Posted: 8/7/2004 9:14:39 PM EDT
| Besides Bass Pro Shops, whats to see and do? I am at Fort Leonard Wood for the next four months for WOBC. |
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If you're at FLW, you're only about 4 hours or so from the worlds largest gunshow! The Tulsa show is in October and you could take the weekend to visit. If you buy a gun, I'd even let you store it at my place. I'm in Rolla, just up 44 about 30 minutes from you. If you want some awesome catfish, try Moorland's up 63 north of Rolla. Outstanding catfish but be sure to have reservations. It's a hole-in-the-wall but very popular. Be sure to hit the St. Louis Zoo. It's free unless you park in their parking lot and then you have to pay $8 for parking. There is plenty of parking along the street around the zoo but you may have to walk a little ways. Check out the museum complex at FLW. It's a nice place and has sections for Engineer, Chemical, MP, and FLW history. They also have a WWII barracks area set up like WWII. If you brought your weapons, you can shoot at the POW range but all weapons have to be registered with FLW. The range is across the street from range control south of the airfield. There are a couple places to shoot around Rolla. There's a club closer to FLW but I can't remember where it is. You have to be a member I believe and they do a lot of IPSC stuff. I usually just go south of town and shoot in the forest land. There is a decent place where lots of people shoot. No lanes or anything, just the side of a hill with two areas about 50 meters and 100 meters long. Also an open field where people shoot a lot of skeet. You can go trout fishing on Big and Little Piney and any number of other places around here. Lots of fishing. You can also go hiking or camping in the national forest. I work at the University of Missouri-Rolla Army ROTC department. Check out the website at www.umr.edu/~arotc. I'm the enrollment officer. Just noticed your screen name. I have a Dane Winchester if you want to shoot sometime. |
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If you enjoy zoos, go see the St. Louis zoo. It's ranked among the top three zoos in the world, they being London, San Diego and STL. Personally, STL is better than San Diego. I've not been to London. STL worth the trip up north. Take a conoe float down one of the rivers in your area. If you want hordes of people (and women in skimpy bikinis) go on a weekend. If you want solitude, go on a weekday. Be sure to take a float during the fall when the trees change-it's a sight to rival the picture postcard scenes from Vermont or NH. |
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Among other "sights of interest" in Missouri. Graf & Sons is a big reloader wholesaler with stores in Mexico Mo, and in St. Charles. Midway, HUGE reloader and gun supplies is located near Columbia. There is a nationally famous shooting school located in Mexico Mo run by Ray Chapman, one of the first ISPC champs. In St. Louis, the Arch has a great Lewis & Clark/Westward expansion museum under the Arch with a selection of St. Louis Hawken rifles. The National Museum of Transportation in St. Louis has, among other neat things, the largest locomotive ever built. It was built to haul iron ore over the Rockies. THE ANHEUSER BUSCH BREWERY. Free tours, with sample beer. The brewery is a MUST SEE when in Missouri, WELL worth the trip. Grant's Farm. General U.S. Grant's old farm operated by the Busch family. As I recall, there's a long fence there made up of Civil War rifle barrels. The Busch Clydesdale Horses are here. Lake of the Ozarks. A huge central Missouri resort lake. Accommodations from nice to PLUSH. Western Missouri is Jessie James/outlaw/Missouri Border Ruffians and Bushwhackers country. There are a number of big caves in Missouri, open to the public. If you SCUBA dive there's a flooded mine with carefully guided SCUBA tours. Kansas City and St. Louis have pro sport's teams. Missouri is gun country. Check phone books for plenty of good gun shops. If you "Yehaaa" there's the Country-Western redneck resort in Branson Mo. This is in Southern Missouri. MOST of the Country-Western biggies have theaters here, and apparently it's a HUGE area, with something for everybody. Hunting and fishing is BIG in Missouri. Missouri is now a Right To Carry state. We honor ALL permits. If you have a permit ANYWHERE, it's valid here. Carrying a concealed pistol in your car requires NO permit at all. |
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I might have to take you up on that one. I didn't bring any POW's up I wanted to see what hurdles I would ahve to jump through and how the course flow was going to be, but if everything pans out like I expect my kayack and some firearms will come up next time I go home on a weekend. I was here in 93/94 for basic and AIT.... man has this place grown! I spent the day exploring post and much has changed. Tell me what good surplus stores are around. I run one as my civilian job and always am looking for ones to check out and deal with. |
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The Niangua, Meramec and Bourbouse rivers if you like canoeing and smallmouth bass/panfish fishing. It's too far for me here in Springfield, but I hear tell that FLW has some pretty daing good hunting on it. And you're surrounded by Mark Twain National Forest. Congrats on graduating from WOCS, that is no small feat 
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