I am a custom pistolsmith of 30+ years experience, that while specializing in .45 autos, have had precious few Detonics come my way and therefore have little firsthand knowledge of their background. I am in the process of acquiring as much background information about them as possible and have researched a fair amount of the material available. One of the questions I have concerns early Detonics military contracts. I have seen a blued Detonics that was described as being a U.S. Air Force contract firearm, but there were no distinctive markings to support that claim, nor can I find any reference to such contract pieces. Does anyone know that portion of their history, who might be an appropriate person to contact in that regard, or that can share any information regarding specific serial number sequencing or markings? Thanks!

Doug