Bang! Bang! What would you have done?

[rgranger]

Yesterday I was down on my boat doing some routine maintenance... it was overcast, cold and gloomy... not a comfortable day to be on a boat....a fishing boat came through the drawbridge just upstream from my marina and just as they got to the end of the no wake zone... I heard a bang. I looked up and saw a guy in the boat with his arm extended and a puff of smoke just beyond his hand... then another bang and another puff of smoke... the SOB was shooting at our no-wake buoy with what sounded like a .38

I called 911

 

[jssailem]

Duck and cover comes to mind...

 

[Siamese]

I wouldn't have done anything. Could've written down his numbers and called it in, but I wouldn't have. I don't condone random firearm discharges, but no...I wouldn't have done anything. If he did it on a regular basis, I'd make a call.

Is ".38" just your catchall term for a handgun, or can you differentiate between a 9mm, .45 acp,, .22, etc? Just curious.

 

[Davidasailor26]

I guess he was shooting away from the marina, toward what looks like empty land on the other side? Still, guy’s pretty brazen. Think I’d have done the same thing.

Friends of mine saw their neighbors shooting into the air a few weeks ago. (This is in a townhouse development, not someplace out in the country.) They went to the police station to make an anonymous complaint. A few hours later the county sheriff came to their house to ask them more questions about it. So much for the anonymity.

 

[rgranger]

Is ".38" just your catchall term for a handgun,

NO!

It was def a small cal. with low pressure... could have been a 22 but you don't see that many 22 pistols. I've shot both .38 and a 9 many time

 

[jssailem]

Is ".38" just your catchall term for a handgun, or can you differentiate between a 9mm, .45 acp,, .22, etc? Just curious.

While it is plausible that the "sounded like a .38" could be a catchall for a loud small framed gun used for target practice.

The .38 Special was the standard service cartridge for the majority of United States police departments from the 1920s to the 1990s. It was also a common sidearm cartridge used by United States military personnel in World War I, World War II, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War. ​

Known for its accuracy and manageable recoil, the .38 Special remains one of the most popular revolver cartridges in the world[8] more than a century after its introduction. It is used for recreational target shooting, formal target competition, personal defense, and small-game hunting.​

If you are among the fortunate to have heard on a range the various calibers of hand guns mentioned, the sound can be distinguishable.

 

[Don S/V ILLusion]

didnt someone invent smokeless powder 100 years ago?

 

[DaveJ]

I also would have called 911. Totally reckless.
And comment #3 in this thread, makes no sense.

 

[Siamese]

Generally, the OP is going to be looking for your opinion. Not necessarily your opinion on someone else's opinion.

 

[Project_Mayhem]

Someone might find their drain plug missing in the near future...

 

[JRacer]

• Black Hawk Down:
• Pilla : Colonel, they're shooting at us! Colonel, they're shooting at us!
  Sgt Danny McKnight : Well shoot back!

 

[Will Gilmore]

That guy must have been wronged by that bouy. Maybe it slept with his wife, or she slept with David Bouy, and the guy was just taking it out on the poor innocent bouy in his sites.

-Will

 

[rgranger]

If you are among the fortunate to have heard on a range the various calibers of hand guns mentioned, the sound can be distinguishable.

I am very fortunate. I own my grandfathers service .38. He was a game warden. I target shoot with it often.

 

[rgranger]

And comment #3 in this thread, makes no sense.

It makes total sense... if you assume he made a bunch of assumptions before posting...

 

[American_Mainsail]

I would've done the same: call 911.

I may have considered calling the harbormaster and/or the Coast Guard as well. There's no question about how reckless that is.

 

[rgranger]

I guess he was shooting away from the marina, toward what looks like empty land on the other side?

... Actually this is a pulled back view of the direction he was firing

 

[jssailem]

Whom ever fires a weapon usually is responsible for wherever the bullet lands.