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A couple of weeks ago I was in Valdosta and notice out near Sams and Walmart a new Academy Store was being built. That will be great for the area!

On Thursday coming home from Daytona on I-75 I noticed another large new building with the large logs and colors like a BPS going up right there with Sams and Walmart. I just checked the BPS site and there is no mention of it so I emailed a lady from their marketing dept to see if she will say if it is or not.
Has anyone else seen this building and know what is going in it?

I like most of you try to shop local but there isn't much of a choice or selection around Moultrie and Valdosta for fishing and boating stuff.

Gander Mountain

http://www.gandermountain.com/news/2012 ... rint.shtml

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We are getting an Academy here in Tallahassee out Mahan near where the old Sportsman's Warehouse was.
I was at the Bass Pro in Macon and left thinking they don't have anything I can't get at home.

Gander and an Academy 30 minutes from the house. Sweet!!! I hope Gander Mtn's experience in FL has taught them to stock the stuff we need for fishing, boating, and hunting in this area and not have a huge section of rainbow trout flies and salmon eggs.
That will probably be better than a BPS. It seems like they get in any lure that is decent and send it off to China and have a cheap copy made, put their name on it, then quit carrying the original.
Up until now about the only options were Larry's Bait and Tackle in Moultrie and S GA Outdoors in Cairo which is a great store but I don't have any other reason to go to Cairo. Moultrie does have a good gun store but they don't carry much in the way of hunting supplies. Tallahassee is great when I'm going through that area but to just make a shopping trip you are talking 160 miles and a lot of gas.

I like the gander mtn stores more than BPS anyhow. Glad to see it coming to S. GA. I'll still shop at S. GA Outdoors and Kevins though.

I have shopped regularly at the Gander in Ocala, and their selection is great for salt water supplies and firearms. I just hope they do not do stupid stuff like WalMart does. The Wal-Marts in Fl carry salt water stuff, but the ones here in Ga only carry fresh water supplies. I have tried to get their dept's here to carry salt water stuff, and their reply is always the same, "Bentonville controls what we carry." What a bunch of idiots...So, I go to Tally to get fishing supplies....

We will see....

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bman wrote:We are getting an Academy here in Tallahassee out Mahan near where the old Sportsman's Warehouse was.
I was at the Bass Pro in Macon and left thinking they don't have anything I can't get at home.

Is this talk or have they started building? Academy stores are great retailers of all types of outdoor gear and BBQ stuff.. I hope they do put one in Tally.

Academy store is coming. They are building right now on mahan where the old proctor cadillac was.Coming soon sign is up.

Gander is coming on pretty fast. They will be open before Christmas. I hear they are PO'd at the property owners for not disclosing the Academy negotiations.

Neither can replace Heafus!

I'll still do most of my shopping locally in our Mom/Pop stores. These big stores will never sell as cheap and will not have the good up-to-date fishing advice. They will have more stuff which may be helpful.

I agree about the BPS garbage being mostly made in china... I hope that the Gander store will do well, but have not been particularly impressed with them in other locations. The Academy, on the other hand, is GREAT!