Cabelas Prices

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Lee Q. Loader

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Below I copied and pasted a post of mine from last January:

I've bought Unique and Bullseye at Cabela's in the past year and I know they were around $22 or $23 per lb. I was in Cabelas about a week ago looking at powders and saw the prices and walked away. Pistol powders that are usually in the $23 range were over $30 and Rifle powders that I can find just under $30 were over $40! At least I still have Scheel's and Sportsman's Warehouse.
Now what am I going to spend that $200 Cabelas gift certificate on?

Lee Q. Loader, Jan 30, 2019

I was just at the Cabelas on Friday and I used the $200 gift card to buy the chrono I mentioned in another recent thread.
I wanted to repost the above because while I was at Cabelas buying the Chrono, I looked at the powder prices and they were back down to reasonable....weird. I bought a pound of Red Dot for $23.99, Unique, Green Dot, BE 86 were the same. Rifle powders were mostly $29.99. Looks like they got the message on the prices and came back down.
 
Now what am I going to spend that $200 Cabelas gift certificate on?

I have the same problem, if you are a smart shopper, you don’t buy from them except for the once a year deals they offer at the end of November. By the time you calculate in the trouble of going there with 15 bazillion others wanting the same 15 items (because the deal is only on “in stock” items) it’s just not worth it.

I have found, if I buy something with the gift card and return it, they give me cash. Other than that, I just save them and give them away to others as gifts.

I still have a couple saved for the next time they offer the $19/1000 primers with free shipping though.
 
I agree on Cabelas prices. I think they’ve gotten worse since merging with Bass Pro, but may be just my perception and not really the case.

I generally only buy their sales.
 
Now if only they would come down on their firearm prices...highway robbery..
No robbery at all - did you buy a gun at their prices? If not, you didn't get robbed. If you did, then you agreed that the price they charged was fair, so again, no robbery. Just because YOU do not like the pricing model now in play from their parent company BASS Pro doesn't mean a lot of folks agree with you. Both stores sell a LOT of guns
 
They had all the CCI and Winchester varieties and some Remington when I was there Friday. They even had 2 bricks of the "unobtanium" 7 1/2 bench rest primers. I bought those and a pound of the CFE223 powder. Primers were 40.00 a brick and the powder 28.
Oh, and this was the KCK store.
 
No robbery at all - did you buy a gun at their prices? If not, you didn't get robbed. If you did, then you agreed that the price they charged was fair, so again, no robbery. Just because YOU do not like the pricing model now in play from their parent company BASS Pro doesn't mean a lot of folks agree with you. Both stores sell a LOT of guns

Settle down there big chutes!! No I didn’t purchase the gun there because I have a mom and pop store that was more than $200 difference cheaper your right it wasn’t robbery but i feel sorry for the poor suckers that are forced to be price gouged because of either convenience or not knowing any better.
 
I use to buy my primers at Cabela's but no more. Was recently on a trip a couple hours north and stopped in to a place named Recob's Targets. Found Winchester primers for $28.00k so with the Winchester rebate I bought the max allowed by the rebate and came home with 7k WSP.. I won't have to buy small pistol primers for some time now so Cabela's/BPS can GTH. They also use to offer sales on Berry's Bullets at least twice a year. Haven't seen one now since the buy out!

Cabela's is no longer Reloader Friendly and Bass Pro Shops never was!
 
Used to buy a lot of reloading reloading supplies from Cabela's...especially primers and Berry bullets...last order was in 2016 just before Bass Pro bought them out.....haven't bought anything since...don't have the sales they used to and everything else has been raised to Bass Pro prices, expensive. Started going to Cabela's years ago when Bass Pro got expensive so now I just look for deals on the internet. And box stores are wondering why they are loosing business and shutting stores.
 
Used to travel to a town that has a nice Cabelas about once a month. I bought a lot of reloading supplies when I was in town. The prices were decent, but main reason I shopped there was they always had a great inventory of powder, primers and bullets and the people were always super nice. After the Bass Pro Shop merger, things changed drastically. Inventory went way down on all products and prices went way up. Even the employees weren't as nice and you could tell that moral was bad. Im certainly not rich and like a bargain as much as the next guy, but I probably do most of my shopping based on convenience and customer service more so than price. They lost a good customer. Since I've changed to shooting coated cast bullets almost exclusively, I buy bullets online. I have taken my primer and powder business to Sportsmans Warehouse. I go by one every 4-6 weeks and their inventory is almost always well stocked and while prices aren't as cheap as online, I don't have to deal with hazmat and being at home to sign for a package. I try to use Federal primers in my handguns with the bulk being SPP. seing everyone's inventory starting to shrink, I started stocking up at gun shows and everywhere I ran across some. I got about 20K stocked up right now so I'm good for a while.
 
Settle down there big chutes!! No I didn’t purchase the gun there because I have a mom and pop store that was more than $200 difference cheaper your right it wasn’t robbery but i feel sorry for the poor suckers that are forced to be price gouged because of either convenience or not knowing any better.
Again, they are NOT being gouged if they WILLINGLY agreed to pay the asking price - doesn't matter what the goods are, where they are or under what circumstances - and that includes hurricanes and similar. You either agree something is worth the price or it is not.................And as far as someone not knowing any better, the internet has been around a LONG time; if they have chosen to live under a rock the last 30 years, that is on them.
 
Why do you care what their price for a certain item is if you aren't going to it buy from them? I agree they are high priced on a lot of stuff, but I try not to take it as a personal affront. And I suspect they don't take it as a personal affront when I buy elsewhere. ymmv
 
BASS inherited a LOT of debt - as in billions of dollars; they're hoping adding a little more here and there to their pricing will aid in that endeavor; besides the mark-up on gun stuff isn't anywhere near what it is on all of that clothing, camping and fishing gear
 
BASS inherited a LOT of debt - as in billions of dollars; they're hoping adding a little more here and there to their pricing will aid in that endeavor...

It’s a problem for a lot of “walk in” stores these days. Lots of non store front businesses can offer lower prices and easy access with little to zero overhead, just shipping prices. I do have to spread my FFL stuff between my two sole proprietorship business owners that my wife likes to call my “dealers”, she says it like I have an addiction...:)
 
High prices is what killed Gander Mountain IMHO. The last time I was in Cabelas in Wood Bury Minnesota a couple months ago, they were out of the primers I needed. hdbiker
 
Cabelas pricing used to be on the higher end for decent, and they had options other stores didnt. No when I go, their inventory and options are fewer, and I have noticed their customers are fewer too.

It reminds me of a Kmart.
 
High prices is what killed Gander Mountain IMHO. The last time I was in Cabelas in Wood Bury Minnesota a couple months ago, they were out of the primers I needed. hdbiker
And yet, the last time I was at Cabela's,(Friday), they Had the primers that I have not been able to find anywhere... o_O
(Even Online ;))
So, YMMV.
 
Although I agree that Cabelas has outrageous prices on much of their stuff, I didn't see it on their powders. I was there last month and picked up a pound of Autocomp and Titegroup along with some .40S&W and 10mm brass. The powders were around $22 and brass was $19 and $22 for 100 cases. I suppose I could have saved a few bucks online if I was patient and waited for free shipping and free hazmat, but those usually come with a minimum $$ amount. At least Cabelas gives a Veterans discount every day now. Before, they used to only give it on a certain day of the month.
 
Cabelas was always higher than the online places like Graf's, Midsouth, and Brownell's but they carried a very large assortment of "oddball" items that were hard to find in other places. Now they have cut back on the hard-to-find items and are just high-priced. There's almost no reason I can think of to shop there (or Basspro) now.
 
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