Gunshot descriptive essay

Gunshots are meant to violently explode and expell energy immediately, whereas fireworks are more tuned towards pushing multiple projectiles all around them, so they're “slower”; more of a boom than a bang. Distance blurs the line between “booms” and “bangs” because of reverberations and volume.

Even naming the guns in this instance feels a bit much. "I drew my piece" or "his handgun clattered to the ground" works better IMHO. Dnaiel likes this. I generally describe equipment that is used over and over throughout the story as if they were another character sort of.

I generally describe equipment that is used over and over throughout the story as if they were another character sort of. Meaning, when I introduce the weapon into the story I give it two or three sentences of description and from there just use the name of the gun or equipment going forward.

I rolled aside as his leg swept out in an effort to catch me, I fired two shots upwards into his groin and abdomen, his Protecta (I mean, come on, a Protecta? This guy, did his mother pick out his guns for him? Those little .22 LR it shoots couldn't punch through a leather jacket.) clattering the down as my third shot took him in the head.