Cabin Fever
 

My wife and I made the cabin fever “rounds” yesterday. Started out at LL Beans in Freeport, then down to Portland for some libation and “Chowdah” at J’s Oysters on the pier in the Old Port. After lunch off to Cabelas and finally Kittery Trading Post.( And yes John, KTP was the best:rolleyes:) But the Gun Library at Cableas was quite amusing. While looking at the ten or so Parkers in the gun cabinet, I spied a tag with “Parker D3” on it, and another with “Parker DH” on it. Close inspection revealed the gun labeled “D3” was actually a PH, and the one labeled “DH” was a GH.:corn:

sounds like ya ll had a very good evening to me would like to visit some of those places mentioned myself someday...yep a grand day for sure...... charlie

Steve, did you get any of those LL Bean decoys?

I understand Jack Dudley is longer with Cabela's, maybe that explains it.

You are correct, he is gone.

...and the Cabela's Gun Library just ain't the same without him. He is a true gentleman and knew his guns very well. They lost a gem when they didn't keep Jack.

They (Cabelas) isn't interested in knowledgeable people. They can hire someone for less money they do it. It's all about the bottom line these days. I bet most of them couldn't tell the difference from a Fox pin gun and a Parker.

I prefer KTP over Cabelas too but they make the similar mistakes, I remember there was once a straight grip DHE labeled GHE there :)

Unfortunately, alot of the people at Cabelas Gun Rooms are not all that informed on older and collectible guns. They just need people to man the store. I was recently discussing a French 16 sxs at the Gun Room in Wheeling and mentioned it was short chambered at 2 1/2" and showed him the barrel flats marked 65mm. He said I was wrong and that 65 is the bore diam. of a 16 ga. They were asking $1200 for the gun and I showed him that the gun rarely goes for over 500 on several internet sites. It appears to be a French guild gun, and no manufacturers name can be found. Needless to say, it is still there.

All the guys do is look at the computer screen as to what they have bought and sold a cerrtain model gun for and make their buy/sell decisions from there.
Just as there is a finite number of collectible vintage guns there are even fewer knowledgeable people working at the big box stores selling them.