Cabela's Sportman's Outfitters Store

NEVER...have I seen so many dead, stuffed animals in one place in my entire life!

Cabela's, a huge (178,000 square feet!) "sportsman's outfitter's" store.  You can find everything (except the 12v cooler we wanted to buy) and guns, guns, guns GALORE...if you're into guns and killing animals.

Don't get me wrong, I don't hold it against anyone if you want to hunt, it's just something I couldn't see myself doing:  I'd go vegetarian first.

Hmmmm...

Getting "camouflage," in my opinion, is NOT hunting, nor is "baiting and waiting" high up in a tree.  The Native Americans were "true" hunters and they didn't rely on all this stuff.

Anyway, there was a huge display of all these animals, and I have to admit that it was very tastefully done...all the animals on display were real, with the exception of the African bull elephant, the rhino and the bald eagle (gee, how nice of them).

Polar bear and musk ox. 

Lynx. 

"Hey, I think it's a male..." 

Goofy (dead) prairie dog stuffed in a holde.
Sad.

Bull sea lion, on loan from the Smithsonian (thanks, Sarah!), they weigh between 1200-2500 lbs. 

A spectacular animal, shot in Alaska.

A real Piper Cub flying thru the store.
Paul said it's a favorite of animal killers...
see the moose rack on the wing?

Cabela's also had two displays of bear traps, but I won't get into talking about those...