Bass Pro Shops to Acquire Cabelas

   / Bass Pro Shops to Acquire Cabelas #11  
I spent many an hour with my nose buried in that catalog when I was a kid. Herters in Waseca MN.
Yup! Me too! That catalog was thicker than the Sears catalog (probably explains why they went belly up). I cleaned up my tackle boxes last week and see that I still have some of their stuff in there. A friend of mine still has one of their catalogs on his coffee table (getting rather fragile now).
 
   / Bass Pro Shops to Acquire Cabelas #12  
We used to order handguns, and knives from them. Of course everything they had was "model perfect" or some such moniker. And I thought us southern hillbillies were windbags. We could not hold a candle to those northern boys.:)
But it was interesting reading, and the JP Sauer and sons revolvers we ordered weren't too bad, and the price sure was right.
 
   / Bass Pro Shops to Acquire Cabelas #13  
I don't think their respective territories overlap that much (BassPro largely southern, Cabela's in the north). Gander Mountain may be at risk though.

Brand new BassPro AND Cabela's about 5 miles from each other down here. I see one of them closing even though just opened.
 
   / Bass Pro Shops to Acquire Cabelas #14  
I really like cabela's, Bass Pro not so much.
 
   / Bass Pro Shops to Acquire Cabelas #15  
Cabelas is geared more toward serious western hunters. Things like optics, hunting clothing, boots, tents, etc are at a different level. Bass Pro is geared more toward cheap hunting clothing, blinds, corn flingers, hand warmers, scent spray, tree stand, plastic rattling horns, doe in heat, trail cameras, etc for a Southern and Eastern hunter who rarely gets more than a 200 yards from the pickup. You won't find a guide or serious elk hunter in Wyoming who uses some Bass Pro binoculars or red head clothes/boots while Cabelas Euro optics and guide gear/boots is among the best in the world like Swaro, Zeiss, Sitka, UA, Kenetrek, etc...
 
   / Bass Pro Shops to Acquire Cabelas #16  
Red head boots are terrible.
 

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