Should be soon!!
I got tired of hearing "it's on back order" from Cabelas so I called Marlin today. The Lady I spoke to didn't provide much information other than to say they have been shipping to Canada and Cabelas USA warehouse. I was asking about the Guide Gun and assumed she was replying about the Guide Gun, but now I have my doubts. She said she couldn't find Cabelas Canada in the system so we decided that I would call back to Cabelas.
I called Cabelas and spoke to Adam, he wasn't sure if they get there produce directly from Marlin but said he would check. I couple of minutes later he said they did get their shipments directly from Cabelas. So I called Marlin back...
This time I spoke to JP (at Cabelas). He said he couldn't help me because I was in Canada (Don't think he was right...) but he was good enough to give me the number of the Canada contact. I think it was called the Graval Agency (spelling is not correct). I called and spoke to a lady who informed me that they have nothing to do with Cabelas orders (so JP was wrong). Cabelas gets they produce directly from Marlin.
She was kind enough to look up the part number and check the status... Go figure, the one person that has nothing to do with the order was the most help!
Here's the good part!
Apparently they are doing a production run of 163 Guide Guns starting on Monday July 19th. The run will take about 8 weeks to complete. She said probably less time than 8 weeks but they say 8 weeks so people don't keep calling back.
Since ours have been on order since February she is confident we will get them. Apparently they wait until they have enough orders before they do a production run.
So... we might see them before the fall bear hunt!!
On another note, I asked the lady at Marlin about shutting down the plant. She said that was just a internet rumor. They are moving the plant but it will remain open (at the new location)
