You are looking for Brian Maynard, sirsaka is his name on the board here.

 

Hope he'll drop in as it was his "baby". 

 

I don't own a BAM, my wife does.  One time someone looked at her funny when see said "I can't wait to shoot my baby this weekend".  Then she had to explain it was what she called here pistol as it was a 22 instead of a 44.  She has since been careful about using those words........

 

It looks like a nice copy.  Millet rear sight and all.  Someone obviously had access to the right equipment, because it would have been cheaper to pay $1000 for one than to have one made from a Ruger.

 

JW

Same sights, scallops, etc.  I painted the frame park gray with ALumahyde (mine was in bad shape compared to yours).

 

I should put a cheap red dot on it, but if I remember it shoots really well, probably due to the sight radius almost as long as a factory 10/22....

 

Jason

 

 

It looks like someone knew what they were doing when they made this barrel. I do not believe it is factory but sometimes things did get done there and not published. My instinct is that it was done by someone who is a qualified machinist who enjoys gun work and knows how to copy something very well. He done di a good job from your pic. I know you can't publish the sn but I'd be curious as to what it is. Good job though and a great find.  

That BBL crown indent looks like a dead ringer for the first ones made by Brian, as the production ones are not that deep. They did away with a few things for the price to stay reasonable to sell them. According to the article I read it said a few things about the first ones made, Harry Sanford got XP001 and Brian got the second one XP002. hope Brian can confirm this.

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You mention thinking of making up some BBL/Receivers and all that Ruger issue and others mention the Tactical Solutions Pac-Lite BBL/Receiver not having this issue(at least not in public view). Lets just say it's now ok to do(your letter is dated '96, maybe some things have changed since), I would think making a whole items would be a better idea then just the BBL/receiver as putting your BBL/Receiver on a RUGER frame just wouldn't do it justice! I love Ruger BUT this thing about rights is not even close to the people who know Firearms. It's like saying dodge and chev copied ford cause they all have 4 wheels.

Now what about the xp 3 digit firearms?

 

What about making another complete set of BAM's, like it was said here, why would "Tactical Solutions" make pac-lite bbl/receivers and not have issues or they solved them somehow. Let us know about this cause I'm sure you can sell 500-1000 limited sets, depending on price. 

I know some will buy them knowing you would make it a limited set but don't think it would hold up as a full blown production item as I'm sure the costs would make others buy cheaper production shooters but NOT us am'ers!

I know I would buy a Full Blown Baby Automag, Made like the prototypes with all the bells and whistles. Most people don't know the difference between them. Got any pics you can post of?

Thanks very much for your time and history of this item.

 

Funding would be a key factor in getting something like this up and running, even though it is considered small scale. There is so much in tooling up and in producing all the parts. There is some metal stamping and assembly that would take alot of up-front money in order to accomplish.

 

Evem if I get a good report from Tactical, as much as I would love to make more "Baby's", there is a bit of a reality check here for me.  One option that I could consider is buying the components from Tactical, if they would go for such a thing. Mod the frames and bolts as I did @ AMT for the XP's and make the barrels from scratch. Just a thought as I'm typing and waking up this morning.

 

As far as the original XP's are concerned, there were a couple of three digit serial numbers as my memory recalls. A little tidbit of info here if you bear with me. When I asked Larry to engrave the serial numbers, I stated I wanted "XP01", etc. A few management personnel had their own specific (same) number that they used on every gun they received from AMT. Although it would be inappropriate to go into which numbers they were, I can tell you that a couple were two digits. So...long story even longer, because Larry thought I wanted "XP0" for every gun, three digits were used for thes two digit numbers (XP0xx, etc).  I wanted only two digits on all XP's but a miscommunication on my part gave us a couple of three digit serial numbers. Confusing? Sorry if so. But it is history and I thought I'd set the record straight, since you asked.