Neighbor called the Law on me for shooting

[patrick_g]

35dB??? Where was that written and by whom?

A sneeze is way louder than 35 dB. I have a SPL (Sound Pressure Level) meter with switchable weighting. Using the "A" weighting as is common practice I can measure various noises I generate and hear from off site sources. Visitors often comment that it isn't as quiet at my place as they have envisioned it would be. You can hear trucks driving over a river bridge over a mile and a half away, cars, trucks and motorcycles well over a quarter mile away, and so forth. My comment is that the reason you can clearly hear trucks crossing a bridge over a mile and a half away is because it is so quiet here with little or no "masking: noises to cover up sounds. Birds and other wild life can be heard quite plainly (mockingbirds at 3 AM)

Lots of people snore way in excess of 35dB. Want to hear PIERCING bird calls? Get a peacock. If I had a neighbor I wanted to bug I guess a peacock would be a good weapon of choice.

Pat

 

[bcp]

How do you get a peacock whose noise only goes one way?

For a while there was one about 3/4 mile away. I had no problem hearing it, but it wasn't bad at that distance.

Bruce

 

[Ted Summey]

From post 121....

How can you say that there is no reason that nothing louder than 35dba should leave my property

Who is to say how loud is too loud in the country? In our county, the county commissioners say that any thing over 75 dB after 11 p.m. when there is a complaint is too loud. My buddies in law enforcement say it rarely ever happens.

 

[grsthegreat]

well, i dont really care what the one poster on this thread ...as opposed to everyone else thinks about noise pollution. if he wants to whisper all over his property..so be it.

I wont, and i dont. thats also my prerogative.

Speaking of which, i plan on shooting some .22 and my 9mm tomorrow...baring any rain. I just built 3 new targets that i want to try out.

 

[robbyr]

We live in the country with neighbors on all sides. One has had peacocks and donkeys. They make a lot of racket but who cares, its the country. Dogs bark all the time, but who cares its the country. And you may hear a mower or a weedeater at or before 7:00 a.m. in the summer as its only 95 degrees early in the morning as opposed to 115 by 10:00. Ok, I may have exaggerated the heat just a smidgen. Neighbors shoot guns frequently and pop fireworks twice a year, who cares its the country. Maybe city folks should stay in the city.

 

[dmccarty]

When we timbered our land, one of the "neighbors" called the cops. Seems like they did not think timber trucks should be running on a public road. :laughing::laughing::laughing: Course the real problem was that we were cutting trees. The twits who called live on a couple acres of woods, that required trees to be cut to build their house and trees cut down to make lumber to build their house. Some people are dumb as a box of rocks.

We have so much shooting around us at some parts of the year it does sound like a war zone. One guy has to be close to a mile away and he does shoot after dark. He surely spends some money on ammo but we only hear the noise if outside. A year or so ago the sheriff department blew up something in the dump which is a at least 3-5 miles away. That explosion rattled windows at our house. They said they used a bit too much boom boom. :shocked::laughing::laughing::laughing:

Our biggest noise make is a church off one corner of our place. I first heard the noise right after we moved into the house and hearing music shocked the heck out of me. At first I thought the music was from a road a mile away but then I finally figured out that the noise was from the church. :laughing::laughing::laughing:

Later,
Dan

 

[k0ua]

When we timbered our land, one of the "neighbors" called the cops. Seems like they did not think timber trucks should be running on a public road. :laughing::laughing::laughing: Course the real problem was that we were cutting trees. The twits who called live on a couple acres of woods, that required trees to be cut to build their house and trees cut down to make lumber to build their house. Some people are dumb as a box of rocks.

We have so much shooting around us at some parts of the year it does sound like a war zone. One guy has to be close to a mile away and he does shoot after dark. He surely spends some money on ammo but we only hear the noise if outside. A year or so ago the sheriff department blew up something in the dump which is a at least 3-5 miles away. That explosion rattled windows at our house. They said they used a bit too much boom boom. :shocked::laughing::laughing::laughing:

Our biggest noise make is a church off one corner of our place. I first heard the noise right after we moved into the house and hearing music shocked the heck out of me. At first I thought the music was from a road a mile away but then I finally figured out that the noise was from the church. :laughing::laughing::laughing:

Later,
Dan

I can hear the high school marching band when school is in session and I am outside. They must be 2 miles away. Sure is annoying

I think I will call the cops

 

[Midniteoyl]

I hear the train - 3.5 miles away.

I hear the high school - 2 miles away

I hear the highway - 3/4 mile away

I hear gunfire - 1/2 to 1 mile away

I hear vehicles on my road - 250 ft away

I hear birds...


But its quite.

 

[displacedPA]

Geeze gotta love ppl like this. Go back to the city. Robert frost fences make good neihbors. Worth a look.

 

[Midniteoyl]

Geeze gotta love ppl like this. Go back to the city. Robert frost fences make good neihbors. Worth a look.

Who you talking too?