It wasn’t a shooting range. That part of Arizona is pretty rural, and it looks like they rolled onto some land where people were doing target practice. Not uncommon for a rural community.
This is exactly how I ended up getting shot at while hiking. A bunch of drunk assholes decided to do target practice without checking what was down range, or they just didn’t care that they were shooting towards a trail. Either way, bullets were hitting trees near us so we took off running back the way we came.
If you don’t want to go deaf really quickly you should be wearing ear protection while shooting. If they were then I doubt they could have heard the ATV. If they weren’t wearing hearing protection then they were probably too deaf to hear anything anyways.
It wasn’t a shooting range. That part of Arizona is pretty rural, and it looks like they rolled onto some land where people were doing target practice. Not uncommon for a rural community.
This is exactly how I ended up getting shot at while hiking. A bunch of drunk assholes decided to do target practice without checking what was down range, or they just didn’t care that they were shooting towards a trail. Either way, bullets were hitting trees near us so we took off running back the way we came.
From what the video on the report seems to imply, it looks like the kids took their ATV on private property that their parents told them not to go on.
Still though, ATVs aren’t silent. The fact that they kept shooting wasn’t smart at all.
If you don’t want to go deaf really quickly you should be wearing ear protection while shooting. If they were then I doubt they could have heard the ATV. If they weren’t wearing hearing protection then they were probably too deaf to hear anything anyways.
It was an air rifle. Those are only around 70db.
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Well if they had ear protection they might not have heard them, it’s just a mess