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JURA KONCIUSThe Washington Post
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Published Sunday, June 26, 2005
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A buck toilet-paper holder from Cabela's.
K.C. Coffey, 14, of Walkersville, Md., spends his summer canicule angling for largemouth bass and his nights absent of the one that got abroad on bedding accessory with angle and deer.
Last week, he and his ancestors collection to Bass Pro Shops Alfresco Apple in Hanover, Md., the superstore of camo, ammo and accessories for the alfresco lifestyle, to amount up on fly-fishing food and wildlife art prints.
"You should see our house," says Jan Coffey, who was affairs a agronomical hat and a hummingbird rain barometer while they were there. "We accept a barn abounding of NASCAR stuff, a basement that has a golf theme, and my son's allowance is abounding of angle stuff. The blow of the abode is Colonial. It sounds like absolutely a afterimage doesn't it?"
But it's a afterimage that is absolutely communicable on amid those with a affection for fishing, hunting, camping and activity in the abundant outdoors. Barter who are fractional to snake-proof boots, bonfire orange vests and cobweb fishing creels can accompany added of that woodsy attending home with moose bleed throws, agrarian turkey wallpaper borders and ache cone shower-curtain hooks.
Specialty food such as Bass Pro and Cabela's, forth with purveyors of added acceptable alfresco appearance such as L.L.Bean and Orvis, accept pumped up their offerings in home adornment with rustic lamps, trout-covered pillow shams and braided rugs.
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Specialty food such as Bass Pro and Cabela's, forth with purveyors of added acceptable alfresco appearance such as L.L.Bean and Orvis, accept pumped up their offerings in home adornment with rustic lamps and braided rugs. Here, stag pillows and added alfresco items at Bass Pro Shops Alfresco Apple in Hanover, Md. By CRAIG HERNDON, The Washington Post
"The animation that sportsmen and women feel for the outdoors is so strong, that added and added of them are accustomed that affair appropriate on into their homes so they can alive it more," says Chuck Wechsler, administrator and editor of Antic Abstract magazine. "Hunters and fishermen adulation the escape it offers from the absolute world. They appetite that affectionate of atmosphere in their home, too."
Nowhere in the Washington breadth is camo chichi begin in such affluence as at Bass Pro Shops Alfresco World, the 130,000-square-foot, lodge-style abundance in Arundel Mills, Md., mall. Allotment big-box banker of alfresco products, allotment wildlife affair park, Bass Pro Shops is accessible 364 canicule a year. It stocks 25,000 fishing lures, displays 500 taxidermy animals -- from an Alaskan amber buck to a muskrat -- and a 28,000-gallon fishing catchbasin abounding with bounded species.
This is not the abode for airless Ralph Lauren covering addition chairs and checkerboard pillows. Think camo comforters, catfish-shaped mailboxes and Jeff Foxworthy and Blue Collar Comedy Tour DVDs.
Bass Pro Shops, whose flagship abundance in Springfield, Mo., attracts added than 4 actor visitors a year, has taken that Ozark address and pumped it into 27 massive lodge-look retail food about the country; 16 added are planned by the end of abutting year. The aggregation mails added than 100 actor catalogs and sales circulars annually, and its Web armpit logs added than 2 actor visitors anniversary month.
The abreast captivated aggregation was started in 1971 by amateur Johnny Morris, who counts himself a acquaintance of President Bush -- ancestor and son. Morris started affairs difficult-to-find lures and went on to body a colossal bazaar of the alfresco lifestyle, borer into the wallets of 113 actor anglers, hunters, bird-watchers and wildlife lovers -- a army that spends $108.4 billion on accessory and alfresco adventures. Bass Pro doesn't absolution sales figures, but industry sources put the company's anniversary sales at abutting to $2 billion.
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K.C. COFFEY, 14, of Walkersville, Md., spends his summer canicule angling for largemouth bass. He and his ancestors boutique at Bass Pro Shops Alfresco Apple in Hanover, Md., a superstore of camo, ammo and accessories for the alfresco lifestyle. By CRAIG HERNDON, The Washington Post
The Maryland store, with its connected acidity of piped-in country music, draws up to 30,000 barter on a active weekend. Shoppers accept included above Attorney General John Ashcroft, NASCAR disciplinarian Mark Truex Jr. and Baltimore Ravens quarterback Kyle Boller. Added than 70 percent of the barter are male, but the changeable army is growing.
Customers affairs up to the abundance are greeted with a bottomward avalanche and chapped log ashtrays. A miniature avoid pond is abounding with decoys and driftwood, buck aisle advance to the capital entrance.
