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Posted: 4/19/2024 11:29:54 PM EDT
[#1]
Yep.
 What's really fun is when one guy a couple of ridges over starts shooting and then others start shooting in return. Kind of like the beacons of Gondor spreading across the mountains.
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WA, USA
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Posted: 4/19/2024 11:31:15 PM EDT
[#2]
Originally Posted By Need4Guns: Whether you're rural (like me) or city/suburbs, do you hear shots from your home? Nearly every day |
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Posted: 4/19/2024 11:34:20 PM EDT
[#3]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By SAE: Maybe we could hook up? I will bust a cap on one of those bad boys with my .270 Win mag and fuck they world up real good. You know, unless it wasn't cool and stuff like that.  The Zookeepers might frown on that… I’m within a mile of a nice Zoo, so if conditions are right and we’re out back, you hear him. It’s a very distinctive sound. Atavistic, really. |
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WA, USA
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Posted: 4/19/2024 11:41:42 PM EDT
[#4]
Almost every day I'll hear someone out here shooting. I live out in a rural area so it's pretty normal.
Some of the times it's actually me.  The nice thing is that I don't have to make any special trips to a shooting range and I can shoot whenever the mood strikes me.
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WA, USA
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Posted: 4/19/2024 11:42:49 PM EDT
[#5]
I live in a shithole and hear gun fire several nights a week, sometimes even Glock switches going off.
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Posted: 4/19/2024 11:47:32 PM EDT
[#6]
No vote option fits me. I live on the edge of the city limits. Less than two blocks away. Can't shoot where I live but I can hear shooting on the weekends from the people not far away who can.
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Posted: 4/19/2024 11:50:33 PM EDT
[#7]
In the burbs. Used to be country not too long ago. Still hear shots occasionally from a range a few miles away.
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Posted: 4/19/2024 11:52:09 PM EDT
[#8]
Private shooting range at my community.
About a mile up is a gun smiths house / SOT guy who has an M60, an AK47, an M16 and a Mac. It’s not unusual for me to be out shooting and to hear him come out and rip a 100 round belt. |
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Posted: 4/19/2024 11:58:32 PM EDT
[#9]
Occasional home range fire.
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Posted: 4/19/2024 11:59:52 PM EDT
[#10]
Very rare within one mile.
Lots within 10 miles. We don't hear much. |
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Posted: 4/20/2024 12:03:06 AM EDT
[#11]
About two weeks ago I was outside clearing leaves from my window wells. Heard what I counted as roughly six to eight shots close enough together that I knew they were fired simultaneously. Turned out to be a police shooting where a guy behaving erratically and holding a gun was killed and another guy trying to help him was wounded.
Have heard shots fired numerous other times as well. There are also "shots fired" reports that I know to be just fireworks. |
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Posted: 4/20/2024 12:03:15 AM EDT
[#12]
Last road in the county. Not far from a ton of USA Gov't land. Gunshots are usually in the distance. if it's close by it's one or two shots and a neighbor taking care of something feral.
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USA
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Posted: 4/20/2024 12:53:40 AM EDT
[#13]
I don't hear gunshots but occasionally I hear munition disposal detonations.
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TX, USA
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Posted: 4/20/2024 12:58:14 AM EDT
[#14]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Brawnydog: Yep, all the time. Just on the fringe of rural. |
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Posted: 4/20/2024 1:01:28 AM EDT
[#15]
Hell, sometimes I hear gunfire in my house.
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WA, USA
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Posted: 4/20/2024 1:29:51 AM EDT
[#16]
Hell my wife didn't hear the shot last time I shot a feral cat off the back deck.
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NH, USA
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Posted: 4/20/2024 1:31:42 AM EDT
[#17]
All the time and it’s glorious.
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Posted: 4/20/2024 1:42:43 AM EDT
[#18]
Yep. Live in the county. Every now and again the drunk guy down the road gets liquored up, steps out on his back porch. Yells some gibberish and let's loose with a mag full. Goes back inside, a few minutes later comes back out and mag dumps again. I think he only owns one mag for his pistol.
At the dead end road past us, a few guys will shoot a little on a nice Saturday late afternoon at almost dusk. The guy across the hill from us has a black powder cannon. He will let loose with a shot or 2 on nice Saturday afternoons. |
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AK, USA
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Posted: 4/20/2024 1:48:12 AM EDT
[#19]
Yes. Almost always the bear in the woods behind the house being chased by the troopers again.
One day he will get that pickanick basket. |
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VA, USA
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Posted: 4/20/2024 1:55:50 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By RealityCheck0311: I'm in a city and never hear gunshots. It's not like the movies unless you're living in a really bad area like parts of Detroit, Baltimore, etc.. My younger brother lives a few miles from an outdoor gun range (rifles and shotguns) and you can hear that clearly. |
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AZ, USA
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Posted: 4/20/2024 2:03:58 AM EDT
[#21]
Rural AZ here. When the grandson is visiting, we'll setup targets on the back fence on the northside of our property and blaze away with .22's There's a couple thousand acres of open range land beyond the fence and we don't worry about hitting anything. Occasionally there are cattle out there, so we don't shoot then.
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Posted: 4/20/2024 2:05:14 AM EDT
[#22]
Yes. Army had a KD range not far and I often get to hear the sweet nothings of Mk19s, 240s, and M2s etc.
