doublegunshop.com - home Forums General Discussion DoubleGun BBS @ doublegunshop.com Interesting trip to Cabelas Gun Library today

The root of this 'problem' is a big box store (new Benelli, Browning, etc) pretending to be something they aren't with this 'gun library' farce.

The door is open, they are fair game.

Whining when the scam won't play to your benefit is just childish. Grow up.

I made a 'fair' deal with them once. They even allowed me to use their barrel micrometer, which is more than I would even ASK of some 'small box' stores.

Why do people on this website go out of their way to be a prick? That's you, Shotgunjones. Do you just act like a dick for fun?

I'm not whining about their not wanting to make an offer. I'm just pointing out the hypocrisy and ignorance of saying a type of gun is unsafe while they are simultaneously trying to sell the very same type of weapon. If you don't think the gun is safe then stop offering it as a working firearm. That was the entire point of the post. My mistake was including other details to allow the mental midgets on this board an opportunity to start a fight with someone. That's just how things are on here - mostly good people but a decent handful of legitimate peckers who probably aren't loved by anyone and wouldn't be missed by more than 3-4 people if they got hit by a train. Think about that for a minute. It's a common trait among the miserable sob's of this World.

The guy also wasn't just saying something as an excuse not to buy the gun. I took a Meriden A.J. Aubrey Model 53 16ga up there, too. The employees who brought them back up to the front of the store for me were all cooing about what a beautiful gun it is.

Try to find 3 currently available Remington 1894 10ga's with ejectors. Any where. Go. People either like big guns, or they don't. I do. Lots of other people do.

I agree. The store here does have a Manson gauge, although I wouldn't know if anyone knows how to use it. I'd say your statement applies to pretty much any vintage gun, and not just for the big box gun stores. I didn't even know a barrel could be honed out until about 4-5 years ago. Now I'm looking for it 100% of the time. Another local shop threw a couple of my guns up on consignment without ever taking the first measurement. I guess it's "Buyer Beware" every where you go.

I'm the dick?

Did I take a niche gun to Cabela's and troll for suckers?

If it's such a great gun, list it here with a realistic return policy and it will sell for a fair price. List the Aubrey too. That is if your intent is to actually sell these guns and not demonstrate your flawed logic that all damascus guns are safe to shoot.

Cabela's may be smarter than you know.

Again...yes, you are the dick. Also, your reading comprehension is very poor.

"flawed logic that all damascus guns are safe to shoot."
Who said that? Total fabrication on your part.

Smart has nothing to do with it. You are incapable of grasping this concept, so just move along. You are now on my ignore list. Type whatever insults to me you please. I won't be able to see them, not in this thread or any other.

Ahhh...now it all makes sense. I had to click on your profile to activate the ignore feature. I see you are a pilot. That explains your wiseacre attitude. Troll someone else.

Cabela's, we must understand, are 'unethical dumbasses'.

Ethics, loosely defined, can be described as doing the right thing even when people aren't watching. I know this to be so, because I recently had to parrot it back in one of my recurrent training classes to keep my wiseacre flight instructor certificate.

My profession has provided me with the opportunity to observe this truism, and I've buried friends who thought it unimportant.

You displayed your lack of ethics in your first post.

Attempting to take advantage of a possibly untrained and inexperienced store clerk is not something to be proud of, and we have been attempting to point this out... I'm not alone in my disgust.

I've never seen anyone measure wall thickness at a Cabela's store, and I've bought and traded a bunch of guns with them. I know they have people at Sidney who can do it. Elsewhere . . . some of the stores (maybe all?) do have bore and choke gauges now, which didn't used to be the case. A couple of the stores where I've dealt the most keep an "experts list", and will call another Gun Library to get an opinion from a more knowledgeable sxs guy.

Big box stores . . . you just never know. I once offered an SKB sxs to a Scheel's store, on trade. Guy took it back to a manager, came back, said "Sorry, we can't take that gun. It's not on our approved list." Pointed out to him that they had a couple Ithaca SKB's on their rack. "But yours doesn't say Ithaca," he said. He was correct. Mine was a Mitsui-marked gun. Same gun, same SKB manufacture, different importer. And for that matter, the Ithaca still in business at that time was no longer the same Ithaca that had imported the gun. But I figured it was pointless arguing with him since the importer name didn't match, which was the only important thing.

I fail to see why anyone would be concerned with the ethics of the OP's attempt at obtaining from Cabelas a high-ball price for his used gun.

Just think of every widow/daughter who has brought her late husband's/father's guns into Cabelas (or any gun shop, large or small, for that matter). It is borderline criminal the lines those ladies are fed by the fellows behind those gun shop counters.

And then complain about the store's ethics?

I agree there are horse traders to be avoided.