cmort666
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- 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.
Getting a Dicks Sporting Goods in town
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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!
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.
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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.
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The Highlander
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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.
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.
Silver77
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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.
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.
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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.
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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....
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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Harrison
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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
Don
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.
Pappy John
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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.
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!!
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!!
bamacisa
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Their prices are higher than a cat's back.
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