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#22 ·
Ka-boom! The nieghbors came out with hats and noisemakers after that blast. Zone 7 along the rt 31 corridor, hunterdon/warren cty border is exploding with gunfire, dogs howling! LOL! I never took into thought I live facing a huge rock quarry wall, that muzzy echo repeated 5 times! Really Cool!

Happy New Year Folks, now into my special blood orange martinis. Absolute with a few drops of blood orange juice.

Salute' to my brethern for a great winter bow season!
 
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#27 ·
Fish Hunter, pretty close, about a mile past Spruce Run on the right.
 
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#31 ·
yup family tradition...my uncle has a sick arsenal and we shoot 100's of rounds every new years and 4th of july...[up][up]and i also fill a big CO2 container with powder and bury it in the ground about a foot and BOOM...hmmm i wonder why there is no deer in the area after the new year[rofl]
 
#33 ·
the darker side of my family used to shoot the street lights out years ago......
 
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#34 ·
I can't beleive the amount of idiots in town shooting starting before midnite. Someone a block or two away must have shot 100 rounds in 15 round blocks. Must have been letting every handjob at his party run a clip at a time.

After the shooting heard sirens, not sure if the police were responding to the shootings, or to an injured person.

If you have to make noise, use fireworks, don't let drunks or drinkers outside useing live ammo.
 
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#40 ·
From Mythbusters

Bullets fired into the air maintain their lethal capability when they eventually fall back down.
busted / plausible / confirmed

In the case of a bullet fired at a precisely vertical angle (something extremely difficult for a human being to duplicate), the bullet would tumble, lose its spin, and fall at a much slower speed due to terminal velocity and is therefore rendered less than lethal on impact. However, if a bullet is fired upward at a non-vertical angle (a far more probable possibility), it will maintain its spin and will reach a high enough speed to be lethal on impact. Because of this potentiality, firing a gun into the air is illegal in most states, and even in the states that it is legal, it is not recommended by the police. Also the MythBusters were able to identify two people who had been injured by falling bullets, one of them fatally injured. To date, this is the only myth to receive all three ratings at the same time.

Also,
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/...nalpos=7&itool=EntrezSystem2.PEntrez.Pubmed.Pubmed_ResultsPanel.Pubmed_RVDocSum
 
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