if a person were not deafened enough already by seven years of shooting , and if on the off chance they were listening very hard indeed from as far away as the catholic mission in tubmanburg , they might perhaps have heard the multitude of rifle rounds discharged into the back of larrys jeep , causing him to swerve violently to his right , and his old banger to tumble dramatically and several times downwards into the gully below , before a calm and perfect silence descended on the little village of gayah hill .