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Bass Pro Shops just opened a mega wildlife attraction

Sunday, 1 October 2017, 14:00 MJA Uncategorized 28

CNBC: It’s been a wild couple of weeks for Bass Pro Shops founder Johnny Morris, who just last week completed a $4.5 billion acquisition of rival outdoor retailer Cabela’s.

Around the same time, former U.S. presidents Jimmy Carter and George W. Bush, along with a boatload of actors, country western stars and outdoor enthusiasts, helped Morris celebrate the opening of his 350,000-square-foot Wonders of Wildlife (WOW) National Museum & Aquarium in Springfield, Missouri.

“It’s been like a whirlwind,” Morris told CNBC a day before the museum opened. Morris started his business in 1972, selling fishing gear out of a corner of his father’s Springfield, MO liquor store.

Fast forward to the present day, and “two of the biggest things in my life are happening at once,” he added. “It was not by design, I’ll tell you that.”

It took more than 10 years to complete the 350,000-square-foot WOW compound adjacent to the sprawling Bass Pro Shops National Headquarters, about an hour’s drive from Branson. CNBC recently took a tour of the facility, which is billed as being larger than even the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History.  read more

h/t Conservative Angle.

Go see!

Wonders Of Wildlife.org

 

SNIP: I love wildlife and natural history museums.    I’m no where near this one, so if  you’ve been, let me know!

28 Comments on Bass Pro Shops just opened a mega wildlife attraction

  3. FISHING IS FOR LOSERS

    I have no idea, a what part of the fishing experience is enjoyable? The boredom, the expensive equipment, the drinking b/c of boredom, the hooking an animal through its eye and watching it jump out of the water in terror? The bashing of its brains out in the boat?

    If you’re hungry, I gotchya, do what you gotta do, but this “sport” is for psychopaths. “Yee Haw Cletus! Did you see that one fight for its life!? I musta hooked ’em real good-like! I can’t wait for Monday to go back to work at the beef slaughtering plant–FUN!”

  4. I used to get my gear at LL Bean and at Gander Mtn, sometimes at Sportsmans Guide. Before that it was REI. Sometimes you can find good deals at Camping World.
    Can’t afford LL Bean anymore. REI has been taken over by hipsters, and Gander Mtn was bought by Cabelas.
    Local Sportmart and Sports Chalet stores closed recently but a Dick’s store just opened.
    No love for Big 5, Turner’s or Wally mart.

    Not familiar w/ Bass Pro- may be some good deals during the transition. Or, they might keep Cabelas as a separate entity.
    We shall see…

  5. Big sporting goods stores bad. Spending a weekend with my kids by a stream fishing good
    Caught what we needed and tossed the others back in.miss the time we spent together camping out. Good memories.

  8. “FISHING IS FOR LOSERS”

    I don’t think you’ve actually ever been fishing. Certainly not Bass Fishing. If you go with my I’ll start your day off with a 75 mph romp across the water that will most likely leave pinch marks in my passenger seat. This will happen occasionally through out the day. Fishing itself is an athletic event. Your constantly flippin, pitchen, cranking, or slow rolling a blade. Once we catch a fish, we pull him on board, admire him, kiss him on the nose and put him back in the water. Because after all we are conservationists.

  15. If you have never been to Pollock Rip, off the elbow of Cape Cod striper fishing you haven’t lived yet. Its stunningly beautiful and there are no houses on shore.
    The sea bottom goes goes from 40 feet deep to 4, back to 40 which creates curls and you can see the striped bass swimming in those curls. It’s just unbelievable how great that place is, even if you strike out. Which is rare.

    And if you have never tasted a fresh caught striper you have no idea.

    Dammit I want to pack up and head there right now.

  16. Oh and striped bass get to be well over 40 inches long.
    When I lived in Cape the minimum was 36 inches. I put back lots of nice fish.

    And the fishermen, including myself, rebuilt the herring runs voluntarily. They are a food source for stripers, bluefish and other species. Spent many hours doing that.

    So, no. Those of us who like to fish are not wild eyed idiots who only take. We are smarter and more beneficial to the environment who mock and lecture without any knowledge.

  18. PHenry

    We occasionally catch Stripers on the Delta. Never our targeted species but I’ve pulled a couple big ones out of amazingly shallow cover. We put those in the livewell and take them home. They are tasty. We also occasionally catch Steel Head. Even tastier.

  19. Bad Brad. Nice.
    Damn dude. Makes me want to gear up and blow the next few days off. Saltwater is not as close and my job just dumped a load on me. I wonder how fast I can get that done?

    In the old days I could be in my boat 10 minutes after work.

  24. I hate seafood. But I have gone fishing once or twice. Went with a group of people when my dad was stationed in Central America. Had to take a boat, then some motorized canoe business over to some island. Didn’t catch anything but a crap load of mosquitoes. mostly on my ass and back. LOL. Found out seagulls love french fries. Who knew?

  27. OK Bad_Boy_Brad, this is a bass, on topic, very cool.. But your video was great, didn’t see that coming!

    https://youtu.be/6WC6EbRQmJ0

    MJA, there is an 8mm family movie of my brother chasing me with a dead fish. My parents would have loved putting child abuse by dead fish on YouTube, they were sick that way..

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