My only experience with anything AMT is an early childhood memory. My uncle Steve came back home to PA from CA for a couple weeks every summer, and he always brought a couple of guns with him if he drove. It was the summer of '79 or '80 when I shot my first .45 auto. I was 10 or 11 years old and stainless autos were something pretty new. He lived in Monrovia and Arcadia was just down the street. The Hardballer was a tricked out .45 for a early '80s factory gun. I don't recall if I even hit the target, but that was the coolest gun it the world to me at that moment.