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Gun Fire icon
ItemClassicRetailClassicForever

Gun Fire

A single crack of a hunter's rifle.

Art: The MOTHERLODE!! loading screen · Blizzard Entertainment. The MOTHERLODE!!: gunpowder and goblins

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How to install it on a phone, Discord, Windows or a stream

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Where you hear it

gunfire01.ogg is the crack of a rifle or blunderbuss. Dwarf hunters, famous for their guns, made this a signature sound of Ironforge's rangers. Engineers craft many of the guns in the game. The sound is loud and very short. It works as a sharp attention-grabbing alert.

TriggerPlays when a character fires an equipped gun.

In the game client

Client pathsounditemweaponsgunfire01.ogg
FileDataID567617
ExpansionClassic
Game versionsRetail, Classic, Forever
Duration1.7s
Sample rate22,050 Hz
ChannelsMono
MP3 size37 KB
M4R size19 KB
OGG size15 KB

Other weapons sounds in the client

  • Weapon loopsound/item/weapons/weaponloop.oggFDID 567616

Use it as

Notification sound

Over a text, a loud, short crack registers instantly and is hard to confuse with a stock phone chime.

Discord soundboard

On a soundboard the 1.7-second Gun Fire clip lands and finishes before anyone has to stop talking.

iPhone

  1. Tap iPhone ringtone (.m4r) above and choose Download.
  2. Open the Files app, go to Downloads and open the file.
  3. Tap Share, then Use as Ringtone (iOS 26).
  4. Pick it in Settings, Sounds & Haptics, Ringtone or Text Tone.

Full iPhone steps, including older iOS

Android

  1. Tap Download MP3 above.
  2. Open Settings, Sound & vibration, then Phone ringtone or Default notification sound.
  3. Tap My sounds, then +, and pick the MP3 from Downloads.

Full Android steps, Pixel and Samsung

Discord

  1. Download the OGG or MP3 above.
  2. Open Server Settings, Soundboard, Upload Sound, and pick the file.
  3. Name it and choose an emoji. You need the Manage Expressions permission.

Discord takes clips up to 5.2 seconds and 512 KB; this one fits.

Windows

  1. Windows sound schemes only take WAV files, so convert the MP3 to WAV first (Audacity or any audio converter does it in one export).
  2. Open Settings, System, Sound, More sound settings, then the Sounds tab.
  3. Pick an event such as Notification, click Browse, choose the WAV, then Apply.

OBS alert

  1. Download the MP3 above.
  2. In your alert tool (Streamlabs or StreamElements) set it as the alert sound file.
  3. Or in OBS add a Media Source with the MP3, untick Loop, and fire it with a hotkey.

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