Bass Pro Bucks?

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silenthunterstudios

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I'll be at Bass Pro in Harrisburg PA tomorrow. I'd like to check out a Buck Prince or Knight model, do they have the smaller lockbacks or slipjoints in their high end line? I know Cabelas has their S30V line, didn't Buck have a 154CM line at Bass Pro?
 
A Case brown bone peanut. :D.

Lot of nice custom shop style Bucks, but didn't get any. I saw some nice ones at Country Knives too, but didn't want to spend the money on them. Going to try to hit Cabelas' in Hamburg PA before the summer is over, those S30V Bucks are high on my list.
 
Last time I was in Cabela's (a few months ago) they didn't have much in the way of Bucks.

Three or four classics (110 and 119 type) and something fancy that had been ruined by punching an animal shaped hole through the blade.

I assume there's way more profit in brand names that are now made in China so Bucks are not stocked as heavily as in days gone by.
 
BassPro's in-store retail prices are nothing to get excited about. Brand name cutlery items like Buck, Case, SOG, even Gerber tend to be MSRP+ and you can normally do much better at other mass market retailers, and certainly much better on-line at places like Amazon. I'd love one of their bone handled 119s but I'm not about to pay what they ask.

Retailers like BassPro and Cabelas are selling the store 'experience', and the price of entry is retail-plus pricing on many non-house brand items. I rarely buy from either retailer these days unless the item is on sale or it's something I really, really need and can't get elsewhere.

That said, they always seem to have something I need on sale. I usually don't know I need it until I get in the store and stumble on it. Funny how that is...
 
If your local Cabelas doesn't have the Buck you want, you can probably order it from their online store.
 
Retailers like BassPro and Cabelas are selling the store 'experience', and the price of entry is retail-plus pricing on many non-house brand items.
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Exactly. I don't have a Bass Pro, but I'm familiar with Cabela's.

I'm old, but I'm still enough of a kid to soak up and enjoy that "store experience." Browsing and marveling at some of the new equipment......looking at and fondling the classic guns in the "Gun Library"........knives, canoes, paddles, binoculars, cameras.......just being able to do this is worth something.

That's why I buy a few of the better quality things they sell. I appreciate them providing an atmosphere that takes me back to better times.

I usually have a relaxed lunch there and just immerse myself in that little world--a hunter's world that is fragile and will not be with us forever.
 
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