BassPro or Cabela's

[A.J. Holst]

On 12/21/2016 at 10:09 PM, Raoul said:

It's more complicated. The guy who was city manager at the time wanted to make his mark as a pro development kinda pol apparently.

I know the folks who made money off of the bigass rock pile and they weren't particularly political, just happened to own one of the last large tracts of land in a city that can't annex into the county, thanks to VA laws.

The idiot savant city council fell for it. Part of that was jealousy of Bristol, TN. Part of it was their thinking they could swindle a few bucks off the deal. And part of it was a desperate development company that was losing their ass and needed badly to do some kind of deal no matter what the actual chances of it working were.

Looks like their most memorable accomplishment will be the bankruptcy of one of the few remaining independent cities in the state of VA.

Ever stay at that no-tell / motel they demo'd? Was in Bristol, all hotels books, rooms available. YIKES. I was a smoker at the time and was choked out...

[Randall53]

Cabela's is my choice over BPS by far, but even Cabela's takes second place behind Academy Sports on my list.

[peejman]

When I used to travel to Detroit regularly for work, I'd visit the Cabelas near Ann Arbor. It makes Bass Pro stores look like a Dollar General.

I got a fair bit of Cabelas brand stuff there, typically on clearance. It all seemed good value so I've since ordered more stuff online and been happy with it. 

I've gotten a lot less from Bass Pro, but most of it was fine too. I'm not much of a fisherman and even though the Cabelas is 500 miles away, it was more convienent than the Bass Pro that's an hour away. 

[et45]

 I live in Chattanooga and we have a Bass Pro and a Cabelas about a mile away in Ga.For reloading supplies Sportsmans Warehouse has both of them beat.

 

[Raoul]

53 minutes ago, et45 said:

 I live in Chattanooga and we have a Bass Pro and a Cabelas about a mile away in Ga.For reloading supplies Sportsmans Warehouse has both of them beat.

 

I was in their store in Columbia recently and I would agree it's a pretty good store. Except for the way they display their handguns for sale. The had S&W revolvers monted out of the box on a pegboard. Like 3 guns jammed together. Craziest thing I've ever seen.