Re: Bass Pro buys Sportsmans Warehouse
[Re: Flint Lock]
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01/26/21 09:29 AM
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trapdog1
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Bass Pro Shops donated $10,000 to the NTA in 2020. That earns them some business from me. Chump change for an organization like BPS. Another zero or two would make that respectable. Seriously?
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Re: Bass Pro buys Sportsmans Warehouse
[Re: Flint Lock]
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01/26/21 10:08 AM
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BernieB.
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Bass Pro Shops donated $10,000 to the NTA in 2020. That earns them some business from me. Chump change for an organization like BPS. Another zero or two would make that respectable. Yes it's true that $10,000 for them is like you and me taking a $5 out of our wallet but you can't look a gift horse in the mouth. I think they are paying KVD about a quarter million a year. Not many big retailers would take a chance on something so controversial. If we ever really get in a bind, establishing a relationship like that might mean we could go back for $100k when we really need it for something specific.
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Re: Bass Pro buys Sportsmans Warehouse
[Re: Ole]
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01/26/21 10:13 AM
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I sort of like the local gun shop Lolo Sporting Goods where Jack O'Conner got his rifles and and ammo because he lived here. But they don't carry any trapping or fishing gear. The "Black Sheep" is now closed but the North 40 is open and they have some stuff. If it is major trapping stuff I buy here from other trappers or on line at a trappers supply like MB or I can drive a hundred miles to CDA to the Black Sheep or the White Elephant. I can also go to Wally World and pick up the "Cheap stuff . That has the new trail head logo on it "pack it in and throw it out." Just so you know they can't get any Speer bullets or CCI or primers or .22 cartridges when the supplies are low everywhere. Odd since both those manufactures are less than 2 miles away. and we know they would treat there local friends right because they are the "Good Ol' Boys" I read it on a box once. I think I was even given a hat that said that on it. I may have to look for it. Yup I remember when Vernon Speer first started here back in the 50's. My Mom worked there until they had a serious explosion and blew up the primer mixture building. I think that was in the early 60's. Since then they have had so many different company owners I can't even come close to remembering which Alphabet soup owns them now. It does impresses me how many different major manufactures of bullets, .22 cartridges, loaded ammo and primers are made there. They just put them in a different box with a different label on it or this is the way to bullet is build this way but all are built on the same machines often using the same gun powders and primer mixtures.
BETTER WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT BY GAME MANAGERS LISTENING TO "REAL" KNOWLEDGEABLE HUNTERS AND TRAPPERS
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Re: Bass Pro buys Sportsmans Warehouse
[Re: Ole]
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01/26/21 10:13 PM
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This happened a few weeks ago and not much has changed yet at the Sportsman's Warehouse stores. I can't see Scheels selling out yet, it's a family business with a heavy foundation of faith and family values. Scheels is building and expanding pretty fast and they have a great reputation but I'll bet Johnny Morris is coming after them next. Scheels advertises itself as an employee owned company.
"Inflation is always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon". Milton Friedman.
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Re: Bass Pro buys Sportsmans Warehouse
[Re: Ole]
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01/26/21 10:17 PM
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Steven 49er
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My plan this week is to hit the Scheels in Grand Forks, Fargo, Sioux Falls, Sioux City, Omaha. Maybe even Overland Park KS and Lincoln NE.
See how many more primers I can horde lol.
"Inflation is always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon". Milton Friedman.
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Re: Bass Pro buys Sportsmans Warehouse
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01/26/21 10:21 PM
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We have Academy and hopefully you will too someday
Scheels here is pretty good too. I agree but I gotta be out of state to find one. Maybe I will look them up online (thank Gawd Al invented the internet for us)
“What’s good for me may not be good for the weak minded.” Captain Gus McCrae- Texas Rangers
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Re: Bass Pro buys Sportsmans Warehouse
[Re: Ole]
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01/26/21 10:49 PM
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Bob
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I don’t like shopping at any of the big box stores if I can help it. I like to spend my money at the local shops. Better customer service and I can se right where my money is going, back into the community. Might pay an extra five or ten percent for products sometimes, but it’s worth it to me to buy locally and support small businesses.
Plus, go to a local shop and order a specific gun in a specific caliber, the guy across the counter will scour the earth to find one for you. Try getting a basspro employee to do that.
"I have two guns, one for each of ya."
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Re: Bass Pro buys Sportsmans Warehouse
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01/26/21 10:58 PM
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Steven 49er
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I agree but I gotta be out of state to find one. Maybe I will look them up online (thank Gawd Al invented the internet for us)
There is a Scheels store in the Dallas area. I don't imagine that's a short drive for you lol. The Academy's I've been to in KS didn't impress me much. If you are ever in the KC area doing work swing into the Overland Park KS Scheels, it's quite a store.
Last edited by Steven 49er; 01/26/21 10:59 PM.
"Inflation is always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon". Milton Friedman.
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