Every time I go to Cabelas in Scarborough, I tell myself it’s the last time. Then a few years later something is surprisingly cheap and I go back only to experience purgatory again.
Went to Cabelas to pick up a cheap hunting rifle ordered online. Wait for like 45 minutes to get my gun. The counter employee immediately says that my hunting license (DL does not have physical address) is not sufficient because it is a coyote night hunt license and not the large game license, and is therefore “a stamp, not a license.” Coyote night hunting license says -LICENSE- in large letters at top. Has me leave my place in line, go to customer service desk to have my large game hunting license printed.
I am a former FFL (sole proprietor, not employee of an FFL) and have used the coyote license for physical address at four other FFLs in the state for 4473s. It’s sufficient, but I didn’t argue because there’s no point.
I go back, it’s another half an hour of waiting. At this point I have missed a dinner reservation with my wife. Finally a guy named Chase helps me out and actually does a solid job, is clearly quite knowledgeable about firearms, ammunition, night vision and likely would not have hassled me about the license.
Cabelas blows. Chase deserves a better job and I am going back to kitchen table FFLs and dropshippers until I inevitably forget the pain of this experience in a few years and subject myself to it again.