Very strange thing

Not even 5min ago I heard just outside my house a very load noise that I could only describe as a gun shot. It was just outside my house but my dog didn't even freak out. I went outside and found him hiding in his dog house. I am not sure if it was actually a gun shot or not but it definetly sounded like one and I am debating wether or not to call the cops. What do you guys think? Am I just being paranoid?

Make sure no one is shooting at your dog. Past that no dont call the cops unless you are 100% positive that it was a gunshot otherwise you will just ring up the crime log in your area which makes your house value less (and it wastes officers time)

I've looked around and decided it probably wasn't a gun shot.

Check your dog for a .22 or pellet gun wound.

I was also going to suggest you really check your dog well.

Wierd your dog didn't bark though. I was reading in an NRA book about how dogs and cats who are not trained to be used to it can react very badly to the loud sound of guns going off. I wonder if you poor pooch could be in a type of shock.

I am sure you know the difference but I sometimes hear fire crackers and still wonder what they are. I hope to get better attuned to these sounds in time.

Pretty close to the Fourth of July, isn't it?

I'm still hearing a couple of cracks and booms.

But: Yes, check your pup.

Could it have been a nearby power transformer blowing out?

Last year at my cabin I had something like that happen. I was out back chopping wood and heard what I KNEW was a high powered rifle of some kind firing towards me from close. I dropped and low crawled to the cabin and grabbed my 10/22 which I had ready to go if that pesky marmot came back :evil:.

Worked my way around the cabin getting ready to draw on whomever did it and chew their ass for shooting so close to a building and saw that the tire had blown on the wheelbarrow hanging on the side. :banghead:

I don't even interrupt a sentence when I hear gunshot-like firecrackers and such outside, because I hear them so often.

Tell me if I'm the only kid who did this, but when I was young, while wandering around the neighborhood with friends I would find unexploded firecrackers from those chains that still had some fuse left and screw around with them, blowing them up and scalding my hands and endangering my hearing. We did this even more than a month after the 4th (and new years too if it wasn't always raining so much.

Check your dog, and if s/he is fine, I would dismiss it as just some kids with some fireworks.

41MagSub,
I'm sorry,but I laughed when I read the end of your story.
Made my day!:D
Thanks,
Doug

Lets see if I have this right, you hear what you thought might be gunshot, and you get on the Internet to ask a bunch of strange strangers what to do ( who may not even be in the US ) ?? I do believe you need to get out in the sun a little more:)

It's not that much past July 4th, still a lot of firecrackers, cherry bombs, m80s
etc, out there. As far as calling the cops over gun shots, nope won't ever do that again unless I see the shooting or someone has holes in them. Many years ago when we lived in a duplex in Rancho Cordova, near Sacramento CA I was working out of town. About 2 in the morning my wife is woken up by gunfire right outside the window. She calls 911. 911 operator tells her your just going to have to get used to it because that happens all the time around here. Operator then hangs up. When I got home a couple days later I found 7 9mm casings out in the yard 10 feet from the bedroom window. Two weeks later we moved.

Not wanting to hi-jack the thread but last night around 10 wife and i are in bed
hot, windows open trying to go to sleep. I kept hearing gunshots in the distance. Two shots close together the a third just a bit slower in rythym with the first 2. Maybe the whole string lasted 1-1/2 seconds. Boom..Boom.......Boom. occasionally there'd be a single or two, but nearly all were three shots. They went on for at least a half hour to an hour. The gun club across the river from me has evening trap shooting but their lights were dark. I don't think it was foul play maybe some LEO'S taking practicing drills. Just wondering what they were doing.

I don't really get worked up by shooting as I hear shots nearly every day. Never called the police. Sometimes I go investigate if the shooting continues. I guess you get used to what sounds normal in your neighborhood.

I think if I lived in a city I might feel differently but what difference would it make? The police won't really care or do anything about it.

Ya know that guy that killed his wife while she was singing just nailed himself.
Wonder if this was anywhere by you ?
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070718/ap_on_re_us/singer_shooting;_ylt=AsEpHAUdeogIhLi6iFOgFWPMWM0F

LARAMIE, Wyo. - A military sharpshooter accused of killing his estranged wife as she sang at a bar died Tuesday night after being found with a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the chest, police said.

Wyoming Army National Guardsman David Munis was found by a search team at about 7:45 p.m. after police received an anonymous call from a man who spotted Munis at a small camping trailer in a remote area about 15 miles north of Laramie and about five miles outside the search area, Albany County Sheriff's Lt. Michael Garcia said.

He had shot himself in the chest with a high-power rifle, Garcia said.

http://news.yahoo.com/photo/070716/480/472435eae8e64f009d23e8e77247dc37&g=events/us/071607munisshooting;_ylt=AkFUrMR2kt7bQH5RpKoWWAFH2ocA

He had shot himself in the chest with a high-power rifle.

Uh huh.... sure.

BTW if I lived in a semirural or rural area and was hearing multiple shots after dark, my first thought would be poachers.