Had to share this with you guys.

[Svashtar]

Po

Powder Valley is also great to deal with when buying powder! They'll actually hold it for you when it comes in if it's back ordered!

Agree! I've bought from a half-dozen places online, and Powder Valley is the best. In the past two years they've also branched out into bullets and brass and a bunch of other stuff. They now also carry Goex black powder. Good outfit.

 

[emp1953]

There's an outfit in Virginia right off Rt 95 called Green Top. I used to stop at Bass Pro near there all the time, No longer, I go to Green Top. I always walk out of there with something that I think I needed.

 

[nicholasjohn]

I also quit shopping at Dicks/Field and Stream because of their gun stance. I really don't like going to Cabela's anymore. The only reason I go to Cabela's is to burn credit card points. Seems after Bass Pro bought Cabela's, they just don't have anything I am really looking for.

Jason

I have found the same thing you have, but what's really annoying is that none of the sales staff knows anything about hunting or shooting. The people who work in the Cabela's store are total morons.

 

[RogerPA]

Dick Stack, the founder of "Dick's, personally sold me my first compound bow (around 1974), at his original store in Binghamton, NY. Back in those days Dicks was a true full-service sporting goods store. If they didn't have it on the shelf, they'd order it for you! (Yes, even GUNS.) Since 1984, when it moved into a 2nd-generation managed company, things started to go downhill, and going public in 2002 pretty much ended that original marketing strategy. Sad to see it go, but the only way we have to voice our opinion it to take our dollars elsewhere. That's my choice also...

 

[Kay0404]

My local Cabelas was great.. Just before the takeover by Basspro (which I used to work in the corporate side, and still have Johnny's phone number in my phone.. ) Bass pro built a new store 2.4 miles from the Cabelas.. 2 weekends ago on Sunday, I was at Cabelas.. Talked to a good friend of mine that is/was the GM.. Everything seemed fine.. Monday morning, all over the local news : Cabelas locked doors Monday morning without notice..
My friend is now an assistant GM at the Basspro until he finds other employment.. He knew nothing about his store being closed until Monday morning at 5am, when he recieved a call from an upper member of management, telling him of his new job at Basspro, ... if he wanted it.
Corporate viewpoints are just numbers, and only numbers.. Main reason I left.. That and living out of hotels and airports.

 

[Tiny Tim]

I quit patronizing Dick's before their latest anti gun attitude. The one by me only catered to sports apparel and rarely had anything I was interested in and no one to help with anything. I honestly dont know how they stay open. Unless their markup in 10,000%, I doubt they make payroll. Never more than 3-4 cars in their lot.

 

[J E Custom]

My local Cabelas was great.. Just before the takeover by Basspro (which I used to work in the corporate side, and still have Johnny's phone number in my phone.. ) Bass pro built a new store 2.4 miles from the Cabelas.. 2 weekends ago on Sunday, I was at Cabelas.. Talked to a good friend of mine that is/was the GM.. Everything seemed fine.. Monday morning, all over the local news : Cabelas locked doors Monday morning without notice..
My friend is now an assistant GM at the Basspro until he finds other employment.. He knew nothing about his store being closed until Monday morning at 5am, when he recieved a call from an upper member of management, telling him of his new job at Basspro, ... if he wanted it.
Corporate viewpoints are just numbers, and only numbers.. Main reason I left.. That and living out of hotels and airports.

I have been involved in several (4) Buyouts of productive and popular company's and non of them turned out good for the bought company and there employees. Even their customer's lost out because of the buy out.

It is unfortunate that one of the best ways to beat your competition, is to buy them out and kill or abandon the company or just let it go to poor service or quality so they will go out of business and allow the business that did a take over or bought them out corner the market.

Sad

J E CUSTOM

 

[KS2506]

Chalk up another anti Dicks, Cabelas and Bass Pro. Did Morrris make the decision to shut down the store at Sidney? If not who did?

 

[Tiny Tim]

I have been involved in several (4) Buyouts of productive and popular company's and non of them turned out good for the bought company and there employees. Even their customer's lost out because of the buy out.

It is unfortunate that one of the best ways to beat your competition, is to buy them out and kill or abandon the company or just let it go to poor service or quality so they will go out of business and allow the business that did a take over or bought them out corner the market.

Sad

J E CUSTOM

Hey, that's one of our mottos, "If you can beat'em, buy 'em." Lol

 

[rewiltshire]

I would rather be catheterized than go to Dick's or Bass Pro for anything gun related, especially after what that merger did to the Cabelas corporation and the good folks from that town that was economically destroyed in the aftermath.

I have Dicks, Cabelas, Bass Pro and Scheels here locally. I shop Scheels, and not because it is just a mile from the house, but I do not like what has happened with the other three. It's my darned money and I will spend it with people I feel support shooting sports and treat you like a respected customer. Any new firearm (new to me that is, not always "new") I get from one of my club members that seems to be able to get me the best deal anyway.

 

[rewiltshire]

I buy my components on line, buy enough so hazmat fee is no problem. MidSouth will ship you 4 jugs of powder for one hazmat fee. I do have a local. seller that does it the old way: put your goods on the counter and pay. The only controlled purchases are guns.

I just wait until someone has a special "No Hazmat Fee" deal. Just bought a bunch of black powder From Graf & Sons. I have a couple of friends in my Rifle & Pistol club that shoot "Black" so we just get together on the order and split the shipping cost.
By the way, Graf & Sons will ship from 4# up to 40# so get with your friends next time you need to order "Hazmat" supplies and watch for the "No Fee" deal and just split the shipping.

 

[Kay0404]

From the meetings I was involved with, in which Johnny was there, he was a very upstanding, INTELLIGENT, man, who as a whole tried to hire people that worked closely with him as smart as, if not smarter than himself. I doubt he has much to do with store closings/openings at this point.. I'm sure it was a panel of CFOs/COOs accounting reports, and more than a few retained lawyers in the room.

 

[rewiltshire]

I have found the same thing you have, but what's really annoying is that none of the sales staff knows anything about hunting or shooting. The people who work in the Cabela's store are total morons.

A few years back, Cabelas had CZ82 on sale. I went to purchase one and the employee told me that the manager was pulling them because some guy looked at one and told the the 'Barrel was burn out". The darn pistol uses polygonal rifling, so the knucklehead did not even know what they were selling

 

[George Dean]

Sidney, Nebraska: And that was one of my favorite stops when travelling I-80, east or west.