If you listen to music while you shoot what is it?

[kidneyboy]

Not to much of what I do requires a soundtrack.

Comfortably Numb - The boomer anthem.......

 

[Walkalong]

I generally would find music distracting from the focused task at hand, and certainly find anything which accelerates my heart rate to be contraindicated to productive shooting.

Productive anything…., but I am in the minority in the no music while working etc. Not even music I like.

 

[Hartkopf]

Prepping cases I listen to a wide range of music such as; “The Pot” by Tool, “Here To Stay” by Korn, “Cocaine Habit” by Shane Smith & The Saints, “White Room” by Cream, “Kashmir” by Led Zeppelin, “Edison’s Medicine” by Tesla.

While Shooting; No music

 

[Demi-human]

I find I fall into time with the music.
That is not conducive to practice. The rhythm of the gun needs to be followed, or the clock will show it.

A day of plinking and quiet reflection, in complete solitude, while aerating cans? Then, maybe, kind of doubt it.
Around others? Nope.

 

[Charlie Martinez]

I never listen to music when I shoot because I probably couldn't hear it anyways but when I started hand loading I shared all the components with a few other buddies so we would get together and reload with the sound track of "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly" and Tchaikovsky 's 1812 Overture. One day we made a batch of double charges and luckily nobody's gun blew up but the change was clearly noticed and we had to toss all our valuable ammo in the garbage. After a brief discussion it was agreed that music & TV were not a good idea during reloading.

 

[Mike J]

I don't listen to music while shooting or at work. Some guys I have worked with with get the music going & are oblivious of everything else while working. That is dangerous on a job site. I tend to think the same thing about shooting. It is better to pay attention to the task at hand.

When not shooting I tend to listen to classic rock or classic country. I don't care for rap, pop or muzak. You mention Comfortably Numb. When I was in high school we used to go to the midnight movies. We went to see The Wall one night when I had not imbibed. It didn't make any sense. A couple of weeks later we went to it again when I was tore up from the floor up. It made perfect sense. (I haven't partaken of alcohol or other mind/mood altering substances since I figured out I am allergic. I break out in handcuffs).

 

[3Crows]

No music, absolutely not. I do not live my life to a sound track. My favorite radio station is KOFF (get it?). Am I a music lover, yes, do I need it constantly, no. I have four working turntables and hundreds of records, maybe more records than ammo. A recent haul of LPs from Walmart of all places, half off on Black Friday:



My parents old Zenith updated with a Technics Linear turntable, itself a little old, I had to rebuild it:




And another:



I work on guns listening to music, but guns make their own music and so does nature when out in it.



3C

 

[MR WICK]

Miss a cease fire at the local range and you won't be coming back. The crack of the shot and the smell of burnt powder is all I need in the morning for accurate and peaceful shooting. If I want to rock out it's in my truck...

Can NEVER happen at The Range I shoot at. But I understand your concern.

 

[MR WICK]

Especially the live version from P.U.L.S.E. at Earls Court, 1994.

These days it may be one of Yani's concerts; Taj Mahal, Acropolis, Royal Albert Hall.

But not while I'm shooting. It's just me and the gun.

My absolute favorite version is the live one with Roger Waters and Van Morrison. It was featured in the Departed.

I understand listening to music while shooting isn't for everyone. For me, it brings a peaceful semblance to the atmosphere. It creates an environment where I can lose myself in the art of long distance shooting. It's hard to explain but it is in no way, shape, or form a distraction. I am still super vigilant.

But that's just me personally. Listening to Pink Floyd or the tamer songs from Metallica like Fade to Black, Sanitarium, For Whom the Bell Tolls, The Unforgiven, Master of Puppets, etc, just add to my focus and overall enjoyment of my time out there.

 

[375supermag]

The sound of lead ringing steel plates is the only music I want to hear when I am shooting at the gun club.

 

[Dave DeLaurant]

... when I started hand loading I shared all the components with a few other buddies so we would get together and reload

Communal hand-/reloading would probably be a bad idea, at least for me. I think I'd find chatting with my buds as distracting as using a cellphone while driving.

