Since most of the cooking yesterday was in the crock pot, we found ourselves with a little time on our hands. We decided to go to the range and rent one of their .45 caliber Springfield 1911 pistols. We bought a hundred rounds of ammunition, got a couple of silhouette targets and went out to a booth to shoot.
We found out a couple of things about the pistol; it had a kick only a little greater than our 9mm pistols and we each got hit by ejected brass since the casings seemed to fly out in semi-random directions.
All in all, it was fun though and we got a taste of shooting the larger caliber.
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