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What's your thoughts?

Just came from there. Really impressed w their selection.

Want to keep supporting my LGS but he even tells me when im better off buying at a big store.

Their gun prices were a little high.

What do you think of their selection and prices on ammo and accessories?
 
For firearms, they are OK - IF - you wait for a sale and can parley other deals - like card points, etc. Otherwise they are high for standard guns and very pricey for used. One of my credit cards gives gift certificates as a reward.

For ammo - also wait for sales - unless you want something hard to find and want it now. For gadgets, knives, flashlights, batteries - you can do better on line.

BTW, their cargo pants fall apart quickly.

Fun to go there and browse.

TX is lucky that we have some gun shows with good prices on standard new items.
 
I go there to find some of the ammo I can't find locally. I like to look around.

Academy sports has about the best new gun prices, however they don't have a real big selection, but its decent enough.
 
I've only bought ammo from them. While it's on sale + free shipping, its a pretty super deal that allows me to beat any local prices by a wide margin. From what I 've noticed they don't seem to go more than a couple of months, if even that long, without running a free shipping promotion, usually on orders of $99+ or something like that. IIRC they're currently running a free shipping deal until the end of the holidays.

However since it sounds like you live near a physical store, you can order stuff online and have it shipped to your local store if your local store doesn't stock it, or the online price is way better than the store price.
 
Concur with most of you. You can occasionally get good deals on ammo from Cabelas; however their guns and especially their optics are overpriced. LGS, Sports Authority, and gun shows beat out Cabelas.
On a positive note, Cabelas offers much more when prices are concerned to Gander Mountain.
 
I was really surprised by prices at Farm & Fleet. I got 9mm Blazzer Brass for $9.99

When I see sales at Cabella's it's UMC and the Remington. I lined up a bunch of the Remington L9MM3 on the counter top and there is a ⅛" difference in the shortest and tallest rounds in the box.

I know that's not Cabella's fault, but I'm just saying that when I see deals on ammo at Cabella's - these are the only deals they have.
 
Gander Mountain

I think Gander Mountains gun prices are high I went back there just looking to see if they had gotten a PM9 in. They still didn't have a PM9 there but they still were pricing their CM9 only about $100 less than what I'd seen the PM9 going for at other places.

Their used prices were nuts - a S&W 5906 for $600+ I know there are some fans of the 5906 (didn't someone start a thread on it titled "Best semi-auto ever?"), but it wasn't $600 out the door, it was six-twenty somethig, plus tax, plus IL processing fee. You can get the old 5906 for cheaper than that by a long shot.

I wonder how they move firearms? I would think their inventory would stack up like crazy.
 
You can get some good deals from Cabelas from time to time, just keep checking their web site. The stores will match the web prices.

Otherwise, everything else they sell I have found less expensively on the Internet.

I take my iPhone with me and scan the bar codes of things I see that I like and usually get a better price, usually a lot better, from some online source.
 
C0untZer0- What's an IL processing fee!?

Didn't even look at their used gun prices.

On a new $510 Ruger 22 pistol (LGS price), it was $550 there.

I was pretty impressed with their inventory.

I enjoy the experience of talking with my LGS owner, hearing his calm/reasonable advice and having plenty of time (and quiet) to make my decisions.

Cabelas actually had a "take a number" ticket machine and about 10 guys behind their super long counter. Felt gross.

But, with the LGS's lower prices, I can justify "paying for the buying experience" when that experience really is better with the exception of a more limited selection.
 
I've been a Cabela's customer since the late nineties when I was possessed by surf fishing. I've been a Club Card customer almost as long, I think! The key to Cabela's is to research your major purchases, get a Club Card VISA or a regular shopper's card, to accumulate valuable points and watch for the sales. I've traveled the country back and forth for years and have been to both their Nebraska stores, a MN one, ME, PA, WV and both TX stores. I was coincidentally at the Lehi, UT, store the day it opened and met Jim and Dick Cabela!

