A dispute that lasted several days between feuding neighbors in Kiantone, which is just south of Jamestown, NY., rattled windows and could be heard from miles away when a civil war replica cannon was fired.

“We had reports from people that had heard the cannon go off,” explained County Sheriff Joseph A. Gerace.

According to the Buffalo News, after several days of the racket, sheriff’s deputies went to Brian J. Malta’s home on Prosser Hill Road in Kiantone, NY,

Accused of firing a replica Civil War cannon toward a neighbor’s property, the 52-year-old Malta was charged with three misdemeanor counts of menacing and three violation counts of harassment. He is free on $2,500 bail.

As for the dispute that prompted the blasts?

“It’s a civil matter,” Gerace said, declining to comment further on its nature.