BuckShot Saloon

We spent almost every Thursday last summer at Bucks. The door guys are great. Stacy the cashier is a sweetheart! They are strict with the rules without being assholes. The bartenders could be a little friendlier but they still make great drinks. It’s a younger crowd but I don’t go looking for dates. I just hang out with my friends and most of my friends are younger. We love Bucks.

I came here on a Thursday night with a good friend of mine and met up with some other friends. We all had a great time and I met a lot of new people. The place was very busy late at night and a lot of people were getting on the dance floor. I danced with a couple people here before I left. This is definitely a great place to come to if you’re in Galveston looking for some drinks, country music, two-​stepping, and meeting new people.

Keep trying to give this place chance after chance. Why? Well let’s just say this place is nothing but drama. The bouncers are worthless… It’s not what you know but who you know at this bar. Their «bouncers» are rude and start drama. Top it off the music is whack. The people are ehh alright mostly rich little spoiled brats showing off daddy’s money. This place just has issues. Some stuff always goes down whenever me and my friends go.

Let me start with how much I admire this bar.
1 star? Admire? That doesn’t make sense.
I assure you, dear reader, that by the end of my tale the understanding will not only be poignant but direct.
The GM also publicly humiliated me, see below.
Buckshot, nicknamed Buck’s, is a hidden «country» bar off the very pedestrian friendly strand of Galveston. I used quotations because this bar plays a mixture of tunes that draw in all kinds of crowds. You will find everyone hitting the dance floor, including the one eyed one horned flying purple people eaters, which makes for a night to wear the taps of your shoes out.
Bartenders, bar backs, bouncers, djs… All of them are A++. Most of them have worked here for eons and their love for the bar is shown in the love they put into their work. Take a Buckshot, the bars cocktail signature… It’s dangerous enough to keep you coming back every weekend.
The dancefloor is large enough to accommodate the masses while keeping you on your toes for that two step or wobble. The mechanical bull just adds to the allure of this establishment, making it a go to if you either vacation or live on the island. Many bachlorette parties are thrown here because of the karaōke room and fun loving bachelors.
Let’s get to the reason for the one star, shall we?
I’ve never been humiliated and made to cry publicly-​much less by a stranger, even more less by a general manager. This past weekend my boyfriend and I were entertaining a friend from California. Dancing. Something that 1. The bar has a dedicated floor for 2. Friends do; is apparently condoned by the GM. The (female) GM approached me after dancing with our guest for 3 songs to tell me that my behavior was inappropriate and offensive to my boyfriend, who you know well. I was made to feel like I had done something wrong prior to consent from my SO and encouraged to entertain the said guest.
My message to the GM,
as a nightlife professional, you should have more tactful approaches if you feel morally indifferent. It’s unfortunate that because of your behavior that I feel it necessary to not recommend this bar to friends, family, and coworkers as I have done for 4 months now. I’m a single mother who gets few nights out. Between my full time job, school and daycare schedules, and nights in with my boyfriend, who you feel I wronged, I am appalled at how you discerned my night out. I am astonished that you would shame me for the very thing that your bar encourages– dancing. I deserve an apology. My boyfriend deserves an apology. The friend and all the people you may have spread an ugly rumor to, they deserve an apology.
I enjoy patroning this highlight of Galveston, but will refrain my recommendation of 5 stars until the above is acknowledged.

I haven’t been in a while about 2 years but when I did it was great. Lots of dancing and good music, it is a popular hangout out for college kids on the weekends but I did see some good groups of older people at times so you wouldn’t be completely out of place. They did group dances about once a night most nights back then I am not sure if they still do.

I have been here twice and no one knows how to dance. The one time I did dance with someone good he was a dance instructor. The bar staff were very nice, one of the nicest door guys I’ve ever met. The patrons were all about buying shots but very unfortunate for the lack of dancing talent.

This bar stays pretty busy, cool air, lots of room but the the dj sucks (every time I’ve been) and most the service in general isn’t that great so I have a love hate relationship with this place

I’m 20 years old right now (4 months til 21!!!). Bucks was my very first bar at 18; needless to say I was extremely nervous but since then it has had, and always will have a real sentimental value to me. My friends and I have had many great times here and there a surely many more to come within the next few years. :)
P. S. Don’t let the Kereoke guy get to you. He’s just like that: P Bucks really is a great place to spend your Thursday, Friday, and/​or Saturday nights :)

The guy that does the karaōke is dick. He was totally rude to me and my friends and we were the only people in there.

Not really that big on country music, but the hospitality and clean spacious restrooms sold me! Country has grown on me! thanks BuckShot!

Big Honkey Tonk bar downtown with large dance floor that was built to two-​step. They don’t just play country music and line dancing though, this is still Galveston. A fair amount of 90’s rap and booty music is mixed in. They also have a separate room in the building with Karaōke. A decent selection of songs but by no means vast. I will say that I killed Bohemian Rhapsody last time I was in there. I mean really brought the house down.

We ended up here on St Patricks Day after visiting many other bars and we had a lot of fun here. There was a pub crawl going on and this was the place where the after-​party was.
I will just set the record straight and will say that I am not country. I’m not from Texas and I’m not big into country music or Wranglers. I will tell you that the bartenders here were extremely friendly and fun. They have Buckhunter, pool tables, darts, jukebox, huge dance floor, and a stage for live bands. They also have karaōke on Friday and Saturday nights.

Thursday night is college night here, so, lots of folks, dancing, karaōke, and cheap beers

Texas country two stepping is definitely not my thing, but I love this place. Lots of people are always there on a Saturday night. Huge dance floor, and karaōke in a separate room when you first walk in.
Bartenders are not from Galveston. You can tell that this is not really so much a local bar. But it’s nice.
Only thing is it is SO hard to walk in and out of this place! You have maybe 4 feet width from the dance floor and the bar. People trying to order drinks or just standing there is so annoying when you’re trying to walk through the club. I really feel like I’m bothering people just by walking. Oh well. Cool place though other than that.

Great country/​western bar with even greater bartenders. Easy walking distance to the Strand. Pool tables in back, clean restrooms, three different bars to make getting a drink easier. At least 5 bartenders on a typical weekend night.

I have been here a number of times over the past few weeks, and it is by far the best nightlife on the island right now. The music is a good mix of country and dance/​pop. The dj smoothly transitions from Sugarland to LMFAO and it works! Bartenders are pretty good also, but on the weekends they need help, it gets hard to refill your drink as the night goes on. Pool tables in the back are well spaced which is somewhat rare for a dance bar. I hear there is a hookah lounge on premises, but I have yet to see it.