I had some time to kill on my way to the airport before my trip to Tucson a couple weeks ago and saw this Performance Center 686-5 at Cabelas in Scarborough that I have to admit has been in my head ever since I saw it. It is a 7-shot, unfluted cylinder with some kind of an interchangable weight system possibly? At least I think thats what it is. I'm not sure if it's cut for moon clips or not and I can't find the gun in the Standard Catalog. But it does look like a really cool gun. If anyone of you have one and could tell me a little about it and how you like it I would sure appreciate it. Scarboroughs about a 1:45 minute drive from my house and I hate to drive down just to look at it again. But once I get something in my head sometimes it's hard to get it out! The price does seem quite high as Cabelas always does, the want $1200 but sometimes they will negotiate and I've got a 4013 TSW that I've been thinking of trading away.......Opinions anyone?
So I jumped in my truck and drove the 1 hour 45 minutes to Cabelas today to check this out. Headed for the gun library. Two guys were working but neither one seemed to want to work with me. I waited about half an hour and another customer came in with some guns to trade. The salesman ignored me and went right over to help him out and disappeared into the back room to see what his guns were worth. I stuck my head in the door and told them that I was interested in the PC 686 and was told that they were backed up right now and they would be with me as soon as they could. I was tempted to leave right then but I had driven all the way down so I figured I would hang around a little longer. About that time another customer came in with 4 rifles he wanted to sell. Once again I was ignored and he was helped right out, and once again the salesman disappeared into the back room with his guns. By now I'm getting pretty annoyed, and I figured I would give them about 15 more minutes and then I was leaving. About 13 minutes later one of the salesman finally came out to see what I wanted, but you could tell by his attitude that I was just an annoyance. The funny thing is that I had every intention of bringing this gun home with me! So I checked it out, the gun was in great shape, but it was used. It was not in the original PC case, it was in a generic blue plastic case with a broken latch and had no papers or accessories. I pointed these things out and told them that at $1200, which I figure was beyond top dollar, the gun should be anib which this gun clearly was not. They were not interested in any negotiations whatsoever and the whole incident left me with some pretty negative feeling towards Cabelas and I can say that I will probably never go back.
So I jumped in my truck and drove the 1 hour 45 minutes to Cabelas today to check this out. Headed for the gun library. Two guys were working but neither one seemed to want to work with me. I waited about half an hour and another customer came in with some guns to trade. The salesman ignored me and went right over to help him out and disappeared into the back room to see what his guns were worth. I stuck my head in the door and told them that I was interested in the PC 686 and was told that they were backed up right now and they would be with me as soon as they could. I was tempted to leave right then but I had driven all the way down so I figured I would hang around a little longer. About that time another customer came in with 4 rifles he wanted to sell. Once again I was ignored and he was helped right out, and once again the salesman disappeared into the back room with his guns. By now I'm getting pretty annoyed, and I figured I would give them about 15 more minutes and then I was leaving. About 13 minutes later one of the salesman finally came out to see what I wanted, but you could tell by his attitude that I was just an annoyance. The funny thing is that I had every intention of bringing this gun home with me! So I checked it out, the gun was in great shape, but it was used. It was not in the original PC case, it was in a generic blue plastic case with a broken latch and had no papers or accessories. I pointed these things out and told them that at $1200, which I figure was beyond top dollar, the gun should be anib which this gun clearly was not. They were not interested in any negotiations whatsoever and the whole incident left me with some pretty negative feeling towards Cabelas and I can say that I will probably never go back.
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