It's nice hearing gun shots outside my house

Bullseye · Sep 17, 2015

I used to live in the city, same house for 22 years, near the edge but that city is crawling with bad people anymore. Last 10 years it has become progressively evil.
Local news of a shooting and other violence, drug dealers coming in from Philly and New Jersey and overdoses is getting worse all the time. I had reported hearing gun shots to police myself on a couple occasions. I drove a 72 passenger school bus for a couple years where I had a run that went right down to the part of the city that these vermin crawl. I was threatened on many occasions by the passengers. Fights all the time.
Now the years have passed and I see some old familiar names in the newspaper or evening news where they are either victims or the perps that I hauled. Some dead, some gone to jail, and some at large.

Last year at this time, My wife was in the hospital for the 3rd time in a couple months and I went out house hunting without her.
I made a good choice. Out in the country. She loves it and so do I.

This morning, like others, I hear the neighbor firing a rifle at his range about 1/4 mile away as the crow flies. It's a nice sound. Some nights I can hear the boys up over the hill knocking off a coyote in the hay fields. Maybe doing a little whitetail crop control. Another neighbor might shoot off his revolver a couple house up the road out back on a Sunday afternoon.

I don't blink an eye, don't jump up and call 911. It's just "normal" out here. The way it should be. Grateful to wake up in America today on God's little acre.

V-fib · Sep 17, 2015

I moved to the country from Detroit in 1981. Just as I write this I can hear gunfire coming from the national forest probably hunting. when my neighbor shoots outback his house all I can think of is "that's the sound of freedom". now with ammo more available we hear gunfire esp on weekends which is nice.

v-fib

200Apples · Sep 17, 2015

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This morning, like others, I hear the neighbor firing a rifle at his range about 1/4 mile away as the crow flies. It's a nice sound. Some nights I can hear the boys up over the hill knocking off a coyote in the hay fields. Maybe doing a little whitetail crop control. Another neighbor might shoot off his revolver a couple house up the road out back on a Sunday afternoon.

I don't blink an eye, don't jump up and call 911. It's just "normal" out here. The way it should be. Grateful to wake up in America today on God's little acre.

Wonderful to hear. Thank you for a most refreshing post.

V-fib

I moved to the country from Detroit in 1981. Just as I write this I can hear gunfire coming from the national forest probably hunting. when my neighbor shoots outback his house all I can think of is "that's the sound of freedom".

You, too, fib. News such as seen/heard from these first two posts are music to my ears, so to speak.

xxjumbojimboxx · Sep 17, 2015

Here in Tejas come September first you cant go ten seconds without hearing a shotgun in the distance somewhere

I love this time of year.

PJSprog · Sep 17, 2015

Same here.

I grew up in a small city of about 40,000 on the Illinois side of the Metro St. Louis area. Spent my first 39 years there. That was about 20 years too long, unfortunately. It's a blue-collar steel town, and a downturn in the steel industry brought with it an upturn in crime and general debauchery. I looked around one day and realized that my hometown had changed drastically for the worse. I found a house in a small town (2800 people) about 25 miles to the east, and lived there in relative bliss until I remarried two years ago and moved to my wife's family farm another 15 mile east again. The sounds there are only different from my hometown in that there is actually more gunfire and no sirens to be heard. We contribute to that as often as possible. But, as others have posted, there is the sound of gunfire coming from some direction or other pretty much every day.

And I love it.

gamestalker · Sep 17, 2015

Funny, my wife and I also made the same decision about 12 years ago. we used to hear gun shots almost daily, and it wasn't friendly neighbors shooting at yote or other varmints, it was drug dealing thugs shooting it out with each other. we finally got so sick of it, and got sick of having to deal with the over whelming presence of criminals breathing down our necks, so we moved out to the country, away from all that.

Now when we hear shots fired, we know it's just a neighbor protecting his live stock, or maybe just someone target practicing, makes us feel good to know we have country folk living around us, instead of thugs. Oh, were not completely without crime out here, but the gang activity doesn't exist out here. The worst that anyone out here deals with is the now and then minor theft, but even that's a rare event.

GS

Osageid · Sep 17, 2015

Any given day in my neighborhood you will many of us shooting. Most of us have ranges behind our homes. If anyone casing the neighborhood I doubt they stick around long- between double taps or AR's going off- aw my slice of heavan

Zaydok Allen · Sep 18, 2015

I left the city 11 years ago and moved to a town of 2200 people in the middle of nowhere. People give each other space. They are courteous for the most part. They wave to their neighbors. And there are guns everywhere. In fact it would be a really safe bet that there are as many guns in my town, if not more guns, than there are people.

Shooting within city limits is illegal, but outside of town on the National Forest, if you are being safe, it's legal to shoot just about everywhere.

