Well our town is getting a Dicks Sporting Goods. It is going into an empty space when a large retailer Mervyns closed up a year ago. Not having one around was wondering on what they are like? What they usually carry in the store? Price? Thanks for your input.

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Chinese-made sporting goods at full retail prices.

Shotgun ammo for clay-bird shooting is usually fairly priced.

Watch out for exclusions on firearms-related items with any discount coupon.

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Like Walmart with better dressed employees

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I don't know. The local one is in a mall with "gunbuster" signs, so I don't go in. Their choice.

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I have shopped them before. We had one move in here a couple years ago. They carry a lot of foreign items, are over priced and seldom have what you would want.

They carry long guns but no upper end guns.

Their stores are clean, roomy and sales people are nice enough.

I bought a nice treadmill from them, a case of ammo, a set of ear protectors and a pair of tennis shoes. Any of the items could have been bought cheaper elsewhere.

Consider them to be an upscale Academy Sports.

the one by me only sells shotguns, very very limited with handgun ammo. also they are pricey through out the store.

Dick's does not sell handguns. When they first came to town here, I ran over and was very disappointed. The guy at the gun counter appeared very PO'D when I asked why no handguns. He said "they aren't worth the trouble to sell". The only thing I buy there is ammo when they run a good sale.

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OIher than the occasional ammo sale, no reason to go, unless you want to buy workout clothes at the highest price available. The stores here are two floors. First floor tennis shoes and clothes. Second floor everything else (kayaks, camping, etc.). Gun section no bigger than WalMart.

Dick's must appeal to people with a lot more money than me. There's one down the road a couple town's over.

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I have a Dick's near me. They are always out of the common calibers of ammo or their prices are way too high.
Not a good store for gun related items.
They have a lot of clothing and other sport related items. All their prices on everything can be beaten.
I rarely shop there.

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Wandered into one in a mall one time when I was forced to go with my wife. Had never heard of it before. As said above it was on two levels.
If you think of the whole store as 10' x 10', the sporting goods covered an area 1/2" x 1/2", with fishing 90% of that. The rest was clothes.
Why do they call them sporting goods when all they sell is overpriced chothes?

They are very appropriately named.

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We have a HUGE store in our area.

When it opened, I expected to see a tremendous variety of goods in such a large retail space. Rather than that... you see 10 feet of shelves with hundreds of the same running shirt or other items.

The guns and ammo section is OK but not much more than "OK".

It's always hard to find somebody to help in that department and the prices are not great. I buy most of my range ammo at Walmart.

Oh yeah, and don't ask the clerks a question unless you want to waste breath and time. The only ammo I ever would buy for them was 00 buck for my 12 gauge pump. Everything else, way too expensive. Plus, I would rather go to a gunshop where I could talk to the guy behind the counter, and he knows guns like I do.

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That pretty well sums it up.

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Like Wal Mart...some good stuff...some bad stuff. Some good prices...some not so good. The one I visit opened the doors with a fair sized gun and shooting supply inventory, but again like WalMart, the computers only restock the items that sell well for that location and the gun inventory soon dwindled to very little variety. It doesn't take the computers very long to adjust inventory to local demographics. The only attraction to me now, is the occasional ammo sale.

Pretty much sums it up.

More of a high priced clothing, sports equipment golf stuff store. We have one close to the Gigantic Bass Pro. How it stays in business I have no idea.
Prices are reDickulus.

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We have a Dick's Sporting Goods and Bass Pro very close to one another. They carry some of the same items. It pays to shop around. I bought some ammo boxes at Dick's. They were one dollar cheaper, each, at Dick's. They have good prices on CCI Standard Velocity ammo, too. Much of the merchandise at Bass Pro and Dick's is overpriced. Dick's usually has a big selection of high end shoes. Their prices are the same as everyone else, even on-line.

Several of them in Pittsburgh... good selection of workout stuff and ball sports type stuff. Prices not great, but at market on stuff like that.

Useless for gun related items other than specials on clay busting shotgun shells.

• Expensive, except for close-outs on things like hunting clothing.
• LOUSY service.
• No handguns, and almost nothing handgun related, except ammunition, pistol boxes and rugs.

We briefly had a great chain here, Galyon's. Dick's bought them out and turned them into Dick's. I never patronize Dick's if I can help it.

They carry "fudd" guns. Sometimes an OK sale price (Mossberg 500 w/ two barrels and scope for $275, Marlin 795 .22 for $100), but usually can do better elsewhere.

End-of-season sales on hunting stuff are a fair bet.

I don't go in expecting much, I'm never disappointed!

