Mike OTDP
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- Feb 12, 2008
- 3,324
Measuring impulse sound, like gunshots, is a science in itself. Normal decibel meters don't work very well, you can ask the suppressor community about it.
Private property shooting in Calvert
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Amym
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Hi
I have 5 acres in Friendship and am interested in setting up a range. How big is your dirt berm? Did nake any other accommodations? Thanks for your help.
Perfect reason why you need to purchase silencers.
Frickn Yahoo
Member
- May 19, 2018
- 26
My backstop is just a huge natural hillside i shoot into. Kinda hard to describe, but at the very back of my range, the target is about half way up the hill. Didn't make any other accommodations. All natural land topography.
Im assuming your in AA CO, Im not aware of there laws regarding shooting on private property. Id check there before doing any plinkin
Frickn Yahoo
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- May 19, 2018
- 26
Figured this is a good time to give a update.
Few years back had another visit from the local Sheriffs office. Im guessing they got tired of the BS complaints becuase they set the neighbors straight. They told the neighbors and I, Im not breaking any laws, and the noise ordnance does not apply to firearms. In order to be in violation of the county ordnance, the noise has to be constant and over the allowed decibel level. Since gunshots are semi auto stop and go, thats not a violation. Officer also stated I can press charges for harassment on the neighbors.
This is what i was told by 2 county cops. How much of it is true? Remains to be seen. Seems like you get a different interpretation of the law, from every cop. But since then, Ive not had any issues with the SO and still shoot on my range.
Few years back had another visit from the local Sheriffs office. Im guessing they got tired of the BS complaints becuase they set the neighbors straight. They told the neighbors and I, Im not breaking any laws, and the noise ordnance does not apply to firearms. In order to be in violation of the county ordnance, the noise has to be constant and over the allowed decibel level. Since gunshots are semi auto stop and go, thats not a violation. Officer also stated I can press charges for harassment on the neighbors.
This is what i was told by 2 county cops. How much of it is true? Remains to be seen. Seems like you get a different interpretation of the law, from every cop. But since then, Ive not had any issues with the SO and still shoot on my range.
tentsandtread
Member
After a year of shooting in my yard on 3acres I have discovered due to neighbors that im like 30ft short of being able to tell them all to eat shit.
Need a place to shoot DM me im in Calvert lets be buddies can pay in ammo/gunsmithing etc haha
Glad to hear that LEO is on your side.
......keep shooting. You aren't doing anything wrong.
I enjoy this statement.
I used to shoot at Will's range which was up a hill which dead ended around a powerline area. Very isolated and yet as we see, that story that Action told, was apparently the death nell to Duffy's range.
Love it
Biggfoot44
Ultimate Member
- Aug 2, 2009
- 33,137
Same thing with General Aviation.
General Aviation facilities are an important element of our regular and emergency transportation networks .
But suburbanites move to new developments in proximity to existing small airports , then act surprised when they hear planes , and have the occasional shirt landing crash in their yard , or into their house .
So they whine and batch to local governments and zoning boards to restrict and / or shut down the airports .
If you don't want a plane crashing into your house , Don't move next to an airport.
Yup, been at their range as well. That story gets played out all over the country.
Not a public range, but look what happened northern Baltimore County from a guy shooting MG's on farm. New rich city person moves in next door. Starts complaining to the farm owner. farm owner says FU. Police come, everything legal. Fast forward a yew years. Said city dweller is WELL connected. New ordinance passed. No more automatic firing allowed.
Farm owner puts up a pig pen on the property line close to the guys house.
I believe I have my facts straight. Some of you know this story well.
Have a friend who has a plant nursery a bit farther north than Duffy's.
He built a dirtbike practice track that we would ride on a few times a week or so. Eventually, the county got in his grille due to someone complaining. They claimed that he was violating his land use and had to cease. But, if I remember right, the county said he could have ridden there, as long as he didn't move any dirt to make obstacles or of course charge anyone to ride. ( which he never did)
This led him to buy another property up in PA. That one had way more acreage and yet, Adams County and Neighbors even had town meetings to thwart him. One could not see any neighbors from anywhere on that whole piece of land and I am pretty sure that the opposers did not have a legal leg despite hiring lawyers to fight their fight at that Town meeting. I remember him also having his father in law testify from his engineering background as I believe he was aiming to make his practice track up there open to his friends like me and maybe 3-7 other friends. As I remember from one day at his place, He and his 2 boys, and another friend and his one boy were riding, and some neighbor trespassed on his land and got right in his face to ask him, " JUST WHO do you THINK you are?" My buddy was his usual peaceful self, but the friend was not as calm headed. That fella basically told the trespasser that he better leave them alone if he did not want to regret it. AND that they were trespassing.
Eventually the PA property was sold. So we had no practice places to ride.
thats like folks in CRE that whine about NAS Pax... like... yo, you moved in NEXT TO AN AIR BASE... and I guess they missed science class where they discussed how sound is amplified over bodies of water.....
And odd that you bring up planes crashing into your house, my wife used to live on Crystal Rock years ago when a plane crashed landing at the CRE Airfield... the landing gear hit her roof, it crashed in her back yard... While it did cause lasting mental issues when she hears low flying aircraft she has a rightful fear of it.... she never once called for the airport to be shut down, even with the rich clowns that do dumb shit on it lol
