Owen Sparks
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Every evening for the last few days someone near where I live has been shooting at least 100 rounds about an hour before dark. From experience I can tell by the sound that it is an AR-15. I pulled up in my neighbor’s driveway to ask what was going on, thinking that they might have built a back yard range. His wife was out working in the yard and told me that it was the guy who lives behind them who was shooting. We started talking and visiting as we are about the same age and she used to live next door to my cousins. I was sitting in my truck with the window down and she was about six to eight feet away sitting on a riding lawn mower when suddenly a bullet whizzed right between us and struck the foliage several feet away causing the leaves to move.
The woman’s immediate reaction was to pull out the cell phone and call the sheriff but I persuaded her to wait. I drove up the length of the driveway, got out and could hear two male voices perhaps 100 yards away through the woods that separated the property. I shouted “HEY, A BULLET JUST WHIZZED PAST MY HEAD!” I heard nothing in response though the shooting has stopped.
Be careful! The woods are no substitute for a proper back stop.
The woman’s immediate reaction was to pull out the cell phone and call the sheriff but I persuaded her to wait. I drove up the length of the driveway, got out and could hear two male voices perhaps 100 yards away through the woods that separated the property. I shouted “HEY, A BULLET JUST WHIZZED PAST MY HEAD!” I heard nothing in response though the shooting has stopped.
Be careful! The woods are no substitute for a proper back stop.
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