Living in the country is good! There's no going back for me.

MtnCreek · Sep 18, 2015

xxjumbojimboxx said:
Here in Tejas come September first you cant go ten seconds without hearing a shotgun in the distance somewhere I love this time of year.

So that's where all the birds are this year.

grogetr · Sep 19, 2015

Yep most weekends and some evenings I can hear shooting in several directions. One neighbor even breaks out the 50 cal to punch holes through some steel plate once in a while.

jlr1962 · Sep 19, 2015

One of the local outdoor ranges is now "unflooded", still a big mess to clean up, but they are making progress. Most of the range is open. Nice to hear outdoor gunfire. Don't get me wrong, I like indoor shooting. But shooting rifles outside rocks.

jlr1962 · Sep 19, 2015

I have at least a dozen dove in the backyard at any given time this time of year.

ColoradoShooter77 · Sep 19, 2015

My house borders the Pike National Forest in Colorado, so I hear gunshots, hundreds of them every weekend. It doesn't bother me at all.

Its also pretty awesome, my shooting hole is only a 1.5 mile drive.

Wishoot · Sep 19, 2015

I left that cesspool known as Chicago 12 years ago and moved to semi-rural Wisconsin. Only wish I had done it sooner. I'm still close enough to the city to enjoy what it has to offer, but I'm far enough away to enjoy what small town life has to offer.

The front of my house overlooks a huge farm where deer, geese and turkey are harvested. In season, it's not uncommon to hear the sound of rifles or shotguns early in the morning.

I thoroughly enjoy the sound and participate in the harvest too.

redneck2 · Sep 19, 2015

I lived on a lake in rural Indiana. Most of the owners are out of the Chicago area and come out on the weekends.

Next door neighbors just bought their house and were there for the first time. Guy across the road starts target shooting. They kinda cringe and look that way, wondering what is going on.

I just smile and say "that's the reason you never have to worry about your place". They just started laughing.

Ended up taking them and their kids shooting multiple times.

GarySTL · Sep 19, 2015

I lived for 32 years not far from Ferguson Missouri. You might have heard of it?
12 years ago we bought 5 acres about 45 miles west just south of the county seat.
Most of the neighbors shoot on their property. If I hear shots I get one of my guns and go join in. The Sheriff is happy to sign off on my NFA toys too.

CoalTrain49 · Sep 21, 2015

I live on a rural island. I hear people shooting everyday. One private range about a mile from me gets a lot of action. Another neighbor a few thousand feet from me cranks up about every week. One neighbor about 500' from me shoots a few times a year on his property.

I don't shoot on my property, although I could legally, to save stress on the dogs and people near by. I've had the sheriff call several times to respond to calls from pavement dwellers who recently move here. I tell them where it's coming from and they say they already know, just showing the badge to calm the jittery neighbors down a little.

Great place to live. Never had a problem with a break in and I've been here 20 years.

Spats McGee · Sep 21, 2015

sigsmoker said:
It's nice hearing gun shots outside my house

It sure beats hearing gunshots inside your house!

Seriously, though, good choice.

Vern Humphrey · Sep 21, 2015

I've lived here, in Stone County Arkansas, for 16 years now -- I bought the land in 1969 and built a house on it in 1999. I'm 3/4s of a mile off the county road, deep in the woods with only one other family on my access road -- and we all shoot. In fact, my neighbor, who only recently bought his place, has asked me to take him deer hunting.

joem1945 · Sep 21, 2015

I live in a rural area. There are gun shots once in a while but i don't care. I have a neighbor that declared war on moles in his yard and tree rats. On moles he uses a 12 ga same for tree rats. He may sit in a lawn chair until he sees movement and then shoots the ground. He gets pretty many that way.

MartinS · Sep 21, 2015

Gunfire and no sirens, a healthy neighborhood.

SSN Vet · Sep 23, 2015

The Rod n Gun club I belong to is 3 miles down the road. I'm often surprised how clearly I can hear gun fire from that direction on some days.

I can set my watch on Saturday mornings by the opening of the trap range. They all fire a volley at the beginning of their first round of the day.

telomerase · Sep 23, 2015

Of course if we lived in a free country suppressors wouldn't be restricted and you wouldn't hear anything

It's a big problem in NH, too much noise from the ranges as the population builds up.

evosmash · Sep 29, 2015

I do not have that luxury. I am jealous

nettlle · Sep 29, 2015

Both my neighbors shoot. Saturday one neighbor called to say they had a friend deer hunting behind their house and asked that I not shoot for fear of spooking the deer. I told them OK. Sunday I called to ask them if anyone was hunting. They said no and thanked me for my consideration and kindness.

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