[ARCHIVED THREAD] - Bass Pro Shops (Page 1 of 2)
Posted: 11/10/2007 2:57:04 PM EDT
| Any good or bad opinions on Bass Pro Shops? I have never been in one, but a new one is being built a few miles from my house. |
There about the same price wise, Cabelas is really more directed to the hunter/fisherman/camper. Bass Pro has golf clubs and other stuff. They aren't the best place to buy everything that you need but they both have a lot of stuff that you can't find in normal stores and sometimes they have awesome sales. |
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There's not much in the way for someone with BRD. BPS don't sell "evil" rifles. However, they have no problem selling "tactical" handguns at grossly inflated prices. Occasionally the one here has a decent sale on ammo, though. ETA: I will add that the decor at all the BPS stores I have been to has been very nice. It's not a bad store to peruse through. |
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I have two BPS within 30 miles. Good selection, but I have never walked out thinking that I got a killer deal. (Though I got a Savage 22-.250 there for $319 once. Is that killer? meh.) It's a great place to take the kids when the wife is working late. -DawgKiller |
It was the same at Bass Pro. A buddy and I went there on a Saturday afternoon, and I think we spent three or four hours just walking around. The parking lot was slam full. |
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Bass Pro is OK. Like everyone else said its geared mostly towards hunters and does not carry as large a selection as Cabela's. No EBRs at Bass Pro either but again its more for hunting or for the farm/ranch than anything else. They do sell Mini-14s and various Mossberg and Remington HDF type shotguns but they are few and far between. They got ammo but again its not likely any cheaper there than somewhere on the internet. |
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Bass Pro is OK. The only I went to was in Bossier City/Shreveport, LA. Geared towards hunters/recreational fishermen. Good clothing, decent longarm, and scope selection. I bought my Beretta PX4 Storm there. The big fishtank rocks. I want the job of the jackass that gets to fish the aquarium. Never been to a Cabelas. |
What kind of rifle? Their "flagship" store in Springfield, MO doesn't allow EBR's in at their 100 yard indoor "tube" range...or at least they used to not allow them. A friend and I tried to shoot our AR's there a few years ago and they looked down their noses at us and said, "We don't allow THOSE kind of rifles here..."  Spoken like true Fudds.  |
| I went today. The prices are high and the selection of ammo is not very good. They do have a lot of hunting and fishing stuff, but that is also overpriced imo. I see it as a store that the hunters who spen 2 weeks a year in the woods go to. I will just continue to get my ammo and camping stuff at Wal-Mart. |
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The Springfield, MO store is pretty good. Standard overpriced sporting goods store. Columbia and STL, MO have their own policies: 1) Yes that is on sale, however we only have one. No we will not be getting more. 2) Yes that is on sale, but it rings up at the regular price so you need to catch the mistake. 3) Sorry, we're all out. 4) Sorry, not in stock. Rinse and repeat. 
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If only my house had streams and ponds like that store did 
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Man, I dunno about some of y'all holding beef against Bass Pro. Why would Bass Pro carry inventory they aren't likely to sell, or sell as many of compared to hunting rifles and shotguns, or "Fudd guns" and some of y'all call them. Also, I'm sure there's Bass Pro stores in states that have their own proprietary AWBs. Bass Pro probably don't want no part of that...maybe it's a company policy in the name of those stores behind the cheese curtain, like in California or in certain states in the northeast, that all stores not mess with guns that may be covered under certain state AWBs regardless of what state they're in. Makes it easier for them. Add that people are likely to get a better deal on a complete EBR from a local store, or buy a stripped lower off the equipment exchange at AR15.com for like $120 or so after their FFL transfers it to them, and then buy every other piece they need to build a complete rifle off the internet and have it shipped straight to their house...it isn't practical for Bass Pro to deal in stuff like that. They do just fine selling dem dar Fudd guns to ol' Elmer so he can whack that wascally wabbit. [mild rant] "It's a Fudd store," and "they don't sell ARs." Well, no shit. The typical Bass Pro customer out looking for a rifle is probably wanting to bag him a deer, he might shoot a box of ammo a year between sighting in and actually hunting. He probably doesn't even know how to field strip and clean an AR15. He's probably old school - maybe he's an older guy that's been hunting across the country longer than you or I have been alive. Or maybe he's a younger guy that hunted with his dad when he was a kid and wants to take it back up again, maybe he has a son he wants to take hunting. Whoever he is, he's still putting rounds downrange every now and then, and just 'cause his tastes in firearms and what he does with them is different than yours, you call him a Fudd and look at him like he's a piece of shit, or just 'cause he doesn't own eleven ARs in different configurations and he isn't sitting on 15,000 rounds of M193 in his basement. He isn't any worse than you or me, he's just ignorant. Not stupid, ignorant. There is a difference. Man, I swear. The whole "Fudd" thing is fucking stupid, whether it's about Bass Pro or the guy sighting his deer rifle in at the public range. Some of y'all talk all this shit about Fudds and Fudd stores and such, but those Fudds vote too. Try talking to them and referring to them like they're human beings and fellow shooters at the range, show 'em your neat toys and how much fun they can be, instead of showering them with brass from a 30 round mag dump out of your M4orgery while you're doing your super tactical playground ninja shit. Maybe they're having trouble getting on paper with their deer rifles...help them. Maybe they're being flat out stupid and dangerous. Educate them. Or if you're at Bass Pro and some guy behind the counter is saying something ignorant, like "you don't need one of those AR15 