Job Prospect in Claremore, OK. What's it like?

[hillbilly]

Anyone have experience or knowledge of the Claremore, OK, area?

And, since it's about 25 miles from Tulsa, what's the firearms scene like there?

Any good ranges? Besides the big gun museum in Claremore, are there any other rally cool gun-related places or activities around there?

thanks,

hillbilly

 

[Hoop]

I hear there is a HUGE gun show in Tulsa twice a year. I haven't been but a co-worker goes annually. He said it's something you have to see to believe.

 

[El Cid]

I just got back from the BIGGEST GUN SHOW IN AMERICA! It was worth it!
IN Tulsa!
Ther is the J. M. Davis Gun Museum in Claremore!
The Red Castle Gun Club shoots at Sand Springs Just west of Tulsa.
Gilcrease Museum.
Lots of gun shops all over the area!
Good hunting and fishing!
The worst traffic is now out near the Woodland Hills Mall way to the south in Tulsa. The rest of the town is fairly easy to get around in except during the rush hour.

 

[El Cid]

Oh, yes, there is also several smaller gun shows about once a month in Tulsa!

 

[Nightfa11]

The Tulsa Gun Show is something else. I haven't been to it for a LONG time (my dad was an 01 FFL in the day when you could do that on weekends at Gun Shows) but I remember being exhausted trying to see everything.

We used to go to a show in Claremore a couple of times a year. Not a terribly large show, IIRC but it was always one of his more successful ones. It's a small town, and everyone seemed friendly but this was over 10 years ago....almost 20 for that matter. I've always liked Oklahoma and Oklahomans...except the weather.

 

[another okie]

Claremore is a pleasant town, lots of outdoor and cowboy types. Plenty of good fishing in the area. It's close enough to the urban stuff in Tulsa to make it easy to get anything you want there. Like a lot of smaller cities 30 miles from a larger city, it's becoming a commuter or bedroom community. The landscape is rolling hills, mostly ranching and not as much farming. Climate, people, landscape, and gun laws are not that different than northwest Arkansas. In fact, the Walton family's in-laws, the Robsons, used to be based there and may still be, so there's another Arkansas connection.

There's a good gun store in Claremore, but it's mostly oriented towards hunting guns. Tulsa is a major hub for guns - a gun show just about every ten minutes, lots of good gun stores, and a northside gang war going on right now to remind you to carry your piece!

Lots and lots of gun clubs in the area. Red Castle is on the other side of Tulsa, so it's a little bit of a drive from Claremore. Oil Capitol is east of Broken Arrow and much easier to reach from Claremore, though more expensive. There are a few others mostly focussed on skeet, trap, and sporting clays, but Red Castle and Oil Capitol have about everything - IDPA, IPSC, shotgun sports, rifle ranges, etc.

One thing you definitely should be aware of in Claremore is that a very large percentage of the population has a small amount of Cherokee blood, and is proud of it. Most don't look Indian at all; in fact our Congressman, Brad Carson, is one of those blond-haired Cherokees.

 

[hillbilly]

Thanks, another okie.

Sounds like a fun place.

I've been all over Eastern Oklahoma.

No worries about the Cherokees. I used to live about 12 miles from Sequoyah's cabin. I know the real word is actually something like Tsa La Gi, not Cherokee.

Heck, I'm a red-headed Natchez Indian myself....Only 1/64th, but the Natchez haven't really existed as a people since the 1770s....tactical mistake of allying with the British in French-held Mississippi during the French-Indian Wars.

But it's been documented that my great great great uncle was Watt Sam, the last known speaker of Natchez and a full blood. His half-brother (same mother, different fathers) was 1/2, so my great grandfather was 1/4, my grandfather 1/16, my father 1/32, and I am 1/64. At least I think that's how all the fractions and parts break down. It's been a while since I read and studied it.

I've got good friends who are Adawe (Ottawa to us white eyes) and I've been up to Copan, OK, for the Delaware Powwow a couple of times.

No problem with Cherokees. Although my buddy who is Ottawa, has a few problems with Cherokees from time to time.......

hillbilly

 

[Shanghai McCoy]

I'll chime in that Claremore is a nice town.That area of Oklahoma has many good clubs.We used to shoot at Oil Capitol,muzzleloader,and belonged to Red Castle for most of the years that we lived there.Then we had to move to Kansas...... I miss Oklahoma.

 

[Blue Line]

Oil Capitol is the Best Range!

