Neighbor called the Law on me for shooting

[Buckgnarly]

Loud pipes save lives..? All summer long I have to listen to the echoes of throttle-blipping morons clear across the valley. I like rainy days cuz the Harleys scatter for cover like roaches. But there's really nothing I can do about it aside from ensuring my own bikes are nice and quiet.

As someone who lives right on route 302, I feel your pain! All Summer the morons pollute the air with their noise....and I do ride, and I also keep my bike quiet.

 

[daveshoot]

The county I am in is a exhurb, a satellite suburb of Detroit.

I used to hunt all over Howell (grew up in Royal Oak), as well as Rochester. They were the boonies back in the 60s and 70s. Heck, there used to be pheasant hunting in what is now Sterling Heights.

Anyway, I avoid noisy operations after dark and very early morning just out of general courtesy. I don't stress much over noisy operations by others within reason, and since I am out with my airguns now and then (a lot, actually), I don't go looking for transgressions by others. I have lived in an HOA where "transgressions" are a blood sport, and I will never do so again.

 

[EddieWalker]

Speaking of noise pollution, the thing I hate the most about working in town is how noisy it is. Lawn mowers, traffic and people working on projects. It's just terrible how they live there. I have all sorts of reasons why I don't want to live in a city again, and the noise is high on my list.

I'll take target practice, or bush hogging on my neighbors land over city noise any day of the week!!!

Eddie

 

[Midniteoyl]

If the very low noise from a few .22LR rounds set you off, its not actually the noise thats the problem. There is something else simmering.. either between the two parties, or within the other party himself. .22's just dont make that much noise..

 

[dave1949]

If the very low noise from a few .22LR rounds set you off, its not actually the noise thats the problem. There is something else simmering.. either between the two parties, or within the other party himself. .22's just dont make that much noise..

What? :laughing: First I need a reason to not like noise and then if I don't, something is amiss within me?

Actually, a 22LR up-close sounded, when I could still hear well, more like a whip crack to me. I don't hear a lot things now. It's the concept I am discussing, not my hearing though.

Like Eddie, city noise is bad. In a heavily populated area, it is a constant presence of freeway hum, dumpster trucks, sirens and theft alarm horns. I don't know how people live there. Add in all the light pollution, never see a star in the sky, just this sickly orange-ish glow of sodium vapor lamps. The air stinks too. It just makes me want to get out of there as soon as possible.

 

[LD1]

James, I sure wish you were the officer out here.

As to noise, the neighbor is listening through several rows of pines and a dense fence row. This neighbor is actually diagonal across the road and about 400 yards from where I was shooting. And about 160 degrees from where I was shooting at. At my 7 o'clock so to speak. So I doubt that some 22's and a few 12's and few 9mm's were that unbearibly loud

 

[k0ua]

James, I sure wish you were the officer out here.

As to noise, the neighbor is listening through several rows of pines and a dense fence row. This neighbor is actually diagonal across the road and about 400 yards from where I was shooting. And about 160 degrees from where I was shooting at. At my 7 o'clock so to speak. So I doubt that some 22's and a few 12's and few 9mm's were that unbearibly loud

Well if he was 400 yard away I sure don't see how it could have bothered him that much. If he was in his house with the windows closed (typical midwest summer high heat and humidity mode) I doubt he could hear the .22's and would have maybe just barely hear the 5 12 guage rounds and the few 9mm's. It sounds to me like the guy has a serious "weed" up something.

James K0UA

 

[dave1949]

An interesting thing I learned about while working on the wind turbine ordinance and noise is "learned aversion". As it applies to turbines, or guns too I suppose, if you don't like them, how they look, own a coal mine, or whatever, then the noise is much more bothersome to those people--even when they are hearing the very same noise as the people who are not bothered by it.

There is a real physiological stress response to this self-imposed aggravation that can impact health. But the stress is a response to the aversion, not the noise itself. Either way, it can cause high blood pressure and all the bad things that follow that.

I don't think guns have the same issue with ultra-low frequencies that turbines have. This is basically a sound pressure wave hitting you that your ears cannot detect but your body is still reacting to it. Even if guns did have that low frequency sound pressure wave, people aren't exposed to it over long periods of time compared to turbines.

Maybe LD1's neighbor could use a pair of sound-cancelling receiver headphones tuned to PBS? Whatever works.

 

[two_bit_score]

LD ---Have you thought about reporting them to the cops ? Do they ever stray from the straight and narrow ? two can play this game if nothing else works...I know that amounts to stooping to their level but if all else fails...just a thought.:2cents:

Yes, sir!

 

[grsthegreat]

My shooting range is in the trees on 20 acres. My next door neighbor has a range of his own. Two houses down another neighbor has his own range.

No one complains about any noise, and we all only shoot in later afternoon and never after sundown.

They still make less noise than the people on the corner lot with their off road trail bike loop system of jumps. They can run those motorcycles for 5 straight hours. That does tend to get on my nerves after a few hours,


but you know what. I have never said anything to them, and i never would. We all moved out into the country to get away from the stupid city laws about someone controlling where you park your car at night, etc.

its live and let live here.