Cabela's service and gun quality was headed in the wrong direction long before Bass Pro bought them. Once they got rid of all the knowledgeable gun Library managers it went downhill quickly. You simply can't hire kids off the street with zero old gun knowledge pay them $11.00 per hour and expect to retain any long-time customers. Bass Pro certainly made it worse but zero plus zero is still zero!
The days of cased English shotguns at Cabela's are long gone. But if you want a cheap Turkish semi auto Shotgun then Cabela's is definitely the way to go. The gun Library in each store is full of them!
Every time I brought that up, I was shouted down.
A few years ago, I had physical therapy in a building that was right down the street from the world’s “Outmost Forfeiter”. I stopped in one afternoon to look at the gun library, and the glass cases contained “a rare and valuable collection of”…..
Wait for it….
Remington Zytel plastic stocked nylon 66 .22 rifles. Must have been 50 of those turds.
I shit you not. Under lock and key.
Best,
Ted
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