Earlier today, I heard a very loud noise outside. I went out to investigate and saw nothing so I came back inside to continue my cleaning duties. About 30 minutes later I heard the same noise and I was completely shocked because this time I also felt the ground move and vibrations on my walls.
A few weeks ago, I found firecrackers in my brother's house' (next door) mailbox that some kids had fired up but this sounded a lot louder than kids playing with firecrackers. When I looked in my backyard, my rear neighbor was walking around with a rifle in his yard. I have a chain link fence and a big shed that borders our property lines. This particular neighbor is kind of wierd... however, he has never bothered me nor has he ever done anything dangerous to provoke me until today. He is an older guy that doesnt seem to be all there mentally or maybe he is just drunk all the time... I have seen him stumbling down the street going to the produce stand down the road.
Anyways, I went over to the shed and asked him what he was shooting at. He calmy replied that he was shooting "at that pole down yonder." He was shooting at a plastic pole with no backdrop whatsoever. I asked him what caliber the rifle was and he said 7mm He showed me the casing and it was indeed a 7mm. He said that he had shot at it earlier but then he couldnt eject the magazine so he had been messing with it for about 30 minutes and he finally got it to work. I was hoping that he might have been shooting at an intruder or something justifiable. However, with houses all around us and the fire marshal living right next to his house, I honestly wonder what the hell he was thinking. I told him to please stop firing the rifle and that he should look for a safer place to go shoot. He just said that it was okay, he had hit the ground with the last shot... plus, he had put his face too close to his scope and he had a cut over his eyebrow so he wasnt planning on shooting it again. Apparently he just wanted to try it out since he had just bought yesterday.
I went back inside and thought about what I should do... I felt sorry for him and didnt want to call the police on him so I went back out to offer to take him to the range so that I could teach him some general gun safety but when I went back outside to talk to him again, there were already three cop cars in his front yard. Someone else did call the cops on him and they had already seized the rifle. I feel bad for the old guy, he doesn't seem to have a job but he has been remodeling his little mobile home, fixing up his yard, planting a garden, raising some chickens, etc. I guess I was wondering what you guys would have done if you had a neighbor like this... like I said, he had never bothered me before this incident.
A few weeks ago, I found firecrackers in my brother's house' (next door) mailbox that some kids had fired up but this sounded a lot louder than kids playing with firecrackers. When I looked in my backyard, my rear neighbor was walking around with a rifle in his yard. I have a chain link fence and a big shed that borders our property lines. This particular neighbor is kind of wierd... however, he has never bothered me nor has he ever done anything dangerous to provoke me until today. He is an older guy that doesnt seem to be all there mentally or maybe he is just drunk all the time... I have seen him stumbling down the street going to the produce stand down the road.
Anyways, I went over to the shed and asked him what he was shooting at. He calmy replied that he was shooting "at that pole down yonder." He was shooting at a plastic pole with no backdrop whatsoever. I asked him what caliber the rifle was and he said 7mm He showed me the casing and it was indeed a 7mm. He said that he had shot at it earlier but then he couldnt eject the magazine so he had been messing with it for about 30 minutes and he finally got it to work. I was hoping that he might have been shooting at an intruder or something justifiable. However, with houses all around us and the fire marshal living right next to his house, I honestly wonder what the hell he was thinking. I told him to please stop firing the rifle and that he should look for a safer place to go shoot. He just said that it was okay, he had hit the ground with the last shot... plus, he had put his face too close to his scope and he had a cut over his eyebrow so he wasnt planning on shooting it again. Apparently he just wanted to try it out since he had just bought yesterday.
I went back inside and thought about what I should do... I felt sorry for him and didnt want to call the police on him so I went back out to offer to take him to the range so that I could teach him some general gun safety but when I went back outside to talk to him again, there were already three cop cars in his front yard. Someone else did call the cops on him and they had already seized the rifle. I feel bad for the old guy, he doesn't seem to have a job but he has been remodeling his little mobile home, fixing up his yard, planting a garden, raising some chickens, etc. I guess I was wondering what you guys would have done if you had a neighbor like this... like I said, he had never bothered me before this incident.