I also saw one of these the other day, I have an old M1 and reload for it, thought it might be nice to have a sidearm in the same cal. Can anyone give me some advise (good or bad) about these pistols.

I had one. Very nice gun, quite accurate (long sight radius). Very impressive noise. Sold it because I just could not find a use for it. However it was certainly enjoyable to shoot!
Peter.

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Originally posted by Peter:
Sold it because I just could not find a use for it.

We have to have a use for all of them?

i've had one of them in the cabinets for years now. always worked just fine. only disadvantage about it is its size & weight. definitely not a ccw piece. also it is an ear muff special.

I had an AMT IV in 45 win mag, It took a lot of tweaking and load experimenting to get something I liked and could shoot reliably.

I wish I still had it just because I wish I still had everything, but I really think it suffered from being at the very edge of the locking lug design with a heavy bullet at those pressures. For the 30 i bet it would be fine.

On the other hand, parts can be scarce, mags are too, and if you just want a sidearm that ingests anything from your longarm I think the thing to have is a wheelgun. No brass chasing if that matters. case length may be an issue to work out between the two but charge and bullet should have no serious effect.

Fun pistols, for sure. I would rather have my Ruger Blackhawk in 30 Carbine back before an AMT, though. I don't have a preference for revolvers over autos but my Ruger shot much better and was even louder, if that is possible. The fireball from either is impressive, too.

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Originally posted by tiggertate:
but my Ruger shot much better and was even louder, if that is possible. The fireball from either is impressive, too.

Ain't that so true--How did they make that thing so Loud--must have had acoustic engineers up all night for months working on that.

funny thing, there is one for sale here at a local gun shop.

Rich

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Originally posted by DuggaBoye:

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Originally posted by tiggertate:
but my Ruger shot much better and was even louder, if that is possible. The fireball from either is impressive, too.

Ain't that so true--How did they make that thing so Loud--must have had acoustic engineers up all night for months working on that.

A big fireball and concussion is usually a result of using ball powders.