I'm not sure any particular Cabelas is better or worse than other's with regard to how they retain their Gun Room managers. The East Hartford store had a guy in there when they first opened who wouldn't' come out of his office for anyone. If you had a question, an underling would take it to Joe, who would wave his hands around, like it was the stupidest question he had heard all week, and send the peon back out. He finally got fired. They guy in there now isn't the sharpest cheddar in the pantry, but he's friendly and does what he can.
I remember Jack Dudley from 20 years ago when he was retained to appraise my collection for my ex's divorce atty. He had to write up about 150 pieces, and I left him to do his thing. when it began to get dark, I went downstairs to see if he was still alive and he was not half done. I offered to help him to speed things along, but left the values up to him. We knocked of the rest in an hour and when he showed me what he had written before I came down, I was stunned how little he knew. I will grant you he was a gentleman, but he had had 3 jobs in 3 years and I began to see why. I guess he's learned a fair bit in the past 20 years.
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