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Less shooting here...
« on: July 05, 2022, 07:24:18 AM »
Overall, I heard a lot of decent fireworks this past weekend, but a lot less rounds being shot off... I think that the economy starting to have the real suck, combined with ammo prices, has the local miscreants going legit for the celebrations...
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Re: Less shooting here...
« Reply #1 on: July 05, 2022, 09:12:40 AM »
I'm just west of Austin, TX, and my suburb doesn't allow fireworks. Scofflaws (YAY FOR FIREWORK SCOFFLAWS!) still get them, but locally this year I think there was less 4th of July shooting than there was New Year's Eve shooting. Part of it may be the drought - fire danger apparently made a number of fireworks stands limit the types of fireworks they were selling.
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Re: Less shooting here...
« Reply #2 on: July 05, 2022, 09:28:36 AM »
We had both fireworks and (safe) shooting here, as per usual. This year a couple of my neighbors went high dollar with some pretty big ass skyrockets and mortars. It was almost like a professional show from my porch.  :laugh:

The good news was that most all of us had irrigated our fields in the last week, so no wildfires.  =)
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Re: Less shooting here...
« Reply #3 on: July 05, 2022, 04:31:18 PM »
An increase from last year, and judging from the sharpness of the reports and the patterns, there were more gunshots this year.
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Re: Less shooting here...
« Reply #4 on: July 05, 2022, 06:12:36 PM »
I didn't hear any gun shots this year.  That was strange because we normally hear quite a few.
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Re: Less shooting here...
« Reply #5 on: July 05, 2022, 07:48:55 PM »
I heard some gun shots yesterday, but I was shooting them (at targets) so it didn't bother me. 

I was visiting my parents and they have a burn ban going in their county.  No fireworks except the paid display in town. 
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Re: Less shooting here...
« Reply #6 on: July 05, 2022, 08:22:55 PM »
Frankly, I'm so zorched from work... I went to bed early on Independence Day, and mostly slept through the stuff...
 
(I think I hit 40 hours for the week this evening...)
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« Reply #7 on: July 05, 2022, 08:32:41 PM »
I watched a war movie I hadn't seen before.  Go For Broke!   About the Nisei Japanese-American troops fighting in Europe.  Not great, not too bad either.  The movie fighting probably under represented the casualties those outfits took from what I remember seeing previously. 
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Re: Less shooting here...
« Reply #8 on: July 05, 2022, 11:05:27 PM »
Quote from: MechAg94 on July 05, 2022, 08:32:41 PM
I watched a war movie I hadn't seen before.  Go For Broke!   About the Nisei Japanese-American troops fighting in Europe.  Not great, not too bad either.  The movie fighting probably under represented the casualties those outfits took from what I remember seeing previously. 

I liked that movie.

It was very hot here yesterday. We went to Rich Hill, MO for their big show once the sun started going down. I wasn't up for doing any shooting in the heat or when I got home. I don't lack ammo, just GTF.
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