Galena's assets were purchased by High Standard Firearms, Houston Tx in 2002. Galena moved there factory to South Dakota but filled for bankruptcy in 2001. This constant contact led to many broken firing pins. This designed was flawed as the safety block had a propensity to contact, sometimes intercept, the firing pin after being struck by the hammer. Galena designed and incorporated a firing pin safety block. Shortly thereafter, Galena made a few design and cosmetic changes to the AMT Back Up.
took over AMT's operation in Irwindale, CA when they filled for bankruptcy in late 1995. It appears that these Pieces just needed a little TLC before they left the Factory. It's a 15 minute job that was grossly neglected at the factory. I was lucky to find a tutorial specific to the Back Up 45, on how to git'r done. What I've learned is that te proper way to achieve a lighter trigger pull on the Back Up is by polishing specific areas within the trigger mechanism and frame.
After that, the Back Up was pretty much rendered completely useless, unless of course, the mainspring was replaced. This led to FTF, FTE and light primer strike issues. Many owners were cutting the mainspring to lower the factory trigger pull, but in doing so, it would compromise the Slide action and timing.
I even found information on how to reduce the infamous 17Lb factory trigger pull down to 10-12 lbs without having to cut the mainspring. Another solution is to polish specific areas on the frame rails and the barrel feed ramp. Apparently FTF issues can be usually traced back to magazines that needed a little lip or follower tweaking. Most of the reported reliability issues dealt with FTF and FTE along with reports of light primer strikes, and broken firing pins.īut along with all the negative reports I also located a good number of positive reports and information posted by many owners that documented how easy it was/is to solve these issues. It appears that QC really suffered at the AMT factory which led to the issues that plagued these Pieces. I purchased the Piece after doing a lot of research and Even after reading all the horror stories regarding reliability issues. 45 last week and I brought it home yesterday.
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