Years ago, after watching Miami Vice, or some such TV show. My curiosity got the best of me wondering what it would sound like to shoot a handgun inside a room like they do on TV. I opened the door off our master bedroom that leads to a deck, backed up against the opposite wall, and let fly a round with a .40 S&W. One round was all it took. My ears rang for 3 days. Whatever they use on TV is not the real thing , at least inside a house.

This would qualify as a "never again" thing.

So many get their political view of guns based on TV and is no where near realistic.

My mate and his brother done something similar with a .270 Caliber rifle. Had gone to a sandpit which we use for zeroing, but because it was raining they decided to set up inside a 40 foot steel container that was left in the pit and fire from inside . So placed down the ground mat and set up to shoot,WELL when they fired the dust and shit that had accumulated over the years let alone the noise they couldn't hear or see for hours choking in the dust . Worst of all they decided to tell their mates what they had done

Did the same in a shallow cave in the Mogollon mountains of New Mexico years ago. Backed up tight, scrunched over, against the back wall of the little cave high on the rim, while calling coyotes that we thought might be in the dry ravine far bottom. The plan was that my buddy, or I, seeing a coyote would, Step #2, alert the other before firing.

Buddy, looking left and calling, spots coyote. Me, looking right spots nothing. Buddy skips Step #2 and touches-off 30-06. Cave roof collapses. A cloud of dirt, two frantic, choking, varmint hunters clawing their way out from under 400 pound of dirt and rock, with ears ringing, and one missing coyote never to be seen again.

Must have looked like an improvised explosive device on a Baghdad roadside.

Coyote probably died of laughter while describing what he'd seen to his buddies.

Every time I see some TV show or movie with guys letting off their pistols in a car, I cringe.

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Originally posted by Kensco:
Did the same in a shallow cave in the Mogollon mountains of New Mexico years ago. Backed up tight, scrunched over, against the back wall of the little cave high on the rim, while calling coyotes that we thought might be in the dry ravine far bottom. The plan was that my buddy, or I, seeing a coyote would, Step #2, alert the other before firing.

Buddy, looking left and calling, spots coyote. Me, looking right spots nothing. Buddy skips Step #2 and touches-off 30-06. Cave roof collapses. A cloud of dirt, two frantic, choking, varmint hunters clawing their way out from under 400 pound of dirt and rock, with ears ringing, and one missing coyote never to be seen again.

Must have looked like an improvised explosive device on a Baghdad roadside.

Coyote probably died of laughter while describing what he'd seen to his buddies.

Bonne annee Wink and all

One friend of mine(I won't give his name) shot a trophy roebuck from his car. Eardrums almost burst and the windshield a memory.

I often take a test shot from my covered porch. I have an open sided firewood shed 25 yds across the driveway. I hang a target on the outside tier of wood. For some reason I always thought it prudent to have the muzzle out of the door though.

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Originally posted by Kensco:
Did the same in a shallow cave in the Mogollon mountains of New Mexico years ago. Backed up tight, scrunched over, against the back wall of the little cave high on the rim, while calling coyotes that we thought might be in the dry ravine far bottom. The plan was that my buddy, or I, seeing a coyote would, Step #2, alert the other before firing.

Buddy, looking left and calling, spots coyote. Me, looking right spots nothing. Buddy skips Step #2 and touches-off 30-06. Cave roof collapses. A cloud of dirt, two frantic, choking, varmint hunters clawing their way out from under 400 pound of dirt and rock, with ears ringing, and one missing coyote never to be seen again.

Must have looked like an improvised explosive device on a Baghdad roadside.

Coyote probably died of laughter while describing what he'd seen to his buddies.

That is a good one.

I have another. While rabbit/squirrel/quail or anything that needed shooting hunting. This happened when I was a teenager, 16 or 17 >50 years ago. The three of us, my buds and I, couldn't find anything to shoot. While sitting puffing on a smoke, I found a golf ball. Parked that bad boy up on a knot on a fence post. My plan was to vaporize it with a load of hi-power #6 shot from my new Model 1100 12 ga. A golf ball is a tough critter. From about 6 ft away I blasted it. The shot drove the remains of the golf ball against the post and on the rebound by my head and was last seen going out of sight.

It just wasn't my day to die yet.

What?

I see no reason not to shoot in enclosed areas. It's no longer rather loud and the ringing in my ears hasn't increased a bit!

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What?

I see no reason not to shoot in enclosed areas. It's no longer rather loud and the ringing in my ears hasn't increased a bit!

You must have young ears. After many seasons of dove hunting when I was younger..., well it adds up when a person gets kind of long in the tooth. Either that or your hearing is already "shot", so to speak. What did you say?

Seems to me, movie gun shots are technically dubbed in, the real thing doesn't record well.

Grizz

One of my dad's old cars (57 Chevy) had a bullet hole in the roof but he never wanted to talk about it. I'm still not sure what happened.

Using a tree as a shooting support for a 454 Casull revolver is also not recommended if the gun is right by the tree. Damn bells ring for a long time after a sound like that

Years ago a coworker and I were out cruising the back roads west of Mountainair looking for something that needed shootin.

We came across a jacktrabit so I cut loose with the trusty ol flat top 44 Mag.

You know shooting out of a pickup is louder if the window on the other side is rolled up!Of course that is the ONLY time I ever shot that gun while in a vehicle.

Today's world with earplugs and it may not be a problem.

While we are all confessing:

#1 We have a local shooting range that has an indoor rifle range, a 100yd long concrete tube. Not as fancy as Saeed's set up, but it works. I sighted 375h&h once...once

#2 I have been in bands all my life, and there was bar we used to play back in the late 70s in Iowa City Ia, called The Moody Blue. There was a young lady that hung out there and some times tended bar that I was lust with. I was 19, and she was mid twenty something, and she never caved in to my substantial charm, til one night she asked if I wanted to go to a party with her after we were done, game on! We ended up at this college party in a small apartment, and she was off with some friends. I started talking to one of the guys that lived at the apartment and the talk turned to firearms. He was telling me he had a .44mag Blackhawk, and would I like to check it out? I said yes and we went back to his room. The .44 hung in a western style rig on the bed post. He handed it to me, and of course I checked to see if it was loaded, which it was. I said "hey this thing is loaded", to which he replied, "of course it is, would be no good if it wasn't". He then grabbed it out of my hand (he was EXTREMELY intoxicated) pointed it out the door (and into the bathroom) and pulled the trigger. Good thing no one was on the toilet, because it shattered that, and destroyed the fiberglass bath tub as well, beyond that was an outside wall, so I don't know if it exited or not, but it sure cleared the apartment out, my hearing didn't really return for a couple days.

Years ago, as a student, I was driving my VW beetle along a dirt road on my way to a game farm. A warthog runs across the road, and my friend in the backseat draws his 357 Ruger Security Six and lets rip through my open window. 30 years later I sill have a significant difference difference in hearing between my left and right ears. It was a wonderful disability when the boys were younger and crying at night - I obviously could not hear them when sleeping on my " good ear" side!