Outside View

By David Webb 

Buyer Beware

Is Canada’s largest retailer of outdoor gear taking aim at your heritage?


Big-box retailer Mountain Equipment Co-Op is often shrouded in controversy. The company frequently faces opposition to its not-for-profit designation — a designation that has allowed it to achieve nearly a quarter-billion dollars in annual sales while contributing a mere one-half-of-one per cent of that to the tax man. However, there is another issue surrounding MEC that is of much greater relevance to the sportsman.

This Fall look for the SPECIAL HUNTING EDITION of WESTERN SPORTSMAN — on newsstands everywhere September 1, 2008.

This year, our MOST ANTICIPATED ISSUE IS EVEN BETTER THAN EVER! With updated, upgraded, most USER-FRIENDLY harvest data charts - complete with MAPS - plus tips, tactics and stories on stand and blind placement, deer hunting, goats, birds, moose, elk, antelope AND EVERYTHING ELSE YOU NEED TO KNOW for the 2008 HUNTING SEASON!

If you miss this issue - YOU'RE MISSING OUT BIG TIME!