assault rifle things, they're just for killing people," educate him. Change the trend. Mumbling, "Stupid Fudd" as you walk away isn't accomplishing shit for anyone. You're being part of the problem if you do that, be part of the solution instead. I know it's not gonna work for everyone, but Jesus, try! That's all I ask. ETA - A guy that used to work with me is probably what you people would have considered a hard core "Fudd." He owned Remington 700s, 1100 shotguns for trap and skeet, wouldn't shut up about deer hunting, saw no need for civvies to own "semi automatic assault rifles." He wanted some help sighting in his Marlin 1895 (gasp, another Fudd gun!) since I had a spotting scope and some free time, so I said sure, what the hell. Grabbed my M1A and my AR so I could do a little offhand practice while I was there. I let him run a few mags through both, and later that afternoon, we were at the local funstore, picking him up a stripped lower, a parts kit, and some mags and ammo. The upper came the following month. Do something. Don't sit there idly and mutter, "Stupid Fudd, he'll never understand." Try to make a change. [/rant] |
Thank you--AKA +1 |
I call BS. $10 says they don't stock tactical stuff because someone in charge is a Zumbo. Stores that have ARs, tactical knives, various accessories SELL them. Enough people lay down cash (as evidenced by the size of this site) that the MOST likely reason they don't carry them is because they are icky. Me chatting with some $8/hr sales guy is not going to amount to a hill of beans in that regard. |
Have you tried? |
Not that he's the official spokesperson for Bass Pro but one of their employees at the Kansas City, KS store told me the following: "We don't stock short barreled pistols like 2" short barreled .38s and them assault rifles because we don't want to be known as a paramilitary store." This was in June of this year when I stopped by while on a business trip. The gun counter guy was talking to another customer while I was standing nearby. Customer was looking for a small .38 to conceal carry after getting his CCW permit. I listened in as the guy told him they didn't carry those things and I asked why. That was the answer I got. That is one guy working at one gun counter in one store across the entire chain. They are very PC with the trigger locks as I wanted to try the new S&W M&P trigger and I was told that they don't take them off. I just flew home and went to my local gun shop where I rented one and shot it (and I liked it too!) Anyway, they are PC but they still sell a shitload of guns and this also includes pistols that in most places aren't allowed to hunt with. If I want an EBR store I look somewhere else anyway. ETA: Thanks to some asshats on the left EBRs, while popular, are too controversial to be "mainstream" at this time. |
If that is not the market they cater to, why stock them? It would be like Victorias Secret stocking men's underoos; it just isn't the market the store caters to. |
I don't hear anyone whining about me calling VS a skinny chick store. The cheese and whine came in when I pointed out that BP is a Fudd store. I am not whining about them, I am a capitalist- they can sell whatever they want. I was just making a correct observation. |
Re-reading this, and I'm not picking on you, here's what I'm trying to say: I like my ARs. I like my M1A. I like the idea that I can go out and buy more of them. I like that I can hang evil, frightening things like flash suppressors and bayonet lugs on them. I like that I however don't like the idea that when this election rolls around, a nation of shooters would be divided because the tacticool kids don't like the Fudds, and the Fudds don't like the tacticool kids. Just because we're shooting different rifles at different things for different purposes. I intend to do everything I can within my power to change that. How 'bout you? |
Well, considering I spend countless hours of my own time and alot of my own money to bring the shooting community together to work for better gun laws, I think I have a little something to say for myself. louisianacarry.org/ |
And you indeed do, very nice work on your site, BTW. Just try not to look at the guys at Bass Pro or the guys shooting their ten rounds for the year sighting in a Marlin 336 as a "Fudd." We're all in this together. |
So, not selling AR type rifles makes them "fudds"? Newsflash--the AR-15/tacticool thing isn't for everyone. Plenty of non-"fudds" do not own ARs. This whole "fudd" bullshit by AR owners is just as bad as the 10 shot a year guys looking down at the AR owners. Disclaimer: I claim no loyalty toward Bass Pro, and I do own 1.5 ARs. I am neither tacticool nor a fudd.  
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I don't hold anything against anyone as long as they don't vote or legislate my rights away. I am not out rallying against BP. However, I only spend $$ there if I can't find something (like a specific model Surefire) somewhere that DOES sell my black weapons. Their choice, my choice, free country (so to speak). I do get a little tired of the ten-shot-a-year guys at my range, though. Not all of them, but literally 5 out of 6 [as opposed to 1 out of 6 tactical shooters) of them completely ignore the clearly posted safety rules. And, FYI (since I am a certified RSO), I talk to them very respectfully and get them to change their activities. I just worry about what goes on when I or another RSA are not there. |
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That's what I am talking about. I suspected as much. How do you think those people are going to vote? Will they mind a ban on magazines of over ten rounds? Thought not. The 2A is not bout hunting. Hunting is not bad, but weapons ownership/proficiency is a civic duty. Those who interfere with that are aiding and abetting the enemy. That is a fact. What I am saying is that just because someone owns a gun does not mean we are on the same team. My team is the security of a free State, and the defense of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Few are truly on that team nowadays, it seems. |
Did you ask them, "Why not?" Did you mention that despite the differences in appearance and operating system, they're chambered in the same cartridge as those Remington 700 varmint rifles over there? |
If this is what you think, then we truly are lost.  If you were on that range with your AR, and some Bass Pro dude says "We don't allow those rifles on our range," what would you say? |