I drove down to the nearest Cabela's today and bought a Dickinson side by side, NIB, 16 gauge, 28 inch barrels, straight stock, double triggers, with choke tubes. I had two to choose from. I chose the lighter one--a hair under 6 pounds, eight ounces. This is, of course, the same configuration that 2few bought a couple of weeks ago.
For the benefit of anyone who wants that configuration, the SKU number is 03560526.
Riflemeister, I wish I could give you the SKU for the single trigger POW in the barrel length you want. I can't, but I can tell you how to get it.
I have been dealing with a guy named Bill Rayer who manages the Cabela's Gun Library in Rapid City, South Dakota. He is helpful, knowledgeable and committed to these guns. Give him a call, explain your situation and I'm sure he can do two things--give you the SKU number you need and tell you where in the system what you want is in stock. Tell him you've got a website friend he helped out.
Here, in a nutshell, is the problem. The Dickinsons are new guns and so they are sitting in the new gun department at Cabela's, not in the Gun Libraries. But nobody who works behind the counter at a place the size of Cabela can hope to be personally familiar with all the inventory. So, the new Dickinsons are hidden in plain sight in the new gun inventory, but if a guy walks in off the street and asks after them, or even worse, calls and asks, it's luck of the draw whether he gets somebody who just stares at him and wants to move on to the next customer or somebody interested enought to dig into the request.
That's why having the SKU number was such a help. Also, it lets you call the day before you make the drive and make sure they've got what you want in stock. For me, with a two hour drive, that was a was a consideration.
Now, if you are an old phart you can go off on a tirade about sales help not knowing what they've got in stock, blah, blah, blah, and you'd have a point if you were in the township hardware store in 1954 and the inventory consisted of a half dozen pistols and 20 or 30 long guns. But that's not the case at Cabela's. You better know what you want going in, and it helps to know if they have it. Fact of life.
Now for the good news. I was told Cabela's ordered something like 800 or 1000 of these things, in different gauges and configurations. So they are out there, and the 26 guns listed in the Gun Library are a small fraction of what's actually available. Eventually, there will be a 28 gauge and it will be built on a 28 gauge frame. But they aren't in yet, whatever that means. I'm cynical enough to wonder if that wasn't a commitment by AKUS dependent on Cabelas' success selling the stuff built on the 12 and 20 ga. frames (who could blame them after Smith & Wesson?). I don't really care.
Anyway, there won't be any picture until after Christmas. We do have a few standards out here on the Left Coast, and, as my wife used to say, NO PEEKING.
For the benefit of anyone who wants that configuration, the SKU number is 03560526.
Riflemeister, I wish I could give you the SKU for the single trigger POW in the barrel length you want. I can't, but I can tell you how to get it.
I have been dealing with a guy named Bill Rayer who manages the Cabela's Gun Library in Rapid City, South Dakota. He is helpful, knowledgeable and committed to these guns. Give him a call, explain your situation and I'm sure he can do two things--give you the SKU number you need and tell you where in the system what you want is in stock. Tell him you've got a website friend he helped out.
Here, in a nutshell, is the problem. The Dickinsons are new guns and so they are sitting in the new gun department at Cabela's, not in the Gun Libraries. But nobody who works behind the counter at a place the size of Cabela can hope to be personally familiar with all the inventory. So, the new Dickinsons are hidden in plain sight in the new gun inventory, but if a guy walks in off the street and asks after them, or even worse, calls and asks, it's luck of the draw whether he gets somebody who just stares at him and wants to move on to the next customer or somebody interested enought to dig into the request.
That's why having the SKU number was such a help. Also, it lets you call the day before you make the drive and make sure they've got what you want in stock. For me, with a two hour drive, that was a was a consideration.
Now, if you are an old phart you can go off on a tirade about sales help not knowing what they've got in stock, blah, blah, blah, and you'd have a point if you were in the township hardware store in 1954 and the inventory consisted of a half dozen pistols and 20 or 30 long guns. But that's not the case at Cabela's. You better know what you want going in, and it helps to know if they have it. Fact of life.
Now for the good news. I was told Cabela's ordered something like 800 or 1000 of these things, in different gauges and configurations. So they are out there, and the 26 guns listed in the Gun Library are a small fraction of what's actually available. Eventually, there will be a 28 gauge and it will be built on a 28 gauge frame. But they aren't in yet, whatever that means. I'm cynical enough to wonder if that wasn't a commitment by AKUS dependent on Cabelas' success selling the stuff built on the 12 and 20 ga. frames (who could blame them after Smith & Wesson?). I don't really care.
Anyway, there won't be any picture until after Christmas. We do have a few standards out here on the Left Coast, and, as my wife used to say, NO PEEKING.
