Extremely Upset!

[kanaka44]

So, I was at my parents house today. They own 6 acres, the property goes down into a shallow canyon. After I was target shooting today I was walking back up to my parents house and saw a man at our property gate yelling at my dog! He screamed at me to come over to him. I told him to hold on, I went into the house to put away my guns and came out to talk to him. He started yelling at me stating, their are children who live all around the neighborhood and I had bullets flying over my head! I said, "No you didnt"... and he yelled, "If i hear anyone shoot on this property again I am calling the sheriff!!" He then asked my name, and when I asked him to identify himself he would not.. he only said, "I am a neighbor"

He gave me NO time to inform him I am a law enforcement officer and I have been shooting since I was 13 years old!! I know proper gun safety and by NO means were their any bullets flying by his head!!!! Not mine anyways! To have shot anywhere near him I would have had to point my gun straight up in the air at like 180deg. I immediately called the Sheriff to speak with the on duty Sargent, did not get a hold of him... however did speak to some of my buddies who are sheriff officer who say i am perfectly fine!

Anyone else have similar stories or can share some insight on how to deal with liberal gun hating neighbors!!

[Ed_Hazard]

I think you need to organize a group shoot at your property.

[choprzrul]

So, I was at my parents house today. They own 6 acres, the property goes down into a shallow canyon. After I was target shooting today I was walking back up to my parents house and saw a man at our property gate yelling at my dog! He screamed at me to come over to him. I told him to hold on, I went into the house to put away my guns and came out to talk to him. He started yelling at me stating, their are children who live all around the neighborhood and I had bullets flying over my head! I said, "No you didnt"... and he yelled, "If i hear anyone shoot on this property again I am calling the sheriff!!" He then asked my name, and when I asked him to identify himself he would not.. he only said, "I am a neighbor"

He gave me NO time to inform him I am a law enforcement officer and I have been shooting since I was 13 years old!! I know proper gun safety and by NO means were their any bullets flying by his head!!!! Not mine anyways! To have shot anywhere near him I would have had to point my gun straight up in the air at like 180deg. I immediately called the Sheriff to speak with the on duty Sargent, did not get a hold of him... however did speak to some of my buddies who are sheriff officer who say i am perfectly fine!

Anyone else have similar stories or can share some insight on how to deal with liberal gun hating neighbors!!

This didn't take place in 2008 west of Paso Robles did it?

Do you have another neighbor named Matt Hart?

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[choprzrul]

Darren Murphy is that you?

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[kanaka44]

No, this took place in the Gun Loving county of El Dorado!

[Bigtwin]

I too grew up in El Dorado county and had this type of problem! I think this thing is happening due to the influx of bay area transplants! Thinking they now live in the "quiet, peacefull hills"! My father owned 10 acres in the foothills as did all of the folks in the community(roads NOT paid for by the county, was private roads).
Some friends and I were riding our dirt bikes around and the sherif was called on us by one particular new resident complaining about us riding in the streets! When the sherif arrived he found me at the bottom of a ravine with a bike that would not start. After a breif talk the him (and his researching the area) he found us to be of no concern due to the fact that we were not on public roads(there werent any for over two miles), he helpfully gave me a ride to our property and said "sorry " for the folks why complained but," we are getting a ton of that crap as of late" (his words) we talked about how most folks up here live and how other people that did not grow up in the area "think" it should be. He also gave me a few pointers about the bike flooding out! That was about 13 years ago and my how things have changed. Growing up out there we would shoot off our back porch like no big deal, I could ride my dirt bike all day and never be on public land(still could if I lived there). God I miss living there even with the occasional retard new neighbor.

[AJAX22]

hehe,

I had a similar experiance outside of harmony...

Me and a friend were sitting on a hill shooting down into a valley with a great backstop when some assclown recently arived from los angeles comes out of his recently remodeled tuscan farm house about 300 yards away (and 90 degrees off of where we were shooting, across a highway from us) and started screaming and ranting about how we were shooting at him and how he was going to call the cops on us if we didn't stop shooting 'those guns'...

City folk got no respect for country life.

He didn't appreciate it when we stopped shooting the .22's and started in with the mausers and .30-06(hey he said to stop shooting THOSE guns... didn't say anything about the rest of them)

I'd love to hear how that 911 call went.. since we were a good 20 miles from the nearest law enforcement officer..

"Hello police? There are people shooting guns!!!!!"

"Where are you located sir"

"Well I'm a 1/2 mile outside of harmony 1/4 mile up a dirt road and they are across the highway, up in the hills shooting down into the valley"

"Does anyone need medical attention"

"No.. but"

"Has there been any property damage"

"no.. but"

"sir, If you would like to have an officer come out to take a report, we can do so, they should be free in 2 or 3 hours, in the future please do not tie up our lines lines with calls of this nature, 911 is for emergencies only. Thank you.

click...

[Massan]

+1 on group shoot.

[Ed_Hazard]

He did'nt happen to look like Henry winkler did he?

[Pthfndr]

No, this took place in the Gun Loving county of El Dorado!

What area of the county? I'm in the Pollock area. I shoot, the guy behind me shoots, the guy down the road shoots. We've been pretty lucky up here.

[bplvr]

+1 on group shoot.

This ^^^^^^^ / "Shoot 'n' Que" and a build party !!

[Neuvik]

I had folks complain about me shooting with large rifles, m24/47, 30-06, 91/30. Left a message on my phone asking if I was shooting cannons...was tempted to fire off my golf ball cannon so they could know the difference but oh well; they were polite so now I take my rifles to another property I own near a local golf course heh.

But since he was being a dweeb I say let loose with the large calibers (during sensible hours), expense of the ammo is a down payment for skill.

[kanaka44]

What area of the county? I'm in the Pollock area. I shoot, the guy behind me shoots, the guy down the road shoots. We've been pretty lucky up here.

Shingle Springs. Yeah. My Buddy is the EDSO officer on up there. He was telling me he gets calls every once and a while about ppl shooting. They mainly just check to make sure you have a good backstop, practicing good gun safety and as long as its not after hours.. SHOOT ON!!!

[J-cat]

He gave me NO time to inform him I am a law enforcement officer and I have been shooting since I was 13 years old!!

Informing someone like that you are a LEO will only get you in trouble at work. The best course of action is to tell him to get off your lawn or you'll call the Sheriff.

[kanaka44]

Informing someone like that you are a LEO will only get you in trouble at work. The best course of action is to tell him to get off your lawn or you'll call the Sheriff.

You are very right.. thats why I never do. And I cant stand ppl who play the LEO card... but to the forum, I just wanted to reference my job as meaning, I know how to use my firearms and I know gun safety!