Wholesale Hunting Gear Suppliers for Outdoor Retailers

If you’re opening a hunting shop or adding a hunting department, the first question is simple: which wholesale suppliers can you actually sell from? This page shows the hunting and outdoor distributors Gearfire connects to, what each one brings to a hunting retailer, and how their catalogs stream straight onto your online store, so you can source the full department and start selling without stocking every item yourself. 

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Why Sourcing Wholesale Hunting Gear Trips Up Retailers

The hard part of hunting gear is rarely finding a wholesale supplier. It’s turning a massive wholesale catalog into a profitable department. A single distributor carries tens of thousands of items across apparel, optics, blinds, packs, and accessories, and hand-entering that selection is a job nobody has time for, so most shops end up selling a thin slice of what they could offer.

The inventory side is just as unforgiving. Buying every product into your own stockroom locks up cash in seasonal gear that may not move until fall, while wholesale pricing and availability shift constantly. A store that isn’t synced to supplier data ends up advertising the wrong price or selling gear that’s out of stock, and when the counter and the website keep separate counts, you oversell what you no longer have and lose the customer you worked to earn.

The fix isn’t a different supplier. It’s connecting the suppliers you already want to a system that loads their catalogs, streams their live inventory, and sells it online and in-store as one operation.

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Which Wholesale Hunting Distributors Does Gearfire Connect To?

Gearfire integrates directly with the leading distributors in the shooting sports and outdoor industry, giving retailers instant access to a curated catalog of more than 150,000 products from over 1,300 brands. You activate a distributor in your Gearfire dashboard using your existing dealer credentials, and its inventory streams to your store automatically, with professional images, descriptions, and live pricing. An active dealer account with the distributor is required to stream its inventory.

Here are the distributors most relevant to a hunting department and what each one brings.

Kinsey’s

Founded in 1952, Kinsey’s serves the outdoor and archery industry with a broad catalog covering firearms, hunting and camping gear, optics, and archery products. Its deep archery selection makes it a strong option for retailers building out a hunting department.

Bill Hicks & Co.

In business since 1969, Bill Hicks & Co. offers a broad mix of firearms, ammunition, hunting equipment, optics, camping gear, apparel, and footwear. Its wide product selection gives retailers a single source for many of the categories needed to build a complete hunting department.

Sports South

Sports South has a long history of supplying firearms and outdoor sporting goods to retailers nationwide. Its catalog covers firearms, ammunition, and outdoor categories, giving hunting retailers another established source for core products.

Chattanooga Shooting Supplies

Chattanooga carries 45,000+ SKUs across firearms, ammunition, optics, reloading, and outdoor gear. It’s a reliable hunting-department source, particularly for the firearms, ammunition, and optics that anchor most hunting sales.

You can view the full current distributor roster on the Gearfire Partners page.

Plus Firearms, Ammunition, and Accessories From

A hunting department also lives on guns, ammunition, optics, and accessories. Gearfire connects to the industry’s leading firearms distributors for exactly that, so you can carry the hunting-relevant side of their catalogs alongside your soft goods:

  • Davidson’s: one of the largest firearms wholesalers in America, in business since 1932, with a deep firearms and ammunition selection.

  • RSR Group: a major national firearms, ammunition, and accessories distributor.

  • Lipsey’s: a premier firearms wholesaler since 1953, known for exclusive offerings and strong dealer support.

  • Zanders Sporting Goods: a long-established distributor of firearms, ammunition, and shooting sports products.

  • Gun Accessory Supply: a two-step distributor specializing in firearm accessories, optics, and tactical gear.

How Gearfire Connects Distributor Catalogs to Your Store

Choosing a distributor is only half of it. Gearfire is what turns that dealer account into a stocked, sellable department.

Preloaded catalogs, no manual entry. When you activate a distributor, its products load into your store automatically, with professional images, descriptions, and categories included. You get a wide selection of hunting and outdoor gear ready to sell instead of a spreadsheet to key in by hand.

Live inventory streaming. Gearfire streams each distributor’s real-time inventory and pricing to your store, so what customers see stays accurate on availability and cost. When wholesale pricing or stock shifts, your listings follow, no advertising a price you can’t honor or selling gear that’s already gone.

Dropship the long tail. You don’t have to own everything you list. Stock your fast movers and dropship the specialty items and deep long tail straight from the distributor, offering the full catalog without meeting minimum order quantities or committing cash to bulk orders you’re not sure will sell.

One inventory count across every channel. A sale at the counter updates the website and vice versa, so you never oversell gear you no longer have. Your point of sale, your online store, and your distributor feeds all read from the same current data.

How to Sell Hunting Gear Online with Gearfire

Selling hunting gear online gives retailers a way to reach more customers beyond their physical storefront. Gearfire eCommerce connects your online store with distributor inventory, allowing customers to browse hunting gear, optics, apparel, and other outdoor products while keeping product information accurate across channels.

With inventory management tools built for specialty retailers, businesses can keep track of products across their sales channels without manually updating stock levels. Dropshipping also allows retailers to expand their online catalog by offering distributor products without needing to carry every item in their own inventory.

Gearfire’s POS helps retailers manage sales, inventory, and compliance from the counter. Connecting your point of sale with your online store creates a more consistent experience across channels, so retailers can manage purchases, inventory, and customer orders from one platform.

By combining eCommerce, point of sale, dropshipping, and inventory management, Gearfire helps retailers build a more connected operation while expanding their online sales opportunities.

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Frequently Asked Questions About Wholesale Hunting Gear

Gearfire connects to leading shooting sports and outdoor distributors, including hunting- and outdoor-focused suppliers like Kinsey’s, Bill Hicks, Sports South, Big Rock Sports, and Chattanooga Shooting Supply, plus major firearms distributors such as Davidson’s, RSR Group, Lipsey’s, and Zanders. You can see the full current roster on the Partners page. An active dealer account with each distributor is required to stream its inventory.

A wholesale supplier or distributor sells hunting gear to retailers at dealer pricing so the shop can resell it at retail. The margin between the wholesale cost and the retail price funds the hunting department.

By opening a dealer account with a wholesale distributor or manufacturer, confirming the business, and gaining access to wholesale pricing, catalogs, and terms. Suppliers vary on minimum order quantity and payment terms, so compare them on breadth, pricing, and fulfillment speed. With Gearfire, once your dealer account is active, that distributor’s catalog streams to your store automatically.

No. Stocking your fast movers and dropshipping the rest lets you offer thousands of items without committing cash to bulk orders, which protects cash flow while giving customers the full selection.

A complete department spans hunting apparel and footwear, optics, blinds and tree stands, game calls, packs, and camping and survival gear, plus the firearms and ammunition many hunters buy in the same trip, matched to the seasons and the game your local hunters pursue.

Give your customers the full archery catalog without the inventory risk. See which distributors Gearfire connects to on the partners page, then contact Gearfire and see how quickly Gearfire turns wholesale archery supplies into a profitable department.

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Source Wholesale. Sell Everywhere. Grow Faster.

Give your customers the full archery catalog without the inventory risk. See which distributors Gearfire connects to on the partners page, then contact Gearfire and see how quickly Gearfire turns wholesale archery supplies into a profitable department.

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