New Years Tradition.

[Oldcountryboy]

Well I just woke the neighborhood up. If they was asleep. Around here it's traditional to shoot your gun off at midnight. That's usually when I shoot my 50 caliber muzzleloader. Been loaded since muzzleloading deer season. Didn't shoot anything so been needing to unload it and clean it. That's what usually happens. I load it up the night before primitive deer season begins (in Nov.) and unload it New Years eve.

[glazed]

[tinknal]

Apparently this used to ba a custom hereabouts. Old guy I worked with told me that one year his Daddy put a case of dynamite in an old Model A sitting on a hill and set it off. Claimed that it broke every window within a half a mile and that every cow in the neighborhood stopped milking for 2 days.

[Beeman]

If I had 2 anvils we could really make some noise. We just let the old shotgun make our noise for us.

[culpeper]

You sound like the kind of person who would make your neighbours homidical!

Why not bang saucepan lids together - far less lethal, and very effective at scaring away evil spirits.

[tinknal]

Originally Posted by culpeper

You sound like the kind of person who would make your neighbours homidical!

Why not bang saucepan lids together - far less lethal, and very effective at scaring away evil spirits.

How else you gonna empty a muzzle loader?

[Beeman]

Originally Posted by culpeper

You sound like the kind of person who would make your neighbours homidical!

Why not bang saucepan lids together - far less lethal, and very effective at scaring away evil spirits.

Lethal? I don't live in an apartment house.

As a friend say there's proof of God's love in him in the fact his neighbors are still alive. I make noise 2 days of the year, they're at it 365.

[Toads tool]

There's nothing wrong in lettting your neighbors know you are still there.

I usually have a bonfire at least once a year big enough to bring my neighbors around thinking I've torched my house.
My closest neighbor is over a mile away.

[lovinthislife]

We usually shoot our guns off on New Year's Eve too. This year we just wished each other a happy new year and went to bed. getting kinda lazy around here I guess. happy new year every one

[Wayne02]

I don't shoot my guns off on new years, but it is a tradition with many folks around here to let loose with a bunch of rounds in addition to the massive amounts of fireworks that they set off.

There are three days that the guns and fireworks come out for celebration purposes (and a few in between for practice I suppose). Fourth of July, New Years, and that British holiday? Can't remember what the name is but we have a few British families in this area that celebrate that day with much enthusiasm.

This is yet another example of the paradigm that is is 'quieter' in the country vs. suburbs or city. Us rednecks and farmers around here are a noisy bunch, especially when they are 'celebrating'.

I think shooting firearms off in celebration is just fine as long as it can be done in a safe manner with a known backstop. Too often we have people around here that like to shoot them up in the air, which depending on the population density of your immediate and extended area may or may not be a safe practice.

[mosepijo]

I was asleep at midnight but the sound of the towns "Cannon" went off.

It rattled our windows.

I smiled and went back to sleep. (Happy New Year)

[RusticOkie]

Lots of gun shots and fireworks around here. We watched from the window.

[BlueberryChick]

We heard a few shots around here New Year's Eve.

On the subject of loud shots, DH and I were outside a couple of months ago, and heard what sounded like a very close shot. He jumped on his tractor and headed over to check it out. Turns out, it wasn't that close, just an amazingly loud gun.

[ronbre]

hope you shoot them at a target, i know people have been hit with rounds returning to the ground when they are shot into the air..they come down about as fast as they go up.

[suitcase_sally]

My tiny dog tried to climb into my bathrom cabinet. Afraid. VERY afraid.