The huge racks at Cabela's/Bass Pro
 

I've visited several Bass Pro and Cabela's stores and am in awe of the incredibly huge antlers they have on display. I believed that all the racks were reproductions of real bucks taken. However, I know that Cabela's purchases giant REAL racks for displays in their stores. Do they make replicas of those for displays in their other stores or are most (or all) of them real?

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I think those are real. at my bass pro there is a photo spot where you can get next to a bear and take a pic.

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At Cabelas, most all of them are real. There are a few display though of some famous ones which are replicas, but they are usually marked that way. Cabelas has one full-time guy that all he does is buy mounts for the stores.

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I'd say they're real. Cabela's and Bass Pro own most of the bucks that are in the top 50 typ/nontyp B&C. Bass Pro shops bought the Legendary Whitetails Collection from larry huffman(i think?), and thats over 100 world class deer including the Jordan buck. most of the deer in the stores are real and they buy up alot of racks. I think Bass Pro bought the Albia buck from iowa, im not sure on that though. it could be cabelas, but for sure the thing was sold.

slayer

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Yeah i believe they are mostly real. I know my uncles neighbor was offered several thousand dollars and i believe a replica also, for a buck he shot. but he turned it down for some reason.

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when the wife and I travel,I like to go to Cabelas and Bass-Pro;she likes flea markets and yard sales.
a lot of them are reproductions,I know a lot are. because I have been to there stores in 5 different states and saw some of the same mounts.that is Cabales; and Bas-Pro has some of the same ones in 3 stores I have been in.

cabelas has there own repoduction shop.thats what a guy in a store told me.

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I am in the minority. I think most or at least many are repros. Think about it - how many of those trophies can their be?? And out of those how many people would give them up?? I don't have a problem if they are repros, still a lot of fun to look at.

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If you'd like to see some photos I took at Cabelas in Hamburg, Pa. showing the mounts and displays go to www.cabelas.funtigo.com gg.

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Most repos ,they offered to repro me ,but the wife would not sign the papers

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Most if not all the mounts in Cabela's are reproductions. The stats for the mounts are correct, but the racks are not the real thing.

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Guys, I used to work in the KC Cabelas for a couple of years. Trust me, there are probably between 60-80 deer racks mounted in there, and you can count all the replicas on one hand. And the replicas a marked as if they're replicas. It's easy to find racks that big, when you're a store like Cabelas and have a deep pocket, REALLY EASY. Just look on ebay, practically every week you have a monster authentic(non-replica) buck being sold.

Besides that, people would bring in their deer to the store on a consistent basis to sell them to cabelas. Which in return, most people would get large gift cards. There are a lot of bucks around here that make B&C that don't get recognized until the farmer decides he'd rather have $1200 instead of the rack, and sells to Cabelas. I can't speak for Bass Pro, or even some of the other New Cabela stores, like the ones on the east coast, but majority of the mounts are definately real. Anybody else that says different doesn't know know what they're talking about.

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fatsbucknut. I am also from Pa and i heard about that. It may not be the same deer but my buddy said some guy was letting this big deer grow and he finally had to shoot it because the rack was downsizing. I think the guy was offered like 200,000 dollars or more to make a replica and the guy turned it down.

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they would have to be reproductions they are in every store

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I took my Daughter (7 yrs old) into the BP in MD and she made a comment that put a look of amazement on a cople of employees faces. She was looking at some of the mounts that they had there and turned to me and said in a rather raised voice "daddy, how come they have small mounts on the wall, yours are bigger than those." One individual came up to ma and started asking me about my mounts and wanted to know If I wanted to sell them. I looked at him like, you've got to be kidding me. I politeli declined. Personally I like the look of a couple of 140 - 150 class bucks on my wall as well as a couple of smaller bookend 8 pointers.

My daughter likes to do that when she sees mounts in public stores. She did the exact same thing in the Gander Mountain up the street from me. They asked me if I wanted to display them in the store with a discalimer that all the deer in this panel were taken locally. I declinde that as well.

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Personally I think that most if not all of the full body mounts are the original racks but I have to agree with the famous ones hanging on the wall such as the knife handle buck and the austin buck. I'm sure that in one Cabelas store they have the real rack but the others must be repros from that one.

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Thanks for posting. I buy a lot of stuff from them through the mail. It must be awesome to actually be there.
Chuck

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Just last week I was traveling on business and went into my first Cabella's. What an experience. They had a mini-mountain in the store that apepared to have everything that walks/crawls stuffed on it. This store was in Minnesota. Are they all like this?

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those are probably the real deal

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rick_reno

I've only been to Cabela's in Hamburg(sp) PA. It has mini mountain with everything that ever walked/crawled on it. We now know that at least two Cabela's have that same/similar mountain.

If the one in Hamburg PA wasn't about 4 hrs away i'd be there at least 3-4 times a month spending too much $$money$$.

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Most of the record mounts are reproductions. The smaller mounts all over the store are more than likely real.