That's what happened to me this afternoon when I took my new NEF 204 Ruger, enclosed in case, to the local Dick's Sporting Goods store to have a scope mounted. As I was passing a cashier I was asked: Is that a rifle that you want to have scoped? When I replied in the affirmative I was asked for my name, phone number, and serial number of rifle which was logged in. Then I had to wait until someone from the Hunting Department came to escort me. Dick's has had the policy of escorting customers to the cash register when they have purhased firearms but this is a new polcy sometime within the last six months because back in April I had an old Savage scoped and just walked right to the Hunting Department without anyone asking anything.
Sign-in and Wait for Your Escort Please
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Standing Wolf
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From everything I've read, Dick's distrusts firearms owners. I don't ever do business with enterprises that distrust me.
Car Knocker
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Interesting. Wonder how they deal with CCW? If I went in and told them I was carrying, would I get a personal servant to carry my stuff around as I wandered through the store?
Jason Demond
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Take your business elsewhere, that's what I do.
anapex
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I just bought a Rossi matched pair for my oldests birthday this month from Dick's 80 bucks off for a .22 and 20 gauge pair. But they wanted a form filled out with a question on it asking how many children I had under 18 in my house. They got an answer of "None of Dick's business" and I passed on getting a second Rossi from them for my youngest. Nothing like dumbass questions to scare customers away.
Notch
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The Galliens (sp?) around here are gettin rid of all their handguns now that Dicks has bought them...( no sales, the bastads...) What kind of sporting goods place is THAT?
Light Storm
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I work at dicks and encourage everyone not to do business there. The company is solid anti gun. (kinda funny since they sell them)
Academy Sports in Texas is also bad about escorting gun buyers to the cash register. And they don't want to take those disposable handcuff type thingies off the triggers so one can try the action on a gun. Some autos are "taped off"altogther.
I'm not buying any gun I can't even cycle the action on! Fortunately, one salesman from whom I've bought a couple of guns will let me conduct a proper exam if his boss isn't around.
In fairness, when I bought my CZ75B, the boss seemed almost apologetic about having to escort me to the register.
It's bad enough having to deal with ignorant, arrogant store personnel in many cases. Treating the customer like a crook is adding insult to injury.
Lone Star
I'm not buying any gun I can't even cycle the action on! Fortunately, one salesman from whom I've bought a couple of guns will let me conduct a proper exam if his boss isn't around.
In fairness, when I bought my CZ75B, the boss seemed almost apologetic about having to escort me to the register.
It's bad enough having to deal with ignorant, arrogant store personnel in many cases. Treating the customer like a crook is adding insult to injury.
Lone Star
Black Snowman
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Cabela's here in KC has similar policies. The guys in the gun department hate them and the upper management admites it's and entirely feel-good policy for all their (much more profitable) clothes shoppers who don't have an interest in the guns.
They used to not let the locks off the guns but now that they've raised their prices above all the regular local gun stores they've loosened up a bit and let you give the gun a good once-over. Now if they would just stop banging up the guns when they stored them at night and stop letting the rifles in the racks start to rust and bring their prices back down I might actually buy from them. . .
They used to not let the locks off the guns but now that they've raised their prices above all the regular local gun stores they've loosened up a bit and let you give the gun a good once-over. Now if they would just stop banging up the guns when they stored them at night and stop letting the rifles in the racks start to rust and bring their prices back down I might actually buy from them. . .
Academy won't take the trigger locks off the display guns but once you start the purchase process they will let you handle and operate the particular gun you are buying to make sure it operates properly.
They still escort you to the door. Last time I was there they had a NIB 10/22 with the price mismarked for $90
The store manager walked it up to the registers for me and had to stand in line for 45 min while his incompetant cashier tried to do a return on used jock straps.
They still escort you to the door. Last time I was there they had a NIB 10/22 with the price mismarked for $90
The store manager walked it up to the registers for me and had to stand in line for 45 min while his incompetant cashier tried to do a return on used jock straps.
SJG26
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Cabelas PA does the same......
Bought my PM9 there some weeks back. I laughed at their obscene price($700) for the PM9-DLC w/ nite-sights.
Cabelas WILL price match if :
The other shop has it in stock and
The other shop is less than 50 miles away.( A BS policy there)
I said "Hell - I can get it for $590 at DnR Sports, just over 60 miles away"
I told the sales guy, it's your call - for a $100 it was worh the drive - it's your sale to lose.
He caved - I bought it on the spot.
He then said he had to "escort" me out of the store- policy ya know. I said " Remember the CCW permit I used for I.D.?? What sense does your policy make?"
His eyes got a little big when the reality struck !
Cabelas is a good place for hands on - lots of nice stuff in stock - but I mostly support the local shops!
Bought my PM9 there some weeks back. I laughed at their obscene price($700) for the PM9-DLC w/ nite-sights.
Cabelas WILL price match if :
The other shop has it in stock and
The other shop is less than 50 miles away.( A BS policy there)
I said "Hell - I can get it for $590 at DnR Sports, just over 60 miles away"
I told the sales guy, it's your call - for a $100 it was worh the drive - it's your sale to lose.
He caved - I bought it on the spot.
He then said he had to "escort" me out of the store- policy ya know. I said " Remember the CCW permit I used for I.D.?? What sense does your policy make?"
His eyes got a little big when the reality struck
!Cabelas is a good place for hands on - lots of nice stuff in stock - but I mostly support the local shops!
larry_minn
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I bought some ammo at a LARGE store and the clerk said he had to (escort) me to front. I continued my shopping and let him carry the stuff. He finally said he would put it up front for me to pick up. I had already paid so I refused to let him put MY ammo loose up front. He just put it into my cart.
You think Dick's is bad, try and use the range at a bass pro shop... They nylon tie everything and put trigger locks on everything (even lever action rifle's???) Then you are watched as you go to the range. Once there, you go through the third degree and get the reverse process to fire. Then they do it all over agian to leave. Slow fire only on the range. They don't do that with a bow...
I find other shooting area's....
I find other shooting area's....
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