Fusion Firearms

A check of the archives indicates hit-and-miss regarding the quality of Fusion 1911s. Does anyone have any recent experience with them? I'm looking for a basic government model to build a fixed-sight 1911 for Bullseye using an Aristocrat rib that I have on hand. It's not my top priority by any means, but Fusion is located about ten minutes from me here in Venice, FL. I'm not interested in building a gun from the ground up. I want to start with a finished, functioning pistol, add the rib, and then replace smaller parts as needed.

They are nice I believe the owner used to be the production manager at Dan Wesson.

Your timing is perfect. I took my new fusion Ultra match barrel to the range yesterday and had multiple problems. Failure to feed, failure to eject and failure to hit squat. The first two I can polish and grind to submission. Still thinking about last problem. I put a new dot and barrel on at same time. Urgh.

A Springfield Mil-Spec would fit the bill.

The term "match" is thrown around way too much.. if there is no fitting required then good luck

Outthere wrote:A Springfield Mil-Spec would fit the bill.

I've heard and read good things about them. It's probably going to come down to a choice between that one and the Fusion. And as tempting as it is to lean towards Fusion because of their nearby location, I need to keep in mind that a gun made 1000 miles away, and done right, wouldn't have to go back in the first place.