Moving to Oklahoma
- Thread starter damiano
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I'm originally from Tulsa, but live down the road in Fort Smith, Arkansas. I believe the CCW laws are similar to Arkansas. Not really hard to get one, just go to the one day training, pay your money and pass the background check. They are reciprocal with Arkansas, Texas, Louisiana, Mississipi, Florida, and various other states. Should be a web site for CCW by state. Oklahoma is very pro-gun so you'll like it. Tulsa is getting big and crowded but still a good place to live. There are several indoor ranges and gun clubs (Red Castle Gun Club, if I remember right). Or just find a isolated spot on the Arkansas River to shoot.
Too bad you can't get there in October. They have a HUGE gunshow, over 3700 tables. Guns, guns guns. Only problem is it is so crowded you can't hardley move. Oh ya, its easy to get around in Tulsa once you learn the layout, lots of freeways and yes tollroads. Good deer hunting too. Hope this helps.
Too bad you can't get there in October. They have a HUGE gunshow, over 3700 tables. Guns, guns guns. Only problem is it is so crowded you can't hardley move. Oh ya, its easy to get around in Tulsa once you learn the layout, lots of freeways and yes tollroads. Good deer hunting too. Hope this helps.
http://www.osbi.state.ok.us/ Concealed Carry Info. Tulsa is a great town.
Gunslinger
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Damiano, Terri and I are in Springfield, MO, just two and a half hours up the road. Not exactly next door but you are welcome any time. 
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bullseyekp
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Oil Capital Rod and Gun Club is a pretty nice facility just SE of Tulsa about 5-10 minutes. I shoot IDPA up there once a month but I know very little about their membership rules. I believe they are a little on the pricey side, something like $700 to join. 
Anyways, if you call them I'm sure they can tell you were some public ranges are in the area.
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Anyways, if you call them I'm sure they can tell you were some public ranges are in the area.
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"The great German poet, Goethe, who also lived through a crisis of freedom, said to his generation: 'What you have inherited from your fathers, earn over again for yourselves or it will not be yours'. We inherited freedom. We seem unaware that freedom has to be remade and re-earned in each generation of man."
--Adlai Stevenson, "Politics and Morality", Saturday Review, February 7, 1959.
Have OSBI send you a CCW application packet in the mail. Apply early and expect to wait about 80-85 days before receiving the license. You must attend an 8 or 9 hour training course first (I did mine on a Sunday). Then pay a $25.00 fee to your county sheriff to have them fingerprint you, send in the app to OSBI with the fingerprints, 2 passport photos, and I think $125 for a 4-year license and wait.... Good luck, and be glad you're not moving to OKC - Tulsa is much less of an armpit - errr, I mean, much better. Can you tell I dislike my state?
Welcome! "Okie" used to be a negative term, but we just took and over and accept it now.
I live just up I-44 towards Missouri in the NE corner.
In Tulsa, the Red Castle Gun Club mentioned has CCW classes, and so do lots of other places. There's a gun show almost every weekend in either Tulsa or OKC in the summer.
Tulsa has many beautiful neighborhoods, but it's outgrown its traffic grid. The politicians in OKC snag all the highway money for themselves.
If you are going to work downtown, find a place fairly close in. No major league sports, but plenty of college (TU, OSU,). Double - A baseball, Arena 2 football, minor league hockey. Gilcrease is a great museum of western art, one of the best in the country. Philbrook is also very nice. Good music of all kinds, symphony, opera, blues bars, country western. A very religious town, but with lots of sophisticated and well-educated people. Several nice lakes nearby.
Oklahoma can be an acquired taste. It was settled by poor people, criminals, and Native Americans who didn't want to go, so there's a strong element of cynicism and mistrust of rich people and authority figures. The western part of the state is dry and windy, but the eastern part is green and filled with beautiful hills and lakes.
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I live just up I-44 towards Missouri in the NE corner.
In Tulsa, the Red Castle Gun Club mentioned has CCW classes, and so do lots of other places. There's a gun show almost every weekend in either Tulsa or OKC in the summer.
Tulsa has many beautiful neighborhoods, but it's outgrown its traffic grid. The politicians in OKC snag all the highway money for themselves.
If you are going to work downtown, find a place fairly close in. No major league sports, but plenty of college (TU, OSU,). Double - A baseball, Arena 2 football, minor league hockey. Gilcrease is a great museum of western art, one of the best in the country. Philbrook is also very nice. Good music of all kinds, symphony, opera, blues bars, country western. A very religious town, but with lots of sophisticated and well-educated people. Several nice lakes nearby.
Oklahoma can be an acquired taste. It was settled by poor people, criminals, and Native Americans who didn't want to go, so there's a strong element of cynicism and mistrust of rich people and authority figures. The western part of the state is dry and windy, but the eastern part is green and filled with beautiful hills and lakes.
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William R. Wilburn
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<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by RHC:
Oklahoma can be an acquired taste. It was settled by poor people, criminals, and Native Americans who didn't want to go, so there's a strong element of cynicism and mistrust of rich people and authority figures. [/quote]
I wondered where I got some of my attitude!
The tornados weren't too bad but I never could adjust to the water moccassins. The thought of their brown scaly selves still give me the creeps. Give me an honest rattlesnake any time.
Lots of history, if you have time to look around.
William
P.S. Stay out of places that post a "NO HATS" sign at the door.
Oklahoma can be an acquired taste. It was settled by poor people, criminals, and Native Americans who didn't want to go, so there's a strong element of cynicism and mistrust of rich people and authority figures. [/quote]
I wondered where I got some of my attitude!
The tornados weren't too bad but I never could adjust to the water moccassins. The thought of their brown scaly selves still give me the creeps. Give me an honest rattlesnake any time.
Lots of history, if you have time to look around.
William
P.S. Stay out of places that post a "NO HATS" sign at the door.