Sportsman’s Warehouse acquired by Great American Outdoors Group

[BigHornRam]

The old Husky Sports and gas station in Moscow, Idaho was a great store, but long gone.☹ Owner was a lefty and carried a good supply of left hand bolt rifles. He was also a sheep hunter and had a huge collection of dusty old sheep heads.

 

[hogcarpy]

Does the Cabela's there have the Bargain Cave yet? Haven't been there for a while.

Cabela's has consolidated their Bargain Cave. It is only available in select stores. Example...Omaha's store and several other stores in the Midwest moved all bargain cave items to the Kansas City store.

 

[ShootsManyBullets]

Welcome to the financialization of America

 

[Deleted member 28227]

Welcome to the financialization of America

Rather....Welcome to America

 

[BWALKER77]

Living in Billings, MT I am lucky that we have Scheels and 3 Shiptons that sell loading components. In addition the Fort in Big Timber is awesome and Schnees and Shedhorn are on the way to elk camp.

 

[AlaskaHunter]

The old Husky Sports and gas station in Moscow, Idaho was a great store, but long gone.☹ Owner was a lefty and carried a good supply of left hand bolt rifles. He was also a sheep hunter and had a huge collection of dusty old sheep heads.

I lived in Moscow in the early 1990s and that was my go-to store...sorry to hear it is long gone.

 

[shrapnel]

Living in Billings, MT I am lucky that we have Scheels and 3 Shiptons that sell loading components. In addition the Fort in Big Timber is awesome and Schnees and Shedhorn are on the way to elk camp.

Schnees is worse than what Cabelas has become. You get greeted by a bunch of millennial retards that don’t know the difference between a rifle and an automated vacuum cleaner, telling you that you need to wear a mask to come into the store.

The guns and personnel are gone except for George, who is worth getting past the heckling for, to talk guns and hunting. I don’t know why he stays there...

 

[mrfrie]

Great....not, I absolutely hate ass pro, they royally screwed up Cabelas and now they'll do the same with Sportsman's as they're the walmart of sporting goods, cheap garbage and high prices...I guess I'll do my shopping at Scheels when they finally get it open in Missoula.

Agree 100%

 

[Benfromalbuquerque]

Schnees is worse than what Cabelas has become. You get greeted by a bunch of millennial retards that don’t know the difference between a rifle and an automated vacuum cleaner, telling you that you need to wear a mask to come into the store.

The guns and personnel are gone except for George, who is worth getting past the heckling for, to talk guns and hunting. I don’t know why he stays there...

Sir, speaking on behalf of millennials everywhere, we are not the problem.

 

[shrapnel]

Sir, speaking on behalf of millennials everywhere, we are not the problem.

Post a picture and we can decide from there.

Hair cut to the sidewalls and the top flopped over full of grease with orange and pink highlights, makes it hard to take someone looking like that, very serious...

 

[TOGIE]

Post a picture and we can decide from there.

Hair cut to the sidewalls and the top flopped over full of grease with orange and pink highlights, makes it hard to take someone looking like that, very serious...

you must understand how hard it is to take you seriously, no?

 

[David58]

Schnees is worse than what Cabelas has become. You get greeted by a bunch of millennial retards that don’t know the difference between a rifle and an automated vacuum cleaner, telling you that you need to wear a mask to come into the store.

The guns and personnel are gone except for George, who is worth getting past the heckling for, to talk guns and hunting. I don’t know why he stays there...

It's interesting, we hunter/shoppers take no blame for this. We hunt the dirt-cheapest price we can get, shopping at the local gun shop, Bass Pro, Cabelas, wherever, then hitting Amazon or Sierra Trading post or wherever we find the cheapest price. Millennials are not the basis of this, we old farts are part of the problem. I have wondered why the good clerks stay in the shops, seeing as they get paid somewhere above minimum wage and a large portion of the clientele know far more about the subject that they asked about in the first place and enjoy spewing their smarts all over the person attempting to help.

It's kind of like eating out. One can go to McDonald's, and settle for the quality of food for the sake of price. Or, one can frequent a nice place, and do it as cheap as possible, with little or no tip. Or, ideally, one goes to a place that serves good food, works hard for the business, and you can help maintain that dynamic by tipping well and not whining.

Might we hunter/shoppers have played a part in the decline? And not just Millennials (I am touchy on that one, I have two millennial sons that aren't retards, and work with a bunch of hard working ones that I didn't raise - that ain't the problem).

 

[406dn]

Schnees is worse than what Cabelas has become. You get greeted by a bunch of millennial retards that don’t know the difference between a rifle and an automated vacuum cleaner, telling you that you need to wear a mask to come into the store.

