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These used to be pretty cheap and I know a lot of people aren't fans. But I keep seeing them pop up for what seems to be a lot of money. As in $1200 on gunbroker (new in box)!! Curious what a ballpark fair price is for a used one?
 
Well I bought one and paid to much years ago when I was young. Now if I could unload it for a decent price I would. It's been in a box for the last ten years cause it wasn't worth anything. Now I'm curious if I could recoup some money for a better replacement.
 
Do you have pictures? Box and papers? Condition/completeness is everything. Used ones have sold from $950 to $1,525 over the last 90 days on Gunbroker.
 
This may sound completely silly, and I would absolutely agree, but I don't think that makes it any less true. Not being a video game kind of person, I don't know these things intimately, but there is a game that is (or was?) quite popular called Hitman or something to that effect where the main character carries a pair of them and they are dubbed "Silverballers." I believe there was also a cheap cash-in on the fame with a Hollywood movie based on that video game, though I have no idea how closely the movie follows the game as I've never seen either one, but I do run across the DVD in some used movie places that I've passed through and the full glory of the seven inch Long Slide pistols are front and center on the DVD case. (may also be worth noting here that it is indeed the AMT Hardballer Long Slide that co-stars with Swarzenegger in the original Terminator.)

I do believe these two things have led a fair number of people to chase these guns down and indeed, it has put a price on them that is without a doubt at it's all-time peak, bar none.

I have had my Long Slide since 1989 and if you actually find the people who have or have had these very specific pistols, experience seems to indicate that they were indeed built and shipped out at a seemingly higher echelon of quality than most of the other handguns that AMT shipped around that time. However, like most all of the other AMT products, that quality certainly varied quite a bit. Many folks also had very good experiences with sending the guns back very quickly after finding some issue and getting quality work done and a decent package returned to them.

Not trying to make excuses for what generally and genuinely a very up & down run of products that AMT shipped back in those days, but the actual hands-on experience will show you that these Long Slide pistols were a cut above most of the guns they shipped. That is the truth and it sometimes seems to annoy the folks who owned some AMT in the past and never had a Long Slide and have made it their life's work to throw flaming bags of poo any time the letters "AMT" appear in a discussion forum. ;)
 
I have had an Automag II since the mid 80's and have had very good luck with it. I know of others though who were not as lucky as I.
 
I had an AMT Gov. Model in the '80s. Sloppy action, but reliable. Accuracy was acceptable for HD use, but nothing special. I think I paid $279 new and sold it for about the same. Recently saw one on Armslist for $800.00.
 
I have the original box (ruff) with papers and original clip

The barell has been throated and the feed ramp polished.

Just shot it last weekend and needs cleaned.
 

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It's not a collector but is in good shape and shoots well. It's a Covina model. Which I've always heard was the better of amt.
 

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I'm not sure how gumbroker works since I don't have a ffl. I'd have to talk to a lgs about selling it.
 
It's not a collector but is in good shape and shoots well. It's a Covina model. Which I've always heard was the better of amt.
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I have heard long ago that the Covina 1911's were made from softer stainless steel than the others marked Arcadia and Irwindale (IAI).

Never owned an AMT Longslide (shot one many times that belonged to a friend in the mid-90's and don't know if it was a Covina or not: it shot and ran well) but I have owned a Covina Hardballer (ser B260xx) since circa 1992. Bought it outside a gun show in Alaska from a guy who was a security officer of some type. Paid about $150 for it with Pachmayr Sig grips and 2 factory mags. After the gun and money changed hands, he told me it was a "dangerous" gun.

He was correct about that pistol. When cocked and locked, a press of the trigger dropped the thumb safety AND the hammer! Completely disassembled the gun and, after much puzzlement, found that the sear pin was bent. :eek: I am thinking very soft steel here.

Replaced the sear pin, hammer pin, extended thumb safety, hammer strut, extractor, and firing pin with blued carbon steel components. Also throated the barrel (thanks to Jerry Kuhnhausen) to make it run with even the old Speer 200 gr. JHP Flying Ashtray reloads.

It is and has been my truck gun and HD pistol since then and runs well, but after 20+ years of use it's not very pretty any more.

Yeah, I know it's not the factory gun it once was, just better.
 
I have a AMT very long slide...great pistol. Even a AMT 22 Mag Automag II ..both shoot flawlessly. But if you want to believe everything on the internet so be it. Why is it they are they selling for so much?
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Not sure either but above post seems plausible. I've never had problems with mine. Always cycles good, shoots all of my reloads, and is accurate enough. But if I can get a good amount for it, I'll step up to something different.
 
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