At the end of November, because my wife had just gotten her own Club VISA, we went to a VIP event at the Allen, TX store which is a stone's throw from our home. The "VIP" meant you had the card. We went to the store after regular hours, had complimentary wine and snacks, and got the employee pricing on everything. We saved $100 on a shotgun and $45 each on two handguns, bought ridiculously cheap ammo and had a fine time.

Always check the Bargain Cave! which at the NE HQ is a whole warehouse, and watch those sale flyers! I've bought new and used guns from them, as well as my locals guys, for years and sold them a few, too. They have great customer service, too.
 
I've never been inside a Cabela's or bought a gun from them, but I think I own about half of what they sell. That's a slight exaggeration, but at one point 10 or 15 years ago I was getting 3 copies of every catalog - the big ones and the fliers.

The major catalogs they've been sending me since then are hard cover books.

I just bought some jackets, coats and lights and some of it was on sale with big discounts. I got a $39 jacket for $17.99, etc. The parkas were only marked down $20 or $30, but it beats going to the mall and searching for stuff.

And you can't beat their warranty. They refunded the full price of a 3-year-old Columbia Quad something or other duck hunting parka after a shoulder seam leaked. I would have been happy with a partial credit, but no, they refunded the entire $269.

John
 
I've purchased a few guns from Cabela's; mostly one-offs, not normally seen at other stores. I do actively search the Gun Library, just to get an idea of what's availabe, and to check the condition of the arms they sell. I bought a Colt Anaconda, that had the original plastic box, paper work, etc., and I paid about $100 under the market.

They're very conservative in their ratings. That's good. However, the folloiwng link shows just what they have, and how far out of reality they are in some of their pricing. The revolver listed is a S&W Model 28-2, Highway Patrolman. It's been refinished, which is very obvious, and the asking price is $1250. I sent an email to the gun library, advising them of the error. That was three weeks ago, and still no response as of today.

At best, this Model 28 is worth maybe $450, since it's been refinished, and doesn't even have the correct stocks on it. S&W has confirmed that there were 50 satin-finished Model 28's done for the Florida Highway Patrol, but this one's not among them. Cabela's must have been taken on the buy, and they're attempting to recoup their loss.

It comes down to this - They sell a lot to people, who either don't know, or don't care.

http://www.cabelas.com/product/Smith-Wesson-Highway-Patrol-28-2-357/1304087.uts?Ntk=GunLibrary&searchPath=%2Fcatalog%2Fsearch.cmd%3Fform_state%3DsearchForm%26N%3D0%26Ntk%3DGunLibrary%26Ntt%3Dsmith%2Bwesson%2Bpatrol&Ntt=smith+wesson+patrol
 
There is a premium to pay for convenience, some people would rather walk in and get what they want when they want it.
 
I've traveled the country back and forth for years and have been to both their Nebraska stores,
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We have 3 now- Sydney, Kearney and LaVista (Omaha 'burb, with lower sales tax and less hassle re: local gun ordinances)...

I've bought there, if the price is right...... sometimes it's better, sometimes it's not.

Their used racks at the LaVista store have some really good deals sometimes.

CS there is good, and the staff is reasonably well informed.
 
what sarge fathead said!

yes....i have the cabelas card....i use it for gas and groceries and anything
else i buy with plastic

i used to accumulate airline miles, but since redeeming them is so difficult
(it is tough to get the days you want, unless you are really flexible) so now
i am building cabelas points

and, although some of their prices might be high, especially ammo, if you
combine the bulk buy (where you get a 15 dollar ammo can) with one of
the specials they offer...either the free shipping (at least 15$) or the
discount 10/15/20 dollars off, you can get the per round price a bit lower
 
It's on my paper route. (by "paper route" I mean it is one of the stores I'll stop into just about every time I drive by. I'm a deal shopper. The nearest Cabela's is nearly 100 miles from home, but I drive all over the state for work so I get there every couple of weeks. WalMart, SportCo and about 3 dozen gunstores are on my "paper route" list as well).

Every once in a while they have a whopper deal on something I use.
 
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