Minnesota-based retailer of hunting, camping, marine and outdoor products Gander Mountain will open nine stores this autumn. This completes the company’s plan to open 13 new stories in 2007, bringing its total number of stores to 115.

The stores will be located in: Waukesha, Wisconsin; Jackson, Tennessee; Rochester, Minnesota; Jacksonville, Florida; Lubbock, Texas; Evansville, Indiana; Hattiesburg, Mississippi; Richmond, Virginia; and Bowling Green, Kentucky. The Waukesha and Rochester locations will replace existing Gander Mountain stores, while the remaining seven stores are new locations.

All stores will have outside selling areas for boats, ATVs, and other large items.

Each will include an in-store gunsmith, a full-service archery shop with shooting lanes, a bait shop, ATV and marine service and a Gander Lodge meeting space available to local organisations free-of-charge.