Hay Wally, Do what I do, play your radio while you shoot ! Turn it up to where you like to hear it from your shooting position, and that should cover most of the noise that you cranky neighbors complain about...I have a neighbor that tells me he heard me outside shooting every few nights, and asks me what I was shooting at, I realy seldom shoot outside, especially in the warmer weather, because of the young children on two sides of me. But I tell him that I took out a sick Possum, or a bad Squirrel (he hates squirrels). No Problems, and he realy never knows when and where I'm shootin :-). When I do shoot in my yard, SAFETY is always my first concern, and I have my radio to cover there imaginations, so far, NO Complaints.......Bill .P.S. He wants me to take out more of his pesky Squirrels, they are chewing on his house ! I told him he should have noticed a big thinning out of the heard by now, with all those squirrels that I have taken out for him ! He said they must be like air, and keep coming in after a few are thinned out :-), GOSH, I love him !