Yeah, I'm only used to gunshots when I'm hunting. Except one time when I was visiting a relative in Houston and some mexicans came around the corner and fired a shot out the window. That scared the crap out of me, but it didn't look like they were aiming at anything.

As for not going into the woods... I live in them. So I really can't avoid them at night. Granted I don't go into them, but they are always right there.