{"id":16221,"date":"2022-02-25T05:49:38","date_gmt":"2022-02-25T13:49:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/?p=16221"},"modified":"2023-05-14T06:39:13","modified_gmt":"2023-05-14T13:39:13","slug":"ill-be-bach-the-amt-1911-hardballer-long-slide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/2022\/02\/25\/ill-be-bach-the-amt-1911-hardballer-long-slide\/","title":{"rendered":"I’ll be Bach: The AMT 1911 Hardballer Long Slide"},"content":{"rendered":"

“I’ll be Bach,” of course, is the written Austrian-accent impersonation of the Governator (i.e., Arnold) in what has to be one of the best sci-fi movies ever, Terminator<\/a><\/em>.\u00a0 One of the several guns that received top billing in that movie was an AMT Long Slide Hardballer equipped with a laser sight.<\/p>\n

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There are a lot of cool things to know about the Terminator<\/a><\/em> movie and its armament, not the least of which is that laser target designators were not yet available for handguns when the movie was released in 1985.\u00a0\u00a0Ahnold’s (misspelled intentionally) AMT Hardballer had a custom 10,000-volt laser, and the wiring for all that power was hidden in the future governor’s jacket sleeve.\u00a0 I liked the movie, but I especially liked seeing the Long Slide Hardballer 1911 in it.\u00a0 You see, I own one.\u00a0 It cost just $365 back in the day and it was manufactured by Arcadia Machine and Tool (hence the AMT moniker) just up the road from me in Monrovia, California.\u00a0 It is a stainless steel 1911, it has a 7-inch long slide and barrel, and it is accurate.\u00a0 That’s my gun you see in the phot0 at the top of this blog.\u00a0 One of these guns recently sold for close to $2,000 complete with box and papers.\u00a0 I have the box and papers that came with mine.\u00a0 And no, it’s not for sale.<\/p>\n

The Hardballer is surprisingly accurate.\u00a0 The 2-inch longer sight radius really works.\u00a0 Mine has not been tightened up, accurized, or modified in any way.\u00a0 The trigger pull is a bit higher than I would like, but it’s crisp (one of these days, I may get around to having TJ of TJ’s Custom Gunworks<\/a> do a trigger job on it).\u00a0 I found the targets you see below in an old reloading notebook; they were all fired by yours truly, standing, at 50 feet.\u00a0 I guess that old saying is true:\u00a0 The older I get, the better I was.<\/p>\n

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I’ve owned my Hardballer for close to 40 years now.\u00a0 The AMT company is no more, so there won’t be any more of them.\u00a0 It’s a classic, and I need to get out and shoot it more often.\u00a0 Maybe I’ll do that today.<\/p>\n

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