Bass Pro Shops

[Hyunchback]

Coming back from doing some business up north today I decided it was time to stop in to Bass Pro Shops to see what they have.

The place is huge. I imagine if I were in to fishing at all I'd salivate at the thought of being there.

The selection of handguns isn't as varied as one would think. They seemed to have lots more long guns to choose from.

I checked out their prices for the yellow box mega packs of UMC pistol ammunition. They are higher priced for that than either Gander Mountain or Sportsman's Warehouse. They did, however, have them in stock (wonder why they do and places that sell it for less don't?). I also didn't see any selection of SD specific ammo. No boxes of Gold Dots or whatever though maybe they store that elsewhere.

Holster selection was poorer than that found at Gander Mountain.

Selection of targets was a bit better than at SW or GM.

Frankly if you live/work closer to a SW or GM I don't see much reason to go to this place if you aren't in to fishing.

[JohnTRourke]

But did you go in the "Fine Gun Room"
Serious drool inducing.
Some amazing stuff, none of which you can afford, but that's not the point.
Beautiful stuff that you just can't usually see elsewhere in town.

I agree with his feedback though, I wouldn't go by for gun stuff.
Fishing stuff, yeah (I had no idea there were so many fishing poles in the world) and we got a good deal on some hiking boots.

[Hyunchback]

But did you go in the "Fine Gun Room"
Serious drool inducing.
Some amazing stuff, none of which you can afford, but that's not the point.


I didn't dare. Someone had already gotten me in lust with something I could buy! (Wink)

BTW, the Para shoots very, very well for me. Shooting at blank cardboard I created one big, ragged hole with the first rounds. Started making a second hole below it when I shifted point of aim down because I thought too many of the rounds were going through the child's fist sized hole in the chest area of my homemade IDPA target.

It ate 50 semiwadcutters without a hiccup.

[CSM]

Actually I thought their fishing department is junk, all eastern stuff. Their fly fishing stuff is extremely limited. This is not the Carolinas, or Missouri.

I did like their reloading dep't though. :P

[PsychoI3oy]

My wife went there for camping equipment and ended up getting a better deal at sportsman's.

I've been in there once and because I was with her, we spent more time looking at the fish tank than the firearms. I could go back and spend an hour in the 'fine gun room' alone.

[Marlin]

Gee, and I haven't been back. Guess I wasn't really impressed. :roll:


Did I mention, SW is 5 min. from My house. [wink]

[7idl]

It's big, impressive and pricy.

I've only been there 2x and in no hurry to go back. (same as GM)

SW is ok.

[Phillygunner]

Bass Pro is overpriced on most stuff, but I go periodically. The fine gun room is nice. They have been a couple dollars cheaper than gander on prepackaged brass. Generally speaking, I go there to take the kids. They have museum quality taxidermy pieces throughout the entire store. The kids love to be able to get that close to all the various animals. Having said that, last week I bought a gun, some camping equipment and ammo from SW. I gotta say, there a pretty good bunch of guys over there and the prices are better. OH, and let's not forget for the cash challenged among us, SW and Gander have Layaway. :P

[glockmaster]

I agree that they really dont have much of a selection of firearms but the scenery is nice. But they are advertising that a shooting range will be opening up soon, wonder how much they will charge to shoot.

[Phillygunner]

They have had a sign marking the coming of a range since they opened. Have they now begun speaking of a tentative date for it opening? It will be interesting to see if they will have memberships and what the cost will be for walk-ins vs. members. It will also be interesting to see what distances you will be able to shoot in there.

The former K2 had a 100 yard indoor set up. Bass Pro Shops is about a million times larger than K2 was.

Just something to think about.....

Philly

[ruger]

Well, I had never been to a Bass Pro shop before, so I had pretty high expectations. Even relatives of mine were bragging about how awesome Bass Pro was.

I wasnt impressed at all. For shooting equipment, Sportsmans is 100% better.

Well, I take that back. I am sure that if I were a person who was into "fashionable and color coordinated outdoor atire" I would have been much more impressed.

-Ruger now has suspect relatives....

[KarlPMann]

-Ruger now has suspect relatives....


[roll] Maybe you should move them to Boulder. [roll] Karl.

[car-15]

I was just up there yesterday and they had winchester 9mm for $129.99/1000 and 5.7x28 for my ps-90 for $17.99/ box not a bad price on either, and cheaper than gm or sw on the 9mm, neither gm or sw even carries the 5.7x28. they get a thumbs up in my book :cool:

[2ndChildhood]

I just raided my local wally world, got wwb for $119 / 1000 - not great, but cheaper than the last batch I bought.
They only had that price on boxes of 100 and I cleaned them out - got 10 boxes.

