God DAMN it

[rolanni]

It's a Tale of the Modern Age, that, when I hear the neighbor firing his shotgun in his back yard (which he's not supposed to do, being X feet from the nearest neighbor. Who would be us.), I now think:  "Oh, ghod, I hope he's not killing the family," when I used to think, "Oh, ghod, drunk again and after the rabbits."

Either way, I wish he'd stop.

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[bandicoot.livejournal.com]

Around here, the houses are further apart. Some of the people across the canyon shoot from time to time. It's legal, and I'm a shooter myself, but not HERE. I don't worry about who's shooting what (unless it sounds like it's being aimed my way), but even as a shooter, I find it annoying. Especially when they decide to do it around dinner time in the summer when all the windows are open. That's why we have, you know, shooting ranges ... ;/

[rolanni.livejournal.com]

There's a perfectly legal shooting range in the gravel pit not a quarter mile down the road, if he's in the mood for shooting. There are kids, and cats and dogs, and the neighbor's chickens on the move around here -- not to mention the neighbors themselves. Too much opportunity for error.

Plus, yanno, the noise. The gravel pit, I can tune out. Hard to do when the damn' gun's practically going off in my ear.

[bandicoot.livejournal.com]

The noise is my problem with it as well. On the other hand, I have no desire to get involved in a range war over it :)

[kk1raven.livejournal.com]

My tolerance of my neighbors ends at gunshots. Gunshots around here are either people trying to kill each other or people shooting up into the air to celebrate something. Either way, it is dangerous. When my mother had work done on her roof a few years back the roofer found a bullet that had gone partway into it.

[attilathepbnun.livejournal.com]

I'm fortunate in that this sort of thing is rarely a problem in my country neighborhood. Things that sound like gunshots are *far* more likely to be fireworks.

The main noise problem is an around-the-corner-neighbor's penchant for throwing *very loud* musical parties during good summer weather .... in the small woods in back of his house, which is in back of *my* house ..... and I'm fairly certain that these parties not-infrequently actually leak over into the back of our property. However, like Bandicoot, I don't think it's worth a range war

[badgermirlacca.livejournal.com]

My neighbor to the south used to shoot deer from his back porch. Sometimes the deer were between his house and my barn, or my neighbor's barn. NOT happy about that.

And he's about 250 yards away. A rifle can kill you from a mile away.

[mbarker.livejournal.com]

I wonder if there is a fencing company around that would like to provide him with a quote for putting up a shotgun-proof fence around his property? Perhaps cinder blocks? I mean, he might as well know how much it may cost for him to continue his current habits, right?

[star-horse3.livejournal.com]

I had a neighbor like that. He used to shoot snakes from his deck over the creek that ran in back of our houses---26 feet down. The creek was only about a foot deep and the neighborhood kids thought it was a great place to play as well as their dogs. The banks were limestone, so ricochets were not only likely but probable. When I pointed these things out to him, he said he hadn't really thought about that.