Great experience with Calgary Shooting Center!

Don't argue with them about "it's company policy" or you might get thrown out of the store like I did yesterday when I was dropping off 2 items for the gunsmith. Unfortunately they're the only game in town anymore. I used to work for WSS for a number of years ago part time and I sure miss having them in town. At CSC if you're older and you're not talking "black guns" or pistols, I always get the feeling they're not interested.
 
I placed my first order with them and surprise!!! Item was out of stock!!! But still great service and wide selection of products, my favourite gun store in Canada! 100 % recommended!!!!
 
Couldn't agree more. These guys are always profession and easy to deal with. Quick shipping when ordering online and the store itself is well organized and clean. Customer service is what really sticks in people's minds and keeps people coming back. Kudos.
 
I’m fortunate to live in Calgary, & have been a customer & range member for quite a few years. Every gun store has it’s own, unique “vibe”, some may suit you better than others. I’ve been a shooter since long before they ever existed; I think the first pistol I ever bought was back in the Western Armament & Guncraft days in the early 1970’s.
I’ve been a member at one point or another with every range in the Calgary area in the last 50 years or so. Out of necessity, I remained a member at a couple for more than a year, because there simply was no other place to shoot. CSC is different; I’ve been a member there for quite a while now, and there are a couple other options in town. The staff have been great; they aren’t a bunch of “cowboys”; they do carry lots of “Black guns”...that’s what the market wants today, and truthfully I own my share of them, in spite of being an old guy. I also love me some lever guns, and have a soft spot for revolvers, both modern and late 1800’s era...they have those too. I’ve never been shunned or ignored for asking questions about a bolt gun or a lever action...I don’t think anyone that has cannot be held more than a little responsible if they’ve been ignored.
They’re good folks. Sure, we’ve had a couple of minor differences of opinion; frankly it’s hard to believe they haven’t thrown my grouchy old ass out more than a couple times. They’ve listened when I’ve complained about something, and you can’t ask for a lot more.
It’s always nice to see competition, and I was sorry to see Wholesale disappear the way they did. But, as long as these guys are in business, I’ll likely keep shooting & buying from them.
 
I am also from Ontario, but lived a while ago in Calgary. I am buying from Calgary Shooting Center for multiple reasons: First: the guns they have in stock are nowhere else to be found (P210s, Manhurins, collectibles, etc.) Where else one can buy a MR73 and MR 88?. I was also looking at their X-5s, "the Violin"....Second: excellent communication and professional service when dealing with web orders. Kevin is number one! The tax there is LESS than in Ontario and when a gun costs thousands, you can feel this. Their shipping by Canpar is very reliable and it comes at your door when they say it'l come. They are overwhelmed now by online orders, but still a perfect service!
 
Well organized ammo

I know it's a pain in the butt to do, please know that it's appreciated. You're the only site I've visited where I can actually sort by what I want in my shotgun shell. That seems trivial until you're looking for 00 buck and the store carries 10,000 varieties of #8 birdshot and you have to scroll through them all.

Thank you.
 
Thanks! It is very time consuming to build all the menus and product attributes to properly categorize thousands of SKUs. We believe it is better to build everything out properly rather than throw everything online and let the consumer search through pages of irrelevant products to their needs.
 
There's at least one other site sponsor who does this and, although I can't say their name, I appreciate it immensely.
 
first experience: excellent!

I placed an order with CSC in the afternoon of 15 June, and within a couple of hours I had received notification that the parcel was in the capable hands of Canada Post...not merely entered into the system, but actually in their possession. I received an email from CSC cautioning me that there had been some recent issues with slow deliveries, and particularly with inaccurate tracking. No problem, it is what it is.

I checked the tracking number they provided, and sure enough, it showed as invalid, not in the system...as CSC's email had cautioned. Rather than follow accepted CGN procedure by having an aneurysm and starting a whine-thread about this outrage, I went on with my life. On the morning of the 17th, I casually checked the tracking again...and was astonished to see that the parcel had been dropped off at my PO box a few hours earlier. Total time elapsed between placing order and having the item available for me to pick up at my rural Manitoba PO box: less than 40 hours.

Good job by Canada Post, made possible by fast order processing at CSC. They answered my couple of questions very quickly, and didn't waste any time processing, packaging and getting the item into CP's hands. Excellent packaging, and the (used) item was at least as good as described. I'm a happy camper and will definitely be dealing with them again in future. :)
 
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