Cabela’s angry Montana customers

January 20, 2008

Most politicians, particularly those in the West, learned long ago that you don't rile up sportsmen without consequences.

Now it appears Cabela's http://www.cabelas.com/home.jsp;jsessionid=CZ5Z5DUVIFY4PLAQBBKSCN3MCAEFMIWE?_requestid=54077 , the giant sporting goods company, has learned the same lesson the hard way. At least it says it has.

Few issues are as important to hunters and anglers as access, especially as more and more wealthy individuals keep buying up prime property and closing it to sportsmen. So when Cabela's associated itself with a concerted effort to sell land for big money as "trophy" property, the backlash should have been predictable.

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