The guns and personnel are gone except for George, who is worth getting past the heckling for, to talk guns and hunting. I don’t know why he stays there...

It seems to me no one should need to be told to put on a mask to go into a store. It's pretty entitled to put store employees and customers at any increased risk, just to avoid wearing a mask.

Also as an old fart,,millennials are just fine in my book. I've never had one be disrespectful to me. Maybe since I respect them, they return the favor.

My pair of Schnee's Hunter II boots are one of my favorite outdoor possessions. I'm almost always having a good day when wearing them.

 

[Sasquatchewan]

Schnees is worse than what Cabelas has become. You get greeted by a bunch of millennial retards that don’t know the difference between a rifle and an automated vacuum cleaner, telling you that you need to wear a mask to come into the store.

The guns and personnel are gone except for George, who is worth getting past the heckling for, to talk guns and hunting. I don’t know why he stays there...

Bitching about younger generations; so hot and edgy.

I wonder why anyone would work/stick around retail with condescending customers coming in an out of the store daily. Sorry those retarded millennial employees who are probably only working there temporarily are not to your satisfaction.

As a millennial who got into hunting with no mentor and researched/experienced a lot by himself (hunting multiple species in multiple Provinces and States), and became an Ammunition and Explosives specialist with the Army at an early age, I love going to those stores and having old dudes ignore me or be completely condescending and pretending they know everything and anything about guns and hunting. The amount of "retarded" older dudes I've seen and heard spew complete BS is ridiculous. I've had guys literally argue with me about things I do for a living because they couldn't concede to being wrong because they most likely had the same attitude towards young people as you do. Still to this day, I still get "lectured" by some older guys in hunting stores when they know nothing about my background, at least the younger employees don't pretend like they know more than I do. Don't get me wrong, I don't know everything and still make A LOT of mistakes, but at least I know that my crap stinks. Getting lectured by guys who have only hunted whitetail over bait in the same area code for 40 years still gives me a chuckle (which is fine btw as long as you are not an ass about it).

 

[Irrelevant]

Post a picture and we can decide from there.

Hair cut to the sidewalls and the top flopped over full of grease with orange and pink highlights, makes it hard to take someone looking like that, very serious...

Don't make us cut off your pension old timer...

 

[Shangobango]

Sad to see the Sportsman's Warehouse get absorbed like Cabela's did. I attended a Scheel's store in Billings last year. Very impressive !! I hope they expand east of the Mississippi.

I couldn't agree more. I was blown away by Scheel's in Billings this fall.

 

[Benfromalbuquerque]

Post a picture and we can decide from there.

Hair cut to the sidewalls and the top flopped over full of grease with orange and pink highlights, makes it hard to take someone looking like that, very serious...

So I put you born about ‘53. Your generation invented stupid hairdo. Don’t even go there. You may want to ignore the enormous social revolution that the Boomers did, but that is revisionist history and not reality.

 

[BWALKER77]

Schnees is worse than what Cabelas has become. You get greeted by a bunch of millennial retards that don’t know the difference between a rifle and an automated vacuum cleaner, telling you that you need to wear a mask to come into the store.

The guns and personnel are gone except for George, who is worth getting past the heckling for, to talk guns and hunting. I don’t know why he stays there...

That's too bad. Last time I was in there, maybe 5 years ago, it was still pretty decent. To be honest I try to avoid downtown Bozeman at all cost.

 

[MTGomer]

Just got on a plane. I bet you can guess which generation can’t figure out how to go through security. Can’t figure out when to board. Can’t figure out where or how to stow their carry on bag or to sit down, and which seat to do it in, while getting out of the isle so others can board.

People under 50 don’t struggle with this easy stuff.

 

[shrapnel]

So I put you born about ‘53. Your generation invented stupid hairdo. Don’t even go there. You may want to ignore the enormous social revolution that the Boomers did, but that is revisionist history and not reality.

You are right, our generation did a lot to taint what the greatest generation before us, prepared for our benefit. There has always been a generation distance, that isn't new.

Pardon my upsetting your generation, but I didn't say all of that generation was retarded, just the ones greeting you at the door. I suppose they have to be somewhere, but if you don't understand the disappointment meeting them at the door, you obviously never entered the Powderhorn when it was a active sporting goods store.

I will admit also that being a millennial doesn't mean you can't understand firearms and hunting, it is just that none in that store do.

The intent of my observation wasn't to upset a generation, just to point out what was and isn't anymore in Downtown Bozeman.