Clerk didn't bat an eye, we joked about the plastic bag breaking and spilling bullets all over the floor.

[car-15]

I just raided my local wally world, got wwb for $119 / 1000 - not great, but cheaper than the last batch I bought.
They only had that price on boxes of 100 and I cleaned them out - got 10 boxes.

Clerk didn't bat an eye, we joked about the plastic bag breaking and spilling bullets all over the floor.
a better price, but I refuse to support walmart even if they had it for $50.00/1000 I'd pass :cool:

[2ndChildhood]

a better price, but I refuse to support walmart even if they had it for $50.00/1000 I'd pass :cool:

I'm with you there, I only go in about once or twice a year and then with a specific item in mind versus a big sweep.
Dang place treats their people like dirt, throws their weight around with suppliers, locals that don't want them ...
http://walmartwatch.com/
http://www.wakeupwalmart.com/

[car-15]

a better price, but I refuse to support walmart even if they had it for $50.00/1000 I'd pass :cool:

I'm with you there, I only go in about once or twice a year and then with a specific item in mind versus a big sweep.
Dang place treats their people like dirt, throws their weight around with suppliers, locals that don't want them ...
http://walmartwatch.com/
http://www.wakeupwalmart.com/
I'm a member of the named sites above, and I belive they are a must read for anyone who shops walmart.

[robsterclaw]

I've had Walmarts as my accounts over the last 12 years. I've had receivers that were cool, and some that were tyrants. But the one thing in common the whole time.....the store managers are pricks. Male or female, it didn't matter. They and collectively wlmart as an entity think they are god's gift to consumers, and there fore whatever they say is gospel.

They have recently told us what time we can deliver. They gave us a dock time and if we don't make our 15 minute window, we can't deliver. Oops sorry consumers, no Pepsi products for you, because we think we're god.

They don't care that it costs us alot of money to plan a whole route around their time constraints. It doesn't matter that at 1 of the other stores we deliver to before them, may have problems. A pallet could fall over in the truck and need to be picked up, traffic problems, back ups at a back door. They don't care. And that's because they suck.

[Just Ed]

It's an old thread - but thought I'd share a couple of recent experiences with BassPro.

They will price match anyone - including internet ads (Gander Mountain will do the same).

Over the past 2 months, I've had the gunsmiths at BassPro do some work for me. I'm very pleased.

The first was a barrel and barrel lug install on a Savage Rifle. They also glass bedded the gun and did some minor inletting (the lug didn't fit the stock). Turnaround was 5 days. When I talked to the smith at Gander he gave me a bunch of attitude - almost like he didn't want to deal with it. There's another smith I called in Northern Colorado who shall remain nameless that refused to work on the gun because it was a 7 WSM and he won't work on Winchester Short Mags.

The second experience was the installation of a Vais brake on a Remington 700. They estimated 4 - 6 weeks. They did it in 3 weeks. Very clean work and very reasonably priced.

I'm happy with the work they've done - but honestly, I've never bought a gun from them or shopped there for a gun (I've bought a ton of fishing tackle from them though).

[BulletBill]

It's an old thread - but thought I'd share a couple of recent experiences with BassPro.

They will price match anyone - including internet ads (Gander Mountain will do the same).



Gander Mountain will not match prices with any location over an hours driving distance AND it would appear that the managers have discression on what they will and will not match. Case in point; Gm in Aurora and I was looking at some Burris XTR rings, GM carries them at $66 or $68. Knowing I could get a better deal I pinged Jensen Arms, $39.99. Asked the manager to price match "sure what store has em cheaper?", Jensen says I. Nope sorry won't do it. Uhhh they're well with in an hours drive. Nope sorry I won't match Jensen.

Needsless to say I won't be back to Gander mountain.

[Just Ed]

I'm sorry to hear that. It's strange and you might be right about manager's discretion. Donald is the fishing department manager there and he will price match - just show him the ad. He's even given me the Cabela's price on an item. I know Andy who also works in the fishing department will help you get the better price.

Never tried it in the gun department. Very strange.

[Colorado Osprey]

What we all could really use is an Academy Sports like what's down in the South.
Weekly gun and ammo specials that beat SW, GM and everyone else.

[Eyespeck]

I know this is an old post but I just had to bring it back from the grave.
I took a little trip over to Bass Pro the other evening and I am not impressed. As a matter of fact, I will never do business with them again.

There are plenty of "workers" walking around and standing behind counters but not one of them would openly assist someone like myself. What does that mean, you ask? Look, I'm heavily tattooed and I really never had an issue with people profiling me like I was at Bass Pro. Maybe I should have flashed someone my camo underwear! Then again, maybe that's not the type of service I'd want...

Never again my friends. Never again.