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    Hudson Mfg - Bankruptcy

    Looks like the filed for Chapter 7 on March 14th.

    I have one of their H9's. Enjoy shooting it. I think it was the top of line model and they intended to come out with a more economical model later on. I guess it didn't have enough appeal to catch on. Too bad. They seemed to be decent folks. Although people with broken H9's sent for repairs and not returned would surely disagree.

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    And, unfortunately, there seem to have been a rather large number of those broken H9s that are currently languishing in limbo. From what I've read, the company is not answering the phone or responding to e-mails.

    Hudson has a large lawsuit pending against a company that did much of their machining for them, and that company is countersuing. On other forums, people who seem to be Hudson apologists are automatically blaming the machine shop contractor. Before we go down that road, I'll just mention that when Sig Arms first came out with their Granite State Rail 1911 pistols, they had the slides and receivers made for them by Caspian Arms. Caspian was not new to making 1911s -- they were 9and are) a preferred supplier of slide and frames for custom gunsmiths. Nevertheless, Sig blamed Caspian for all the problems, and cancelled the contract.

    However, when Sig came out with their second generation of 1911s, the problems persisted even though Caspian wasn't involved. Meanwhile, Caspian was selling off the Sig slides and frames as sets to do-it-yourselfers, and I haven't heard a single complaint from anyone who bought one of those sets about it being out of spec.

    So the fact that Hudson subcontracted their machining and then had quality problems does not automatically mean that the subcontractor was at fault. They might be -- or they might not be -- or (perhaps more likely) there may be enough blame to spread around. The truth may (or may not) come out of the lawsuit.
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