IMO I would not put in any of what you have posted BOBO, due to the fact it is avery select buying market. The in state deer hunters will not be buying most of what you posted to sell. He will be targeting a smaller market of hunters. As far as the high-end coolers everyone is selling them now. EVERYONE, so the market is covered on them. HEB carries them now in all their stores in hunting season.

I will disagree with you on some things and agree on some. You can compete with the big box stores. 99.9% of the time the big box stores inventory is preset and pre-ordered via computer not a human being that nows what is selling in your store. How many times have you walked into a big box store to only find what you want is sold out, the warehouse is out and they will not be stocking in more till next season. You can be the cheapest price in town but if you don't stock it you can't sell it. Big box stores will not carry quantities of good feeders. If you can order, inventory and knowledgebly sell what you market the customer will always find you.
I would not try to sell camo clothing due to the shear amount of inventory you have to carry to fit every man, woman and child who wanted to buy that year for the Texas hunting market. Same with hunting boots for Texas climates.
I also, would not try to cater to the high end market, unless you live in an area that has enough of those people to keep you in business. I will tell you that those "high end" folks still shop the cheapest prices they can get for hunting supplies for the lease or ranch they hunt. If Los Cazadores is charging a cover it is to weed out the tire kickers, so for me I would not grace their doors to pay to buy something from them. I sold a many a feeder or game management need to those folks due to our pricing and product knowledge.
We had a knife sales case that we stocked in a few custom made knives and then handled knives by Moore Maker. Moore Maker makes some really great knives that are not the big box store type knife. One thing about knives is they are an impulse sale, high profit and just stop someone to look at them. We sold a lot of knives for hunters, ranchers, farmers and gifts. We kept the Diamond Sharpening stones in stock and one setting on the counter to use.
Lastly the market you are targeting is hunters. There is nothing unique in what they do, some buy what is working for others or go with the flow and some will have unique buying habits.
When stocking a store you have to think of anything and everything you would use on a hunting lease/ranch and then, would the buying market you are targeting use it? Just go to the big box store at the end of hunting season, look at what is marked down and remember those items. They did not sell that year or they are in the category of having to stock a large varied inventory to fit the market.

I used to go to a little local shop every august with some buddies and buy a couple cases of shells and a super combo getting ready for dove season,we paid a little more to support the small local shop! a couple years ago went in to buy shells and license and the lady at the register said they no longer sold hunting lic.said it was to much trouble she points to Dicks sporting goods about 200 yards away and says you need to go there!i told her I didn't want to go there ,I wanted to spend my money here. I left and went to academy and got my shells and super combo and saved money! they just didn't get it.

Liquor. Never fails, on the way out to the field I need to stop at the gun shop and the liquor store. Here's a recent pic I snapped in Wyoming of a similar concept...

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Seriously though, I saw a couple other comments in this thread regarding customer service. To echo those, regardless of product, customer service is key [to me]. Don't have that, don't have me.

-Mickey

Women in bikinis.

I think stxranchman has it nailed. Kind of interesting there is no "go to" hunting store specializing in "lease" type stuff in DFW area.

I have no doubt one done right would do great.

I have been feeding a corn/roasted soybean mixture from Bryant Grain Company in Aledo. Most stores don't carry it. You may want consider stocking this.

It would be nice to sell corn and other feed products but now you are getting into a whole different set of dealing with major feed companies. Just handle corn or corn mix from a large corn supplier.
One last thing we did was put in some really nice deer mounts or shed antlers from local folks. I also shot videos running everyday and had TC pics that were there everday for hunters to view.
Lastly I have seen many a store that was stocked well and had very knowlegable people but their location were horrible. Access was a PITA off freeways making it horrible to get to and worse to get back on. People have to know you are there, then want to get you quickly and get back on the road.

Game cameras with a live feed that send photos to your monitor. Have the camera set up at a ranch with a lot of activity so people could view it while on scene. IMO that would sell a lot of cameras.

Also no offense to the RP, but I go to about 3-5 hunting stores a week around North Dallas area. You would have to have something to draw me to your store to kick around in on my days off. Find a specialty niche that keeps people like me always wondering what you have. Or you can be know as carrying a certain line and being the cheapest around.

Also, once you get the hang of your shop open an eBay store and sell your items via buy it now for instore price.

This or live streaming video from feeders in Texas. Was not available back when I was at the stores but we would have had it. I did shoot new video every week starting in July to thru the end of hunting season and have it edit to run in the stores.