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21 hours ago, eid said:

I've been in, and opposite, Springwood Haven for the past 2 weeks (hull blacking etc etc). Someone told me last week that he heard gunshots from the woods opposite the marina (I was opposite at the time), but I must have slept through it ?.

 

About 6ish this evening we heard a gun blast, just the once, which is strange. Sounds like a farmer is scaring something off... I'm intrigued.

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1 hour ago, Jennifer McM said:

About 6ish this evening we heard a gun blast, just the once, which is strange. Sounds like a farmer is scaring something off... I'm intrigued.

If you’re still near Gipsy Lane then you have a farm in front of you and one the other side of the quarry to your right (assuming you’re pointing towards Nuneaton). Both of those farms use occasional bird scarers which sound like a shotgun. 

 

Other farmers probably do likewise. 

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2 minutes ago, WotEver said:

If you’re still near Gipsy Lane then you have a farm in front of you and one the other side of the quarry to your right (assuming you’re pointing towards Nuneaton). Both of those farms use occasional bird scarers which sound like a shotgun. 

 

Other farmers probably do likewise. 

Wouldn't it be more regular if it was this?

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1 minute ago, eid said:

Wouldn't it be more regular if it was this?

The farmer at the back of our house used to use a regular one up until this year. New for 2018 appears to be just the occasional bang. 

I guess it could also be railway workers using a Hilti 

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4 hours ago, roland elsdon said:

Alright alright. I know im old and have been living either in rural australia for the last 15 years or on my extremely basic 1930s boat ( when we left tv was analogue) and the one we stored no longer works but

vox pop?

one show?

ee dongle?

 

vblogger?

blogger?

its a whole new world i thought having an iphone made me pretty up to date

 

It's all rubbish. But now its digital rubbish instead of analogue rubbish, which means it's more expensive and lower quality. And I've still got a Nokia E90, so I wouldn't worry about being a luddite if I were you... 

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23 minutes ago, Arthur Marshall said:

It's all rubbish. But now its digital rubbish instead of analogue rubbish, which means it's more expensive and lower quality. And I've still got a Nokia E90, so I wouldn't worry about being a luddite if I were you... 

But you're only an amateur Luddite, us professional Luddites still have our original Nokia 6300?

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9 hours ago, WotEver said:

If you’re still near Gipsy Lane then you have a farm in front of you and one the other side of the quarry to your right (assuming you’re pointing towards Nuneaton). Both of those farms use occasional bird scarers which sound like a shotgun. 

 

Other farmers probably do likewise. 

This was outside Springwood Haven Marina, where the other gunshot sound was. I would imagine it's the farmer.

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Nokia 6310 is back in production I believe.

All too modern for me , Nokia 1200 dumb phone owner.

 

I first discovered that a tube TV floats face up on the Nuneaton stretch, terrible picture though. On one run we had two complete 3 piece suites, cushions and all, down near the estate iron bridge. And somewhere under that bridge is/was a massive magnet, I watched the guy lose it trying to get his folding truck out, after the cargo net the kids had hung from the bridge, whipped it of his roof.

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12 hours ago, WotEver said:

The farmer at the back of our house used to use a regular one up until this year. New for 2018 appears to be just the occasional bang. 

I guess it could also be railway workers using a Hilti 

Or perhaps, if workers are on the track a warning detonator? 

Are they still used?

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37 minutes ago, Ray T said:

Or perhaps, if workers are on the track a warning detonator? 

Are they still used?

There was a goods train derailment in the area yesterday: https://www.coventrytelegraph.net/news/local-news/derailed-train-causes-major-disruption-15144964

 

But that doesn't explain the first report of a gunshot 

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45 minutes ago, Ray T said:

Or perhaps, if workers are on the track a warning detonator? 

Are they still used?

Detonators are still used but a single shot is a warning to a moving train that a signal in advance could be at danger.  Seems unlikely in that area and if used that way there would be single shots at frequent intervals on such a busy line.

 

A complete blockage requires 3 detonators spaced out 20yds so a train encroaching would set off 3 shots in quick succession, unless an approaching train accidently hit the first det and then stopped.  Given the freight train derailment there that could be a possibility as an assisting loco approached.

 

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22 minutes ago, Jennifer McM said:

There was a goods train derailment in the area yesterday: https://www.coventrytelegraph.net/news/local-news/derailed-train-causes-major-disruption-15144964

 

But that doesn't explain the first report of a gunshot 

 

Probably whoever caused it being disciplined ?

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