Missoula Montana

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Hey guys, I was just wondering about this little place, I may be getting transfered to the area and just wanted to know how gun friendly the state and town are I looked at packing.org, but I just wanted to know if anybody here has any personel experience with the town and there overall outlook on guns. Thanks in advance for any opinions.

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BDLS,
Can we come visit you during the summer after you get located in Missoula? What beautiful country. We love to vacation in the Rocky Mountains from southern Colorado to northern Montana. Don't think I would like the winters up there. Best of luck to you.

Good shooting and be safe.
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All I know about Montana is that I just got back from a week of skiing in the Bozeman area and would have done just about anything to have stayed forever.

You are a lucky devil.
 
I visted the city the summer of 1999 with a girlfriend who was from Kalispell area. it is a very beatiful area to vist. But I don't like the city. It is seems to be typical progressive university town with alot of college kids wandering the streets. The university is the major center and basicaly runs the city. I have never seen so many hippies in my life, they seem to flock to that area in the summer. Though there is a seedy underbelly to it, there are alot of rough people, loggers, and homeless people milling around. The downtown was at the time going through a renovation plan to bring in more high end businesses but I don't believe it was working that well. I personally did not like the feel of it. I heard there was conflict between the university kids and the rough necks that spilled out into bar fights etc. It kinda is like a mill town that was taken over by the University. I heard the winters can be long and dreary do to the weather. Another note is the city is in a basin surrounded by mountains and on cold days the pollution from the paper mills does not circulate out of the basin. Similar to LA during high smog days. Many people like to live outside the city because of the smog. I have no idea about the gun laws in the city. Though Montana is know to be a gun firendly state. Even the liberals own guns out there.
 
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Missoula is probably the most liberal place in the state, but it is still very gun freindly, as is the whole state. It is nice, but too cloudy for me. There is a University college there and lot of college type stuff. Good fishing nearby too.
 
Well, I rough necked for a while in west Texas and now live in Seattle working in the oil field, so maybe ill blend in.
 
Montana Trueisms you will discover to be true:

Montana has 9 months of winter and 3 months of relatives.

The best way to make a small fortune in Montana, is to bring a large one with you when you come.
 
I live 13 miles to the south of Missoula in a small town called Florence. Missoula is a pretty hippie/greenie-weenie town but once you get outside of missoula, there are alot of small, downhome places like Stevensville (which is home to cooper arms), Frenchtown, Bonner, and Lolo. Just be carefull of Bitteroot drivers. They drive like little old ladies and don't use their blinkers.:)
 
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No offense its just that 60,000 people is a suburb were I live now, the town I came frome before Seattle though had huge popualation of about 400, good ol' Wink Texas.:D
 
Welcome to the area ! I think you will like Missoula. Unless your a couch potato, You will find plenty of things to do. There a two really good pawnshops in town that should fulfill any of your shooting needs. I live about 40 miles out of town, if you do not like tiny overcrowded streets, you might look into this option as well. Good thing that your coming here with a job. Good ones are hard to find around this area. If you need any more info on the area, send me a PM.
 
It is on a refined petroluem products pipeline similar to what I do now, Its not actuall on a crude oil pipeline, but still considered oil field. Although I did cut my teeth on a crude line.
 
Yup... "Gun Control" means being a good shot, here in MT.

Like has already been said, Missoula is the most liberal town in our state.....

In reality that means it would still be ultra-conservative by folks in Seattle, or anywhere on the left coast. Those hippie looking kids in Missoula are the non resident forestry students. :p
 
Those hippie looking kids in Missoula are the non resident forestry students.
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These where not college kids. And it was not a few of them but hundreds. The ones we meet during that summer where travlers from all over the country that go to the mountains around Missoula to live. They ranged from ages of early teens to their thrities. Though most where in there late teens early twenties. A few of them where taking classes at the U, most of the ones we talked to all seem to have run away from privilaged homes, and many never completed high school. They are social drop outs that live a nomatic communal life style. They travel in carvans of old RVs, converted school buses and VW buses. They sell dope and homemade wears on the street corners to support themselves. When fall comes they move on to warmer climates. Its really facinating to see but a bit smelly.
 
One of the kids I grew up with has lived in Lolo, east of Missoula, for 25+ years. We have visited a few times and always had a wonderful time. If the neighbors complain about shooting in the back yard (not likely) you can always drive 10 minutes to the mountains.

Missoula is the most liberal city in MT according to him and my brother in Great Falls. I wish my city was that liberal. They both swear that it is a dry cold - sort of like AZ has a dry heat. I wore a down vest when we went down to the crick at night in August.

Enjoy! We'll be out sometime in mid-July. can we bring anything besides guns and ammo?
 
Montana has 9 months of winter and 3 months of relatives.
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Nope; grew up 80 miles SE . . . Missoula is liberal, but still gun-friendly, & by local standards is "a big city." Montana has 4 distinct seasons: Almost Winter, Winter, Still Winter, & Road Construction, but it's truly "the Last Great Place" & I will move back! Take the job . . .
 
folks in Montana wouldn't consider Missoula to be a "little place
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Yep. Missoula is also pretty liberal as others have said, but Bozeman has it's share of idiots too.
Missoula is the only place that I have run into Meathead Hippies, who are basically Meathead/Jock morons who look like Hippies, very odd combination.
Try to avoid at all costs. (The Meathead Hippies that is)
 
I know one of the cops there. She's a nice person, but don't mess with her on duty. Maybe she'll show up in this thread.
 
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