Gunfire!!!

[Tomahawk]

I keep hearing a noise that sounds like automatic weapon fire ..
Been going on all day.

 

[Biggles Wader]

It will be muslims and council workers, getting closer. Id run away

 

[sarabande]

Tractor flailing hedges ?

 

[Tomahawk]

Doesn't sound like a tractor flail..
Or a tree shredder
It's a staccato noise

 

[sarabande]

Is the bearing constant ?

 

[sailorman]

Shoeburyness

 

[MikeBz]

We hear (or rather feel, as the house shakes) explosions from Shoeburyness whenever they are testing munitions but I've never heard gunfire from there. We do often hear gunfire from the Fingringhoe Ranges. Schedules: East region firing times

 

[Tomahawk]

A local shoot I think.

 

[PaulRainbow]

A local shoot I think.

With automatic weapons ? That hardly seems fair

 

[MikeBz]

It's the anti-Turnstone brigade - quite hard to make a significant dent in the population of the blighters with a 12-bore.

 

[Keith 66]

Disposal of munitions often takes place over there & a few years back we saw a massive fireworks display over there from the Swin, looked like cluster bombs going off.
Also a friend was in the Army & did a munitions disposal course over there, part of it was disposing of .50 cal browning ammo, basically they were given a lorry load of the stuff & two machine guns plus spare barrels & told "shoot that lot off". It took them some time.

 

[AntarcticPilot]

Someone's after jet-skis!

 

[johnalison]

We often hear automatic gunfire from Wivenhoe but not so often the big stuff, though that often seems prominent at Brightlingsea or Walton. It is a salutary reminder of what our boys sometimes have to face.

 

[ex-Gladys]

We often hear automatic gunfire from Wivenhoe but not so often the big stuff, though that often seems prominent at Brightlingsea or Walton. It is a salutary reminder of what our boys sometimes have to face.

That's from the ranges south of Colchester

 

[Tomahawk]

If so they a.pre playing with some heavy kit if we can hear it in Bsea.

 

[MikeBz]

That's from the ranges south of Colchester

Fingringhoe - we often hear the gunfire from there especially at night.

 

[ex-Gladys]

If so they a.pre playing with some heavy kit if we can hear it in Bsea.

Depends on wind direction. Here in Rowhedge we get Chinooks playing with the boys at the ranges as well.

 

[Chalk]

Is the bearing constant ?

Piling?

 

[oldgit]

Depends on wind direction. Here in Rowhedge we get Chinooks playing with the boys at the ranges as well.

We recently have had Chinooks going over Upnor during the hours of darkness and the odd Black Hawk going over during the day.
They all seem to be coming from the East and heading directly towards London.
You can hear them coming from miles away.