Mannie, get your gun! Cabela’s is booming with new stores

What do Rogers, Arkansas, and Christiana, Delaware, have in common?

Both locales are getting new Cabela’s, the iconic destination for hunting, fishing and camping gear.

Even though I have never so much as caught a fish, I have always enjoyed browsing at Cabela’s store in Hamburg, Pa. All those rods and reels. Meat grinders. Big beds for hunting dogs. A cafeteria that serves buffalo. (The meat, that is, not the big, shaggy beast.)

Closer to home, Nebraska-born Cabela’s is building a 110,000-square-foot stone-and-log stand-alone emporium to manliness at Christiana Mall, just north of Nordstrom. Ideal for his and her shopping! Customers can start hunting for buys there in 2014.

Founded in 1961, Cabela’s is in growth mode, with stores opening this year in Arkansas and Washington State. The Cabela herd will expand with seven stores in 2013.

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