The sound of gunshot

I hear a lot of gunfire at night, mostly in the farmland that stretches down toward the Rio.
Lots of wild hog hunters around here.
Nothing like a pack of wild hogs to tear up a farm - or a neighborhood.

-And yes, they're building the Wall through the county right now... .

F1 said:

I am, of course, pro second amm., but I wouldn't like to live in a place with constant gunfire - most especially if it happened in the middle of the night - because then not only would it wake me up but I'd figure it was drunks shooting randomly.

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Reminds me of when I lived, for a few years, on the SW side of Okla City in what could charitably be called a "gritty" neighborhood.
Gunfire in the middle of the night was a regular occurrence, and I can assure you the shooters were neither drunk, nor shooting randomly.

bdickens said:

Humor looses something when you explain it.

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Yep

Hooda Thunkit said:

Reminds me of when I lived, for a few years, on the SW side of Okla City in what could charitably be called a "gritty" neighborhood.
Gunfire in the middle of the night was a regular occurrence, and I can assure you the shooters were neither drunk, nor shooting randomly.

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Yeah, or worse.

But when I'm camping out in the wilderness and hear gunshots at night that's what i think and it makes me very nervous.

bdickens said:

Humor looses something when you explain it.

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Ah, just needed the smily.

I live in one of those HOA / POA hoods and there is a farm bordering it and a lake that has ducks. It also has the horror of all horrors, "NEXT DOOR" and that website, that only my wife subscribes to, (not me) is a great source of humor when the farm dudes get to shootin' and the duck hunters open up at 7 AM.
The hood also has a good supply of thems from northern states, like myself, from places like N.J.etc.
Needless to say, "NEXT DOOR" lights up complaining about the gunfire which is music to my ears.
You folk that have lots of land to unload on don't know how lucky you are.

I live in a fairly rural area of Texas, but still within the city limits of San Marcos and can tell you a guy burned off about 250 rounds from an AK or AR a couple of Sunday's ago. He sounded about half a mile away. Only the one time in the 6 weeks we've lived here.

It's always polite to avoid shooting a half case starting just after daybreak on opening day. Keeps the guys on the neighbors deer lease happy.

If it's rural it's your land. Where I live you can shoot as long as you use common sense. People don't like it when stray rounds start landing in their pool during the pool party.

We do occasionally get a complaint about using high powered rifles with thermal scopes on wild hogs at 3:00 AM.

I often wonder what y'all Yan... ahhh... Northerners that move in down here think about noon on the 1st Saturday in September when the war starts and y'all are on the porch and start hearing the rain pattering in the their trees out of a clear sky.

If you are one of the unlucky individuals who were not born in paradise that's opening day of dove season.

I can tell you what I thought.....whahooo....I gotta get in on this!!

tarosean said:

I dont shoot on my property as my horses are deathly afraid.

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Horses are what came to mind for me. They are smart, but individualistic from my experience. Some don't seem to care. Others develop PTSD from repeated noises that spook them, and it can change their behavior over time. An owner would not appreciate a well mannered horse becoming skittish due to repeated noise.

But I've only had limited experience with horses, and do not have any of my own.

Free range cattle I've spent a lot of time around. I was shooting in the woods one day and a heard was eating grass maybe a quarter mile away. I was shooting a 3" 357 magnum with self defense loads. After shooting for awhile I turned around and 5 of them were standing about 20 feet behind me, watching me, and trying to figure out what I was doing. They just stood there...………….. I felt so judged.

460Shooter said:

They just stood there...………….. I felt so judged.

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That must have been a rather moooving experience.

BuckWildM9 said:

Texas kinda sounds like the promise land

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Well, it isn't but I would bet it's better than where he lives.

.308 Norma said:

That must have been a rather moooving experience.

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Nice one!

Do what I did. Silencers.
An -06 with out a can could be heard like 5 miles away easy depending on the wind.
A good can could cut that down to around a mile. But it depends a lot on ammo and how far you shoot. Supersonic bullets make a lot of noise on their own so depends how far you shoot and if the bullet stays supersonic the whole trip. For a 30-06 it's probably supersonic the whole way.
There's also non regulated silencers, like a conveniently placed horizontal stack of tires works, but not nearly as effective as a screw on.

I live in rural MO....have a range on my property and will shoot center fire rifle on that range.

When I first moved in 20-ish years ago it was all people with a minimum of 15-20ac.....I have right at 13. Every night in the summer you can hear gun fire.....every night. In winter months at least once a week.

