AMT .45acp Backup, smallest .45 ever built?

A company called Downsizer makes a single shot .45 that's smaller than a playing card. It's supposed to be extremely painful to shoot.
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Ive seen those before, they are really well made, but I don't see the point.

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Semmerling .45.

It held four rounds, and the slide had to be manually cycled for each shot, but it was a tiny little bugger.

LawDog
 
The Simmerling was smaller than the AMT. It was/is a magazine fed manulay operated pistol. Another of those things I passed on and should have bought. They were not that bad to shoot, recoil wise, and had a decent trigger, if I remember correctly.

AMT may mean the smallest .45 semiauto, however.

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I'm sure they mean they produce the smallest repeating .45. That being the case they are still mistake. The Semmerling LM-4 Vest Pocket .45 auto is smaller......I believe.

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The only problem with the AMT is that it is not a repeater. If you have the muscles to work the 20-pound or so trigger, you still will get failures to fire. Then if you are lucky enough to get it to fire, it will fail to feed.

Gimme a sharp stick over the "Break-Up."
 
Unless I'm thinking of something else- doesn't American Derringer make (or made) the Semmerling LM-4 and it was like $2500 or something obscene like that (hand built)- whatever little 45 AD made, it looked really neat.
 
I friend of mine bought one of those AMT .45's and it was a POS. It had a 20 pound trigger pull and the spent cases would come straight back and hit you in the eyes or forehead.
 
Arizona Eric,

I was working the failure problem out of an AMT .45. It appears that the mags are slightly spread at the top, allowing the third round to go slightly high enough for the round being extracted to get it's rim caught on the top edge of the brass of the next round to be fed. I guess the mag spring is slightly stonger at the mid point and the top of the mag is weak. I was debating about pinching the top of the mag slightly or just trying a new mag. Probably a new mag because the old mag is unlikely to hold the shape.

They are small and inexpensive. I happen to like the heavy trigger pull for something that resides in your pocket. You have to admit, they are reasonably priced little pocket cannons.
 
I have not had any problems with mu AMT DOA .45. The trigger pull is heavy and only by doing some reconstructive work on the trigger itself can that be improved. The trigger has to be reshaped and the finger pad angle changed.

All three magazines I have work just fine. From what I have seen, if an AMT DOA .45 works, it works just fine and if it does not, it will never work correctly.

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"If there be treachery, let there be jehad!"
 
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