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| - As a theme park based on the mass murder of adorable forest critters, this place is awesome!
It's unlike any retail store I've ever seen. Outdoorsman, hunter/"sportsman" themed absolutely everything, and no less than 10,000 skulls with antlers, 15 thousand taxidermy-d everythings. Full on outdoor scenes created with dead animals, and there's even a carnival style shooting range. Not real guns, don't get too excited. it's that light beam target practice. Still plenty fun though.
There's a full indoor fish pond complete with a waterfall. Taking the glass elevator down from the second floor, it actually looks like it's submarining into the fish tank. It's pretty great!
As a store, the mass amount of inventory is completely remarkable. They're an entire circus carnival of shopping. Head over to the general store for old fashioned fudge... Take your pick of the 15,000 different types of fishing rods in the fishing section. Get awkwardly aroused by the immensely huge line of hunting rifles. Get yourself some hillbilly styled camoflauge print ANYTHING to go with it. They even have fancy Mason Jars with wine glass stems and ceramic Red Solo Cups for when you need to do yourself some of that them there fancy drinkin'.
So, it's pretty clear that the 'BURTA redneck in me loves all the 'MURICA they've managed to pack into one store... Why only three stars?
Well, unless you need to buy a BBQ, a fly reel, a backpack and a 4x4 quad and probably a set of those Pickup truck testicles all in one trip, I think there are better stores that do each of these elements better and cheaper. For the backpacking style camping gear, I've had better luck with the prices at MEC and the products at Out There. For inexpensive car camping junk you can get the same things at Canadian Tire for 20% or so less. If you want to get motoring, I can't vouch for the service of this department, but if there anything like the *staff in the rest of the store, I think you'd probably have better luck at a place like Bow Cycle...
*After the guy at the front wandered off while talking to another employee without so much as an "I'll be right with you" nod, I decided to try find my way to what I was looking for on my own. Not having any luck I searched for some more staff. No dice. Finally, I found a clump of four of them hanging out in the back of the camping section. I asked a question and was told "it's over there." Couldn't find it... Asked another question "Oh I don't think we have that but it could be over there." Tried again and they were gone. You're welcome, Bass Pro. Either I got your employees to get back to work or got them to loiter somewhere else. My guess is the second since the only one I saw again was busy talking on his cell phone.
While the theme park stuff is seriously well done, when it comes to shopping, I'd rather go to a place that's got either excellent customer service or competitive prices. Bass Pro has neither.
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