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Posted: 4/20/2024 6:26:20 AM EDT
[#23]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Brawnydog: Yep, all the time. |
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Posted: 4/20/2024 6:27:33 AM EDT
[#24]
@Need4Guns
No. I live in suburban Loudoun now, unfortunately. I used to hear gunfire from Clark Bros. in the fall and winter when I lived between Bealeton and Opal, if you're familiar with that area OP.  |
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Posted: 4/20/2024 6:32:05 AM EDT
[#25]
Police range and Reserve Training Base within earshot of me when the wind is right. Some very disciplined full-auto fire makes me smile.
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TN, USA
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Posted: 4/20/2024 6:57:22 AM EDT
[#26]
Here in a retirement type hood with a farm on the outskirts and a lake on the other side. On the first day of hunting season the shotgun blasts from across the lake wake up the new arrivals from the north. Next Door lights up and the laughter begins.
Then at times the boys on the farm get it going. Back to Next Door on that one too. The fun never ends and with new move ins all the time, there is no end in sight. The gunfire is music to my ears. |
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Posted: 4/20/2024 7:27:54 AM EDT
[#27]
Dead-end street, semi-rural. People ask me if it's quiet. I tell them, "All I hear are roosters and gunfire."
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Posted: 4/20/2024 7:29:38 AM EDT
[#28]
Turkey season started this morning.
Nothing yet. 
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MN, USA
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Posted: 4/20/2024 7:33:00 AM EDT
[#29]
The only gunfire is from duck hunters…
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WV, USA
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Posted: 4/20/2024 7:47:32 AM EDT
[#30]
WV goes bang
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Posted: 4/20/2024 7:55:34 AM EDT
[#31]
Yes. I live in a Natl Forest. You can literally walk 100 yards from my property to a deer stand where it is legal to hunt in season.
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USA
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Posted: 4/20/2024 8:03:05 AM EDT
[#32]
Frequently.
My personal range is about 2 miles up the road and I’m set to go today.
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Posted: 4/20/2024 8:09:35 AM EDT
[#33]
Just about every day.
Sometimes it's me, sometimes it's the neighbors, sometimes it is the school up the road, sometimes it's all of us. |
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PA, USA
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Posted: 4/20/2024 8:30:42 AM EDT
[#34]
Gun range 1/2 mile away.
Also, several people with home ranges nearby. Occasional mag dumps at 4am too. 
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NH, USA
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Posted: 4/20/2024 8:33:47 AM EDT
[#35]
At least weekly. I'm near a popular local gravel pit. Convenient as hell.
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TX, USA
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Posted: 4/20/2024 8:37:04 AM EDT
[#36]
Yes, all the time. can hear explosions and the cadence of the m60 buy i live near Camp Bullis
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SC, USA
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Posted: 4/20/2024 8:39:34 AM EDT
[#37]
Only on my negligent discharge. Whole apartment heard that one.
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Posted: 4/20/2024 8:45:30 AM EDT
[#38]
I live in an HOA. I hear guys shooting doves in the fall. I may or may not have shot suppressed 5.56 and 9mm into my pool a couple times. Pissed my neighbor’s dogs off bigly.
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Posted: 4/20/2024 9:11:16 AM EDT
[#39]
Yes. Mostly duck hunters in the bay.
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Posted: 4/20/2024 9:17:26 AM EDT
[#40]
My neighbors sure do.
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Posted: 4/20/2024 9:22:39 AM EDT
[#41]
I live a couple miles from a range. When the air conditions are right, it sounds like a war is going on. I love it! Also, everywhere I go to mountain bike or hike. There is gunfire all around.
Another thing about this area is that nearly every car and truck has gun stickers on the windows. Pictures of AR-15, or “my gun family” or pro-2nd amendment stickers. Idaho is gun paradise. |
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Posted: 4/20/2024 9:23:40 AM EDT
[#42]
If I don't hear gunfire, I get out in the back yard and shoot some.
That usually brings out some neighbors. |
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Posted: 4/20/2024 9:25:57 AM EDT
[#43]
Just when the methbillies from the trailer park a few miles away slip into the wildlife refuge behind the house and perform their biweekly mag dumps. I much prefer shooting more civilized with a can.
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TN, USA
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Posted: 4/20/2024 9:26:22 AM EDT
[#44]
I hear gunfire usually on weekends, everyone has their own backyard range here
but when I lived in Chicago, it was a different story. |
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Posted: 4/20/2024 9:26:40 AM EDT
[Last Edit: Aimless]
[#45]
There was a range about a mile and a half from my house in NY. I could hear shooting if I was on the front lawn. The
range was in a wooded area and it was a mix of woods, suburban developments and hills in between. There's tons of shooting maybe 4 miles from my house in Utah. I don't hear a sound. There's nothing but desert |
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Posted: 4/20/2024 9:35:20 AM EDT
[#46]
Rarely
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WA, USA
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Posted: 4/20/2024 9:37:24 AM EDT
[#47]
Sometimes. If it’s calm enough I can hear the faint pop of a shotguns during bird hunting seasons.
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OH, USA
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Posted: 4/20/2024 9:42:23 AM EDT
[#48]
I have a range in my back yard, and permission by my neighbor farmer to go out to 600yds in his fields when no crops are growing.
In return he's welcome to use my smithing tools to build his AR/LR stuff. Everyone around here shoots. Sounds like...freedom. |
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MI, USA
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Posted: 4/20/2024 9:45:44 AM EDT
[#49]
I live on the eastside of Detroit in the 48205 gunfire helps me sleep.
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Posted: 4/20/2024 9:51:47 AM EDT
[#50]
Yup… Not too far from Fish & Game club. Can hear them now.
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