AMT Lightning

[parsons_12b]

Anyone here own or have experience with an AMT lighting 22 pistol?

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[nextgenar]

Anyone here own or have experience with an AMT lighting 22 pistol?

I have a 9" model, it's a blast to shoot, my daughter is able to keep golf balls rolling with it out to 50 yards.

 

[2ndtimer]

My late friend had a 10" AMT Lightning. It was very nice and accurate. He field stripped it and wasn't able to reassemble it. After the scecond time, I told him to quit taking it apart. Thanks to you tube videos for Ruger Auto pistols, I was able to get it back together for him both times.
If I recall correctly, AMT was successfully sued by Ruger for patent infringement, and had to quit manufacturing the Lightning. Bob's sure had a nice trigger on his, and it accounted for a bunch of ground squirrels over the years.

 

[AMT]

Is the OP a question, because of a problem? Or, a question as a "poll" to see who has them?

 

[parsons_12b]

Question as a potential buyer

 

[nextgenar]

Question as a potential buyer

Depending on the price, you won't be disappointed buying one. They are very well made, very accurate pistols with great triggers.

 

[KKG]

In my experience the AMT Guns were one of two things - Great or Pieces of Junk - nothing in between. As a 'Smith I saw lots of the Junk ones but I also heard good things about them. I know I had lots of trouble getting OEM Parts out of them. There Guns were all based on someone else's designs so fitting Ruger or 1911 parts wasn't a problem. And they were taken to Court by more than one Distributor for failure to deliver.

 

[parsons_12b]

I could not resist

 

[nextgenar]

View attachment 386058 I could not resist

She's beautiful!! What was the asking price? If you don't mind telling.

 

[parsons_12b]

$210 out the door

 

[nextgenar]

$210 out the door

Holy cow, that's a great price!!

 

[RVTECH]

What shop did you find this in?

 

[parsons_12b]

Lost Creek

What shop did you find this in?

 

[RVTECH]

Cool - I want to shoot it sometime !

 

[Misteramax]

Op, great deal man. A long time ago I got to shoot one and Imo are way more accurate than Rugers.

 

[parsons_12b]

Cool - I want to shoot it sometime !

Of course

 

[Sgt Nambu]

I had an AMT government model that was just a ugly, unreliable POS! Bad casting porosity in the frame and the polished areas were so bad you could look down them in the light and it looked like rolling Indiana farmland.....only less shiny! It was the FTF king, and I got rid of it most quickly, with full disclosure.
I also had an AMT .380 that made the .45 look like a Wilson Combat hand fit and finished piece! Blech! It on the other hand was very reliable and, for what it was, pretty accurate! Go figure, I kept it for years and carried it lots of times! Reminded me of that old song, "Never Make A Pretty woman Your Wife!" "Man, I saw your AMT the other day, and she's uggggly!" "Yeah, but she sure can cook!"

 

[Sgt Nambu]

$210 out the door

Wow! That is a great price, may she be as accurate as she was inexpensive!

 

[parsons_12b]

Well I ran two mags through it in the back yard and it ran flawlessly

 

[AMT]

View attachment 386058 I could not resist

Very nice folks there! I saw it too but passed on it. I hope it works for you!