Greetings from that other country where JMB felt at home

[svandamme]

Originally Posted by kramm

Welcome! Are there any other 1911 shooters at your gun club(range)? If there are what do they have?

Well, from what i hear a couple of the older guys have or have had a 1911 Colt.
But i don't often see em at the range shooting it..

Mostly .22 shooters at our range, for competition.
Walther ESP , Hammerlii X ESSE stuff.


There's also a 100 meter range, but those are mostly hunters that come to practice pre-hunting season.

Active Gun ownership is not as obvious in Belgium (though plenty of unregistered guns, some say 2 million guns vs 11 million Belgians).

So i had the choice, either i followed the .22 route, then upgrade eventually to a 9mm , and then a .45..

Or... I figured i might as well get the .45 and buy ammo and reloading equipment with the money i would have spent on the .22 and 9mm...

I feel more content making fewer bigger holes then lot's of tiny ones.
And it's quite fun showing up at the range, and see the heads pop up from the other lanes when the .45 starts making noise

Next on my list, maybe next year, would be a Springfield Armour M1a..
To reach out and touch.


It helps that i live on a small hill, one of the few hills where the Britts managed to keep control during WW1..Maybe i should try digging, i might find some Brittish officer 1911 in .445 webbley in my backgarden