Inside, there are displays of animals, canoes and antic accessory as far as the eye can see. Past the "Quack Shack," which is the waterfowl department, and the 42-foot rock-climbing bank is the home adornment department: bubble trout ceramics sets, bear-covered sheets, Labrador bung pillows and turkey finials for lamps.
The store, which is abutting to Baltimore-Washington International Airport, attracts troops abiding from the Middle East with arid dust still on their boots, according to promotions administrator Allan Ellis. They, like others, appear to absorb it all in and brainstorm a basement, bold room, den or berth that reminds them of their admired beck or forest.
"The attending generally starts aback there is a hunter or a fisherman in the ancestors and he wants to appearance off his lifestyle," says Eleanor Griffin, who sees a lot of rustic homes in her role as editor of Cottage Active magazine. "The den becomes his own mini-cabin, alike if it's a allowance in Alexandria, Va., aural 20 account of the Capitol. Aback he comes home, he can accept his amber covering daybed and his L.L. Bean avoid lamp."
Or his Cabela's $199.99 deer antler aggregate toilet cardboard holder/magazine rack.
Ellis agrees. "It reminds them of actuality outdoors. They appear home from assignment and apperceive they can't go fishing or hunting for a week. They appetite to accept a faculty of what they adulation the most."
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Customers run the area from blue-collar workers to captains of industry. "The bulk," Ellis says, "are common folks, bodies who go to assignment every day but alive for the outdoors."
One day aftermost week, Vijay and Latha Pureti of Silver Spring, Md., brought babe Madhu, 6, to analysis out fishing equipment. The ancestors concluded up adequate on the recliners -- "They are actual comfortable," says Vijay Pureti -- but they weren't accessible to booty one home.
Steve Commander and his wife, Sylvia, appear to Bass Pro from Baltimore about already a ages because they are acquisitive to buy a abode and actualize a "fake log berth look," he says. "We would adulation to accept a active allowance with an outdoorsy look, with a big fireplace." Steve Commander was eyeing the $149 "Buck, the Animated Singing Deer" as a Father's Day allowance for his dad. Appropriate now, the deer is affective its arch and belting out "Sweet Home Alabama."
Vernon Kirby is a beneficiary of fishing lures, which are displayed all over his Glen Burnie, Md., apartment. He stops by every brace of weeks and enjoys watching the striped bass, walleyes and chicken branch in the tank. "The displays draw a lot of bodies and you can get a lot of account from them," says Kirby.
A above adversary to Bass Pro is Cabela's, based in Sidney, Neb., which mails 100 actor catalogs anniversary year abounding with fishing and hunting products. It alien a abstracted Home & Berth archive two years ago in acknowledgment to growing appeal for accoutrement with that backcountry look. It alike sells pre-cut log cabins to ample with moose club chairs, addle adumbrate rugs and faux shearling coverlets. The aggregation has 12 superstores, including locations in West Virginia and Pennsylvania. "We try to accommodate annihilation that will accompaniment our customers' hobbies," says Eric Wieser, Cabela's artefact administrator for home furnishings.
At L.L.Bean, Fran Philip, arch affairs officer, says home accoutrement accept been in the Maine-based retailer's band about aback the alpha in 1912. "Mr. Bean, our founder, was the aboriginal affairs merchant," she says. Today at their abundance in Tysons Corner Center in Virginia, a two-story avalanche and popsicle-colored Adirondack chairs allure shoppers central where, alongside the kayaks, are cross-stitched bedding and old-time lemonade glasses. Philip thinks the all-camo attending is a bit abundant but acknowledges that her aggregation fell into the allurement of slapping a moose or blockhead assimilate aggregate a decade ago. Now, they're aback into the classics, business Hudson's Bay blankets and canvas closet organizers based on their athletic baiter tote bags.
Orvis, the antic appurtenances aggregation founded in 1856 in Manchester, Vt., consistently had outdoorsy home accessories, but bristles years ago added home catalogs with accept appliance and hand-hooked trout footstools. "We don't all alive in cabins with a roaring river and deer in the aback yard," says Pam Kerr, bounded commodity administrator for allowance and home, "but we can still adore that look."
Sporting Abstract anniversary editor Wechsler says his den is a camo-free area but is woodsy-looking, with draperies with waterfowl images, a rug with a white-tailed deer on it, and wildlife art prints and sculpture.
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"I feel actual adequate in there," says Wechsler. "When my wife is watching banty flicks in the added room, I can escape in actuality amidst by my admired things."
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