Too many negative comments about Fusion for me to get one.
You're looking for a Magnum Research pistol. Magnum Research has the same relationship with BUL that the early Springfields had with Imbel. In other words, BUL ships the parts to Minnesota where Magnum Research assembles and tweaks them. MR/BUL makes a solid 1911.
A month ago I worked on one of the Commander size MR 1911s and found nothing "wrong" with it. The trigger pull was actually one of the nicest I've felt on a production pistol. Below is a list of the tweaks I performed to make a good 1911 better. These were all "kitchen table" tweaks that anyone can do with a few manual tools (e.g. files, sandpaper, etc). I don't think I've ever run across a mass produced 1911 that couldn't be improved by simple tweaks such as these.
The barrel lock up was not the best - the lower barrel lugs did not sit on the slide stop and the muzzle was not tight to the slide. So it wasn't exactly a bullseye pistol. It was plenty accurate enough to center punch bad guys at 25 yards. It has a bull barrel which I'm not really fan of and I told the owner that it could easily be replaced with a Kart barrel that would turn it into a tack driver but I advised him to shoot it as-is first since its accuracy may be just fine for his needs and abilities.
The magazines that came with it were fine once I replaced the springs with Tripp springs and bent the front and rear legs of the followers inward a bit. The legs had been making hard contact with the walls of the magazine tube preventing the follower from easily moving upward or downward.
I filed down the locator tab on each magazine baseplate a bit to provide clearance since they were impacting the frame and making seating of the mags inconsistent.
The extractor needed a tension adjustment to cure its erratic ejection pattern. It also had excessive deflection which I fixed.
I reamed the mainspring housing to fix the noisy mainspring issue.
Smoothed and polished the disconnector contact surface on the leaf spring.
Lightly rounded and smoothed the chamber mouth at the ramp/chamber transition.
Cut a notch in the slide stop to allow for easy reassembly and to prevent the "idiot scratch'.
Here are some pics showing a couple of the tweaks.
Fixing the magazine followers
Eliminating the idiot scratch and making reassembly easy
Relieving one side of the mag base plate
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