To shoot or not to shoot on own land

[Desert Rat]

My range area is about 300 yards long and I am using a little over 200. It is L shaped so I have a high berm all around but the noise still can be heard at the house across a 60 ft ridge while shooting in the opposite direction. I live across Clinch mountain from the county seat and only have one neighbor within one mile. I do hear gun fire from the area down the road from time to time but I think lately they have heard more from my place.

[Guest Lester Weevils]

Thanks Desert Rat. Guess a berm ain't so good for soundproofing then. That sounds like a nice private range!

[Mike.357]

I believe mine is much quieter in the summer when the trees are all grown in. It also sits down in a depression on three sides and is completely in the woods anyway.

I will keep shooting until the cops show up, and then will invite them to join me.

[Guest 270win]

Why would you not be able to shoot in the country? If you are not in a city that doesn't have some city ordinance against shooting and fireworks, you should be fine. That is the whole point of living outside the city limits in the country, to do what you want on your own property and shoot fireworks and guns. I used to shoot at a deserted saw mill on paper company land when I was growing up outside Little Rock. There was a big sawdust pile that made a good safe backstop. New neighbors complained about the noise, but they soon learned that the only way to avoid the noise was to move in town. They got used to the noise and me walking down the street with a gun or two and targets to go to the paper company land. Your neighbors will get used to it too. If they dont, tell them to move in town.

[Guest MoonMan]

thanks all we got 44 acres inherited to us and my parents back up with another 150.

[Louisb]

I saw NOTHING but wrong answers starting with the gunsmith BS.

Look up the law it is fairly explicit.

Then determine if one is in an incorporated city or town that may have more strict ordnance.

[Kenstaroni]

I have some rural land in Middle Tn. Me and my buddies go shooting all the time. We've had 6 AR's firing at the same time at a bunch of clay pigeons....nothing like the sound of 180 .223 rounds going off in 15 seconds...lol

[Fallguy]

I saw NOTHING but wrong answers starting with the gunsmith BS.

Look up the law it is fairly explicit.

Then determine if one is in an incorporated city or town that may have more strict ordnance.

Care to elaborate?.....

[Guest Glock23ForMe]

I have some rural land in Middle Tn. Me and my buddies go shooting all the time. We've had 6 AR's firing at the same time at a bunch of clay pigeons....nothing like the sound of 180 .223 rounds going off in 15 seconds...lol

Some of me and my buddies did that, but with 10 shotguns at 2 or three clays at a time... It was on Mother's Day... Didn't turn out so well with the neighbors, but the police never came and arrested all of us.

[Kenstaroni]

Some of me and my buddies did that, but with 10 shotguns at 2 or three clays at a time... It was on Mother's Day... Didn't turn out so well with the neighbors, but the police never came and arrested all of us.

My land is well off the beaten path so no issues with neighbors. It's off a private road that's gated, so anyone who wanted to come see what was going on would have to first tresspass onto the road through the gate, then tresspass again through the gate at the property. If they did that they would not be "welcomed" by me...lol

I am hopefully moving back to Nashville in the next couple months so I can't wait to have my private shooting range back. I have a small cabin with a wood burning stove which makes a great place to camp out and is awesome for Deer season as I can just walk out of the cabin and hop in a deer stand.

[Fallguy]

Well I think all counties are non-charter by default, but can choose to become a charter county.

I have emailed CTAS for more information.

Here is what I sent to CTAS

was looking on the CTAS website, but was unable to find the information I was seeking. I was hoping that maybe you could help.

One question I had was, I wanted to verify that only counties that have adopted of Charter form of county government can pass County ordinances (T.C.A. 5-1-211) that aren't otherwise authorized by T.C.A. 5-1-118? Such as a Noise Ordnance etc...

If this is correct, do you have a list of counties that have passed a charter form of government?

Thank you for any help

Here is the reply I got

The answer to your question according to our attorney is stated as follows:

That is correct. There are two counties (Knox and Shelby) that have adopted charters under TCA 5-1-201

et seq

. Three counties (Davidson, Trousdale, and Moore) have adopted metropolitan charters under TCA 7-2-101

et seq

. Both of these forms of government are discussed in Chapter 10 of the Tennessee County Government Handbook.

Don J

So it would appear there are only 5 counties in TN that can make their own ordnances, two as charter counties three as metro governments.

[ffr1910]

Some of me and my buddies did that, but with 10 shotguns at 2 or three clays at a time... It was on Mother's Day... Didn't turn out so well with the neighbors, but the police never came and arrested all of us.

you werent out off of arno road were you? ffr1910