A farm sold out....really two did, but more on that later....the first houses went up very quick on little 3-5ac lots....some of these people put two horses on these little now mud covered chunks of land. Shooters started getting visits from the county sheriff.....I also have a clay thrower and practice that in the back "yard". They would visit, ask to see where we did the shooting....a little hike....then say it was safe and file their reports. They came out for about a month...then it stopped.

I have a feeling I know who was calling.....she ran house to house trying to get things changed....as far as I know everyone was nice to her but would not sign. She also got the ball rolling to get our road paved....everyone on our road signed this one, and it cost those on the road...$300-$500....I don't remember. Then she tried to have school districts changed....that did not go well for her as well.

You are getting the idea on this person.

This is what is coming in from other states....bent on changing things to the way they want.....some times for good, paved road, no gravel dust....sometimes for the worse, changing schools or gunz.

Point is if they can do it so can the other side.

460Shooter said:

Horses are what came to mind for me. They are smart, but individualistic from my experience. Some don't seem to care. Others develop PTSD from repeated noises that spook them, and it can change their behavior over time. An owner would not appreciate a well mannered horse becoming skittish due to repeated noise..

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Very learned.. It was my old Doc Bar grandson who past away at 25yrs, whom was deathly afraid. He instilled it in the younger ones and it keeps on trickling through the years.

So I just shoot my bows at home as I love my horses just as much as shooting guns.

CB's out of a .22 Bolt. Makes less noise than an air gun and don't need to go the paperwork.

tarosean said:

Very learned.. It was my old Doc Bar grandson who past away at 25yrs, whom was deathly afraid. He instilled it in the younger ones and it keeps on trickling through the years.

So I just shoot my bows at home as I love my horses just as much as shooting guns.

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Mine just stand in the corner and say, "When is that idiot going to stop playing and break out the sweet feed?".

Funny story...
I live on a long narrow 10 acres that slopes up. Neighbors on the south side on their 10 and neighbors on the North side on their family 1/4 section.
I have a small range set up and was out back sighting in a deer rifle one day. Finished up and just as I came into the house the phone rings. It's the neighbor to the north calling to tell me about something but the part of the conversation that I remember was her saying, "I knew you'd be home when I called cause I heard you shooting".

460Shooter said:

I turned around and 5 of them were standing about 20 feet behind me, watching me, and trying to figure out what I was doing. They just stood there...………….. I felt so judged.

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If it's a dry spell, and the ranchers have been bringing cubes of feed, the cattle will often gather around a truck, any truck.
And, if you are not bringing them the treats they expect, you will be adjudged, and most bovinely.

CapnMac said:

If it's a dry spell, and the ranchers have been bringing cubes of feed, the cattle will often gather around a truck, any truck.
And, if you are not bringing them the treats they expect, you will be adjudged, and most bovinely.

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Yep. I've driven out to the woods for work, parked and went about my business. When I came back to the truck a few hours later there were several cows standing around my truck licking it. Scratched the heck out of it.

Then there was a day I was driving through a large park near my home where bison roam with my privately owned truck. They were standing on the road. It was a group of cows. No big deal, I drive through them frequently. Just go slow and they move out of the way. The bulls are considerably more intimidating. Anyway, they didn't move. They just calmly surrounded my vehicle and started licking it. All I could think of was how badly those cattle had scratched my work truck. So I started blowing the horn and rolling forward slowly and was trying to nudge them out of the way. They parted and I hit the gas and started rolling away. Well, they weren't done licking I guess because they started running along with my truck. I had one right outside my driver's side window.

You haven't lived until you've led a buffalo stampeded. LOL!

Anyway, sorry for the off topic post.

My neighbors shoot a lot more than I do. Doesn't bother me in the least, unless it's on the road in front of the house where there aren't any neighbors. When that happens (not often) I pay attention to what's generally going on for a few minutes.

There's a place a mile or so away where they do regular night firing exercises. Since it's now usual, no biggie to me.

Got 45 acres & the neighbors have a couple hundred so shooting day or night isn't a problem. All of us & them are aware which direction we're shooting , haven't had any issues in 20 years we've been there.

I’ve shot/hunted on plenty of different tracts.

It seems like more and more of Missouri is getting subdivided into 5 acre lots. There is a LOT of shooting in some of these areas (“legally”).

Personally I do not see how it is safe in many cases. People set up a wood pile and start blasting. There is little thought to ricochet and more importantly what happens if the “berm” is missed.

In theory if your range was safe then you would feel confident standing downrange of the berm on the property line. I think most people are either too dumb to understand what bullets do or do not care and think 5 acres is backcountry living.