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Thank you to @oceanblueeyes in the previous thread discussing calibres and the l.e. and the medical examiner working together to determine type of gun and bullets.
What I am also curious about is the noise level of certain guns. Can someone determine type of gun by the sound of it at a distance?
When someone who lives in the country or a rural area describes the sound of a shot from a gun in the way the neighbor describes the sound, does this mean they are possibly describing a sound from a high powered rifle as opposed to a shotgun?
I don't know much about guns and am hoping someone can explain what possibly is meant by the following statements.
Thank you in advance.
Excerpt from transcript (link below):
(Joan Smrekar):
"And I asked my husband, I said, were those gunshots? Because they were so loud? And he said, yes, and he said, it`s a big gun and I rolled over and looked at the time on my clock, and it said 12:38. My clock is off by seven minutes per the Sheriff`s department, so this happened roughly around 12:30."
"And when that happened, it was so overpowering, the noise, we did not hear anything else. There was no -- we hear the shots, like I said, from the woods, and they`re not anything near the sound of this gun."
CNN.com - Transcripts
ETA: Here's another quote about the sound:
“I hear one shot and the second shot was even louder yet,” Joan Smrekar said.
“It actually sounded like a car backfiring or something quite large,” her husband Tom Smrekar added.
UPDATE: Possible sighting of missing Wisconsin teen in Miami, couple killed identified
What I am also curious about is the noise level of certain guns. Can someone determine type of gun by the sound of it at a distance?
When someone who lives in the country or a rural area describes the sound of a shot from a gun in the way the neighbor describes the sound, does this mean they are possibly describing a sound from a high powered rifle as opposed to a shotgun?
I don't know much about guns and am hoping someone can explain what possibly is meant by the following statements.
Thank you in advance.
Excerpt from transcript (link below):
(Joan Smrekar):
"And I asked my husband, I said, were those gunshots? Because they were so loud? And he said, yes, and he said, it`s a big gun and I rolled over and looked at the time on my clock, and it said 12:38. My clock is off by seven minutes per the Sheriff`s department, so this happened roughly around 12:30."
"And when that happened, it was so overpowering, the noise, we did not hear anything else. There was no -- we hear the shots, like I said, from the woods, and they`re not anything near the sound of this gun."
CNN.com - Transcripts
ETA: Here's another quote about the sound:
“I hear one shot and the second shot was even louder yet,” Joan Smrekar said.
“It actually sounded like a car backfiring or something quite large,” her husband Tom Smrekar added.
UPDATE: Possible sighting of missing Wisconsin teen in Miami, couple killed identified
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