Just bought three ladder style tree stands from them last weekend. Leftovers from this past deer season. Two 16' two-man stands for $99 each and a 15' one-man stand for $79. Long guns only. Limited selection of ammunition other than shot shells, and that's not great either. No reloading supplies. Entry level safes. Clothing is priced way up there.

About the staff, generally knowledgeable about the department they work in.

Only problem I have had with them was right before Christmas. My Goldenrod died. Figured since they sell safes they would at least have a Goldenrod. NOPE. Sales clerk looked at me like I had three heads when I asked for a Golderod, A.K.A. a safe heater, and had to explain to him what it was and what it did. At first he though I was wanting something to make the safe hot to the touch/electrified to be used as a theft deterrent. Come to think of it that may not be a bad idea.

Class III

Ok for North Face clothes I like, which are the same price no matter where you buy them. Kids have found shoes there too.

I went into a section marked "Guns" or something similar. All I saw were a few shotguns, a few low end rifles, and some .22 rifles. All overpriced. Ammo? I have more in my supply locker.

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Take lots of money. When I checked them out I bought a pair of shoe strings, just for the convenience since I was there. Haven't been back.

I bought a brick of CCI .22 LR standard velocity for 24.99 + tax a couple of weeks ago at Dick's.

No other brick & mortar stores around here have it and you can't touch that price online when shipping is figured in.

I also bought my first kayak from them a few years ago. It was a display model sitting out on the sidewalk, so I "played up" a few of the inevitable scratches it had from handling, etc. They knocked $75 off the price and away to the water I went.

As some have said, they are high on some things so I guess I'm love/hate with them.

I will check back on the CCI, however. They do pretty well in my Model 41.

That is a great price for CCI Standard Velocity! I pay more than that for a 5k case before shipping. I'll be going to Dick's tomorrow... and whatever they have at that price will be coming home with me. Thanks.

As others have noted, your basic "Big Box" retailer. The one near here has a "Sportsmen's Lodge" section where the garden variety-Savage, Mossberg, etc.-guns and ammunition are sold. I haven't been there in a long time, prefer to patronize the long time local gunshops.

They like to advertise sales on ammo they do not have in stock. They do tend to have the simple cheap .22's at good prices. I bought my Mossburg 802 Plinkster bolt action for $90 plus tax.
I bought the kid a gun case this year for Christmas. Was $100 on sale for $40. It was something he liked and I had a $10.00 off coupon....

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The one in San Antonio, covers all sports, heavy on sports clothing, medium quality goods at high prices. Their hunting/fishing department not very complete. I went there once, bought some cheap tennis balls to throw for my dog to fetch. I never bothered going back. Of course they are competing with a Bass Pro shop less than a mile away.

The only time I buy anything from Dick's is when they have something I really need and I can't find it at the other stores!!

Don

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Not my idea of a sporting goods store --- my idea of a sporting goods store is one like I visited as a kid, in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, gateway to the great northern wilderness --- a genuine "outfitting" emporium. This was a place you could (were you so inclined) walk in stark naked, clutching cash, and walk out well-equipped to take on the Canadian Shield's woods, waters, and wildlife, year-round. They stocked everything a woodsman might need or want --- camp gear of all sorts, guns (Winchesters) and ammo, fishing tackle, clothing (think Woolrich Mackinacs, etc.), boots (L.L Bean pacs and Sorels), knives and axes (probably Marbles and K-Bars among them), tents (canvas), tarps, canoes (Peterboroughs, probably, maybe Old Towns, and Grummans for lashing to DeHaviland float plane struts), green cotton-canvas Duluth canoe packs with leather tumplines, snowshoes, and so on and so forth, none of it in blister packs, or made in China. This place even smelled great. Of course, almost everything they once offered has been supplanted by more modern and frankly superior materials and technology, but try to find a similarly stocked "sporting goods" store today --- and please let me know, if you do...

must be location based on what they carry apparently, ours has a pretty good gun selection and the prices aren too horrid. I bought my dad a traditions buckstalker muzzleloader with a starter kit and scope and free bore sighting for 159.99 this year. exact same one is on gander mtn right now for 249.99. the ammo is overpriced but the guns are on par with everyone else around here.

I got a few deals at Dick's through out the years that no other store could match.

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They used to run specials on Rem green box 9mm ammo that were so good that I wasn't bothering to re-load that caliber. <$70/500 out the door.

Those days are gone, of course. I haven't been there in an age.

We had one open in Cedar Rapids 4 years ago.

So far I have bought a lot of shotgun shells for my trap team!

I bought a Mossberg Plinkster for $78.00 on one of their Black Friday sales.

I bought a gun safe last year as I had over filled mine. Nice safe - on sale - and they delivered it and took it down to my basement workshop.

That is it in 4 years!!

Their prices are higher than a cat's back.