Anyone notice more gunfire or poaching in your area since CV19?

[Trey Veston]

Nope. Was just in the woods today for a short hike and didn't see another soul, or hear a single gun shot.

 

[fpgt72]

Less, before this crazy I would hear shooting every night after work, now it is real quiet. I have thought of doing some shooting, still a little marshy in my shooting area....it is basically in a swamp....but still working my life has not changed a bit. I have been shooting the air guns a little more....seem pellets are still in good supply.

 

[dh1633pm]

I have been shooting my air rifle in the back yard. I live too close to other to shoot a rifle or anything loud.

 

[Jack B.]

Even though almost all of the organized outdoor ranges in my area are closed and I do live near some wooded areas and open land. I haven't noticed any more shooting than normal or poaching either. Although about 4 months ago I used to see 12 wild turkeys on my morning bike ride near the end of my subdivision and as the weeks went by there were less and less of them till now I don't see any. I blame it on coyotes that seem to be everywhere out here not poaching.

 

[Shanghai McCoy]

Took a "Hail Mary" shot at a coon the other night with the 20 gauge...
For a fat coon it's pretty fast.

 

[DS-10-SPEED]

I decided the post was inappropriate.

 

[Zaydok Allen]

I guess that is from new gun owners out learning how to shoot since our local indoor gun ranges are closed because of CV19.

If you aren't coming across gut piles and evidence of poaching, I'd assume this ^^^^^ is what you are hearing.

 

[Deanimator]

Given that I just moved to a highrise in a highly urbanized suburb, I'd say... no.

 

[Speedo66]

Same here, I live in a small suburb on the edge of a metro area of 2 million. If I hear gunfire, things have gone bad. Thankfully, never have.

 

[dh1633pm]

I did tell my wife that those four doe's that hang out and sometimes bed in the back yard are food storage if things get bad. We leave them alone, and admire their movements. Our property although not too large, borders two other large plots. Plenty of room between the two and ours for some deer to hang out.

 

[buck460XVR]

Again, we are only a few weeks into social distancing. Meat and other food staples are still readily available. Around here the community support for those that lost their jobs is amazing and donations to food pantries is as high as ever. Schools are giving out free lunches. Mc Donalds is giving away free lunches to school age kids and free drive thru lunches for the elderly. Around here, the needy are put on a list and are offered car-killed deer if they want. There are legal seasons for fishing and Turkey hunting in our area. There is no legitimate reason for anyone to poach. Most poachers always have an excuse or some way to validate to themselves why they poach. Some dirtbags just shoot whatever is in front of them, legal or not, just for the thrill of killing something. The Pandemic as of now, is really not a factor.

 

[daniel craig]

Went to a state forest for some quiet time over the weekend and there was a lot of shooting to be heard. Odds are, some people are using the forest as a shooting range because it was way too much shooting to be poaching.

 

[Trey Veston]

Same here, I live in a small suburb on the edge of a metro area of 2 million. If I hear gunfire, things have gone bad. Thankfully, never have.

True story... Back in `93, I was fresh out of the military and drove my musclecar across the country to Marshalltown, IA to visit my best friend from the Navy for the summer. I brought a girl with me and I moved in with my buddy and another guy, and she rented a small apartment near the downtown area.

Marshalltown was maybe 20k people back then and a picturesque Norman Rockwell Iowa town. My girlfriend called me one night around midnight and said she heard gunfire and was scared.

Whatever. Pretty sure she was exaggerating and was just lonely. So I drove the mile or so from my place to hers.

As we lay in bed, about half an hour later, sure enough, I heard pistol fire. Then another few minutes, a couple of more shots. Probably about 1/4 mile away or less, and coming from the West, which was a rundown neighborhood.

The day, I reported for work to a general contractor and asked a co-worker, who had grown up there, about the gunfire.

He replied that the local meat processing plant employed a large number of south of the border citizens and the crime was getting out of control. He had a buddy that was a cop and told him that the police chief, mayor, and the local paper conspired to suppress the actual number of crimes going on in the town. He said if the citizens actually knew how many murders, rapes, and other violent crimes occurred in their little town, then there would be a lynch mob to shut down the plant, which was the largest tax payer in the town.

It was surreal. It was in that town that I had to rescue that girl from a laundromat at gunpoint from a group of young Hispanic males.

So yeah, if you hear gunfire in town, then things have gone sideways.

 

[tmd16556]

I’m hearing a lot less here. I live about a mile from one of the National Sport Shooting Complex and normally there’s a healthy pop-pop of skeet shooting that has gone quiet.