damn right I am, Tul. Good going, you're up next. That hamburg/er connection by unc had me wondering how to say it.
As of now, this is the largest Cabelas in the world, just over 250,000 square feet of every kind of outdoor item you can imagine. Pretty cool place IMO...though I more often support and actually buy more stuff from my locally owned "small business" sports outfitter since the "BAD SIDE" of these huge conglomerate stores is the stress they put on established mom & pop businesses like my perennial hated-store Walmart.
On the plus side, they always support and have programs going on related to wildlife and habitat conservation.
But we really like spending a couple hours at this Cabelas every couple months or so. I take my kids here just to walk around, target shoot and "window" shop...though we almost always buy something we "need", like a crossbow or 4 ft. long blowgun, a new fly fishing outfit, 50 caliber practice slugs...my kid came running up to me with a box of real live .50 caliber bullets and thought I'd get them for him since they looked so cool...this is my kid who got a two day suspension from school last year for bringing "explosives" to school, which in this case were just those little tissue paper poppers you throw on the ground and they pop, but the zero tolerance policy leaves no room for interpretation. He wasn't dumb enough to get caught, but somebody else who got one of the poppers and got caught rated him out...they're still friends.
Cabela's has a distinctive look to their retail operations, a look which turns them into tourist attractions as well as retail stores. The stores are more like cavernous showrooms, bringing the outdoors inside. They feature museum-quality displays of taxidermied wildlife, large aquariums, indoor mountains, and archery ranges. The success of the format is illustrated by the company's showcase store in Hamburg, Pennsylvania, with more than 250,000 square feet (23,000 m2) of floor space.