BTW, our Nissan Sentra was just totaled on January 17th. We were stationary, signaling a left turn and waiting for a break in oncoming traffic when a Civic rear-ended us at speed. The driver admitted he'd been distracted by his ringtone and failed to stop.

 

[doubleh]

Il isten to music when traveling to and from the range but not while shooting. I have enough trouble shooting decently anymore and don't need anything to distract me. Working on projects at home sometimes it has music and sometimes not. Now and then I enjoy the sound of silence. Come to think of it I really like the song by that name, especially the instrumental version by the Ventures.

 

[Mk-211]

Doubleh, if you like the Sound of Silence, listen to Disturbed's version of it.

Talk about being blown away by a remake of a song! They took it and made it heavy, made the song incredible!

 

[chicharrones]

Back to shootin' . . .

I tend to like the music made by the guns in Larry Vicker's videos during the shooting segment. Such as the one below that starts at 2:45.



Or this one at 3:00.


Or this speedy little brass chucker at 3:19.

 

[MR WICK]

Doubleh, if you like the Sound of Silence, listen to Disturbed's version of it.

Talk about being blown away by a remake of a song! They took it and made it heavy, made the song incredible!

That's on my shooting Playlist. Listened to it today.

 

[BigBlue 94]

Wagner and Tchaikovsky are great suggestions! As is Metallica's The Unforgiven. Might i suggest a couple: Marty Robbins' Big Iron, Metallica's One or Five Finger Death Punch's cover of Bad Company. If training for room clearing or rapid fire, Alien Ant Farm's cover of Smooth Criminal is about as rhythmic as doubletapping the trigger.

Slight veer off topic... In the later Fallout video games, they have in-game radio stations you can listen to while exploring the wastes. Wagner's Flight of the Valkyries is on one station. If you are lucky to time it right, you can have it playing while shooting a minigun hanging out of side of a helicopter type thing. It is an EPIC part!

While shooting in real life we might have a radio on low but never earphones/buds. Heck i dont even listen to music while offroading in the bronco. But it could be anything from 50s-90's rock and country to metal and hard core rap. But almost none of it will be heard over the radio waves.

 

[clutch]

At work the assemblers are listening to music to avoid paying attention to what they are doing. Music and shooting doesn't go together for me.

 

[Dr T]

Never while shooting at the range. If there is a ricochet I want to know about it.

The closest I will come is listening to recorded books while hunting. When game shows up, book goes off.

 

[Mk-211]

Big Blue,
What year is your Bronco in your avatar? I had a '71 and as cool and sought after as they are, I always wanted the bigger full size Bronco.

The '79 and last year '96 were always my favorite looking Broncos.

 

[Officers'Wife]

Just because . . .

Frankly, to me the music would at best be ignored and at worst be a distraction. Neither is desirable at the range.

As for you chicharrones, one would think a Russian would be playing Shostakovich not Beethoven. эти русские...

 

[JeeperCreeper]

I only do music if I'm alone on the range. But, with modern electronics and technology, electronic ear protection can be safe for me and others.

I feel embarrassed to admit I like the John Wick soundtrack.

But normally I do Trap beats fit a good rhythm.

Music can help with focus. I listen to music when I lift, I listen to music when I drive, when I ride. For me, music helps, depending on music, with performance. For my mediocre performance.

 

[Dave DeLaurant]

As for you chicharrones, one would think a Russian would be playing Shostakovich not Beethoven. эти русские...

Or possibly Mussorgsky, Prokofiev, Rachmaninoff, even Stravinsky. The stuff I sometimes listen to when my wife's not around -- too dramatic for her tastes.

 

[SwampWolf]

Kenny Roger's 1969 hit, "Ruby, Don't Take Your Love To Town".

 

[CapnMac]

Given the physics involved and the intricacies of human hearing, I have a reflex about introducing more sound in situations where you are trying to limit sound introduced in a setting where you are trying to limit such sounds.

So, it seems a bit counter-intuitive to me to add in sound volume where I'm trying to protect my hearing from excess volume. Hearing is all too easy to lose and there's no getting it back.

YMMV

 

[theotherwaldo]

I don't like distractions while I'm doing anything that is potentially hazardous.