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Used to make training flights into Tinker AFB. Have been to an all-night rodeo in Ardmore. That's about the extent of it.

As a state, I guess it's OK.

Oklahoma? Which one? Southeast Oklahoma isn’t like Northeast Oklahoma. Tulsa ain’t like Oklahoma City. The Wichitas ain’t like the Ouachitas. And from places in the Panhandle you’re closer to Denver than Oklahoma City.

Granddad's family homesteaded in Indian Territory, and everywhere else the grass was supposed to be greener, until Kim, Colorado took the pioneer spirit out of them for good.

This guy has the lowdown. I have friends or family, live or have lived myself in all of these areas and they truly are very different places. I like the wind and the open spaces so I’ll not be caught on the east side of I35 for any longer than necessary. I love the Panhandle but to live there a man had better be tough and it’d be best if he’d already made his fortune someplace else as it’ll be hard to come by out there.

Place I'm sitting on was a "homestead". Don't know what was chasing the wife's great grandfather, but he came here in 1904.

The place has NO redeeming features! Red clay with elm and black locust trees. .....and encroaching mesquite!
About the only thing worth the effort was that the clay WILL grow grain!

Seventy four now and have been living here for a little over 43 years....can't complain.

been here 45 years. happy to call it home.

My father was president of the Oklahoma City Gun Club for many years and I spent a LOT of my childhood on that property. He and my brother and I were all in the Oklahoma National Guard. I left when I went active duty in the Army. I spent nearly 30 years away and have only started going back recently.


Okie John

Okie from Muskogee?

I was born in Tulsa, moved to Texas when I was about 1.5 years old, been here ever since. My Grandfather was proud that he was born in Indian Territory.

I have not

Rogers, and Hammerstein didn't wright a musical about Iowa.

Well I never been to heaven.

But I been to Oklahoma.

Born here, probably die here. Been here 74 years and counting.

Our dads were probably friends. My dad was a charter member when the Gun Club started. He once drove a road grader to Arcadia when they were building roads and backstops on the club property. I also had home movies of the National Guard using dynamite to remove rock to build the bullseye (Conventional/Precision) pistol course. I spent a lot of time in the pit pulling targets on the high power range. I'm still a member of the club but don't compete. I may sight in a rifle at the bench rest targets but I can't give up the membership.

I know parts of Oklahoma pretty well
if I ever moved from Missouri Oklahoma would be one of the first States I would prefer to move to.

probably like Oklahoma Texas then a number 3 would be Kansas if it were not for being politics like it is nowadays (I lived in St John Kansas for awhile several years ago)
the number three instead of Kansas might be Louisiana.

One set of Great Grandparents and one set of Grandparents homesteaded in SW Oklahoma Territory in 1898 and 1900 respectively. Mom and Dad rode out the Dust Bowl when the wimps went to Kalifornia. I've never lived anywhere else, yeah, I guess I qualify as being from the Sooner State.

I graduated from Norman High School. And I went to college at OU. When I was younger I’d go up to NE Oklahoma often and float the Illinois River and jump off of those cliffs at Lake Tenkiller. When I was older, I spent a LOT of time in the Wichita Mountains. I love the Wichita Mountains; I’ve hiked and climbed all over em.’ Some of the Charon's Garden Wilderness Area part of the Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge is some of the most tortured landscape that I’ve ever seen. Elk Mountain in particular is a pretty special place.

Bud Wilkenson?