I just moved from Broken Arrow a little over a year ago. Belonged to To the Oil Capitol Rod and Gun Club, sold the membership when I left for more than I bought it. Lots of folks want in cause its such a great place. Two lakes to fish in, Trap and Skeet, 200 yd, 100 yd and 50yd rifle ranges, Archery ranges etc etc etc. It was a great place to take the kids to ride bikes and fly kites or fish. Talk about fireworks, my kids loved the 4 th of July at the gun club cause it was like three displays all evening, the 200yd range was shut down and you could set your firecrackers off, watch other folks shoot off thiers and then after that the club put on a nice show. Beat driving into Tulsa and kids loved it. My daughther shot her first rounds there. Won a new fishin outfit for catching the biggest fish during the 4th fishing contest etc etc etc.
The club has many many sub groups in it. Cowboy shooters, IDPA, IPSC, Military Bolt Action, Bullseye, the always kidded Air rifle group, Muzzleloaders, Every two or three months there was a big Trap or skeet shoot. I LOVED that place!!! Each member got a code to the gate and could come and go as you please. There is a website for the Tater Hill Regulators thats the Cowboy shooter group there. The man and wife that run it are good shootin folks and the wife is the secratary of the club. Its warm enough to shoot nearly all winter, maybe one or two snows to amount to anything. Dryer than a popcorn fart all summer, even cold drinks don't get condesation out there. Watch for Twisters but I never saw any but had some grand lighting out there.

Love Tulsa and the Oil Capitol Rod and Gun Club. Its a great group of people. Two meetings a month, one is bussiness and the other is casual with dinner usually cooked up by one of the sub groups.

Claremore is a nice town like the rest of Oklahoma, Patti Page is from there. The economy is down so that my help with house buying. Watch out for meth out there its ruining people. Good luck

 

[auldpharght]

WELCOME...if you're passing through.

If you're from out of state, Claremore is a dinky little widespot in a two-lane dirty road. There's no electricity or indoor plumbing. The strains of "Dueling Banjo's" still hangs in the air...

You shouldn't consider a job there in a hundred years...''specially if you're a Yankee! I hear Detroit is hiring...then there's Montpelier...

Auldpharght

 

[another okie]

I wasn't trying to say there was anything wrong with the fact that there are so many Cherokees. Just a reminder to to be careful what you say. Sometimes folks who are not from Oklahoma and haven't grown up around Indians don't realize how many of us Okies are Indians and have a tendency to say some... ummm... insensitive things.

Like (I'm not making these up):

"Do you still have to go into the fort at night to hide from the Indians?"

"You're an Indian? Do you still take scalps?"

"You're an Indian? Do you speak English?"

"I like Indians. In fact, my grandmother was a full-blooded Cherokee princess." (Note for the uninitiated: no such thing as a Cherokee princess, and if she was full-blood, you would be one-quarter at a minimum and would have a card.)

 

[hillbilly]

Another okie, I'm just funning you some.

But my friend has a word for all the white folks whose grandmothers were Cherokee Princesses....

They are all members of the Wanabey tribe. Pronounced "Wah-NAH-bay." Joke form of "wanna be."

In fact, he was once telling us about all the folks who tell him they are Indian too. He said it's almost always a grandmother and she's almost always Half-Cherokee.

Later that day, we were in the Steamboat Arabia museum in Kansas City (great museum, by the way. That boat sank with a whole 1850s Wal-Mart load of stuff, including a ton of single-shot pistols). Anyway, he was checking out the stores of the glass beads that were on the ship, as he does traditional beadwork.

The girl behind the counter in the museum store started talking to him, and yeah, that's right, she said, almost on cue, "Hey, I'm Indian too. My grandmother was half-Cherokee."

I had to grab the railing to keep from roaring with laughter.


hillbilly

 

[berettaman]

If you're more than a third generation Okie,then you're some n'th indian.No I'm not a "Native American", I'm a 1/32 card carrying Deleware indian and you couldn't pick me out in a crowd of Norwegian folk dancers.

Claremore is a growing little city.It still has it's country charm but it's slowly changing.Probably for the good but you never know.I don't know what he job situation is like there though.

 

[hillbilly]

Hey berrettaman, you been to any Delaware powwows in Copan in the last two years?


If so, we were at the same place and didn't even know it.

hillbilly

 

[zpo]

Wanenmacher(sp?) is the big show. Grand National is the next biggest.


"The Expo Center provides 354,000 square feet of column-free space under a cable-suspended roof. The building spans 448,400 total square feet on two levels, connected by side ramps and stairs. "

The big one takes up both levels, and has small crowded aisles. Grand just takes the top. (the top is the 354000 and the bottom is the rest) More likely to find what you want at the big one (this last one was the Browning Collectors, lots of Brownings) but you'll find the better deals on more stuff at Grand. I don't find the smaller ones to be worth admission yet, but I hope they grow. Claremore has a nice new Civic Center that has gun and outdoor shows (and other shows) You can look up schedules below.

http://www.claremore.org/

http://www.exposquare.com/