Here's what I think...

After years of being in the same elk and deer hunting camps, and sitting around the same campfires, and hearing all the stories about Detonics guns, I'd say this...

The head gunsmith/production engineer guy (Peter Dunn) is the one who determined what kind of parts, metalurgies, hardnesses, measurements, etc, that went into the Detonics USA guns. It's my understanding that he adjusted the dimensions, tollerances, and sometimes made entirely new drawings of parts in order to get what he wanted. His experience, gained from smithing over 2,000 Combat Masters at the original shop in Seattle, (not to mention Scoremasters and Servicemasters; and thousands of other 1911 variants as well), is what served to make that 9-11-01 the gun that it is. He also improved the CombatMasters to the point where the guy who finalized the design, Sid Woodcock, now says that it's more Peter's gun than his. (I'd like to know what Pat Yates, the man who conceived the design, thinks of it now).

So what I think is this... Where ever he pops up next; be it at another "Detonics" incarnation, or some other gun company by any other name... that's where some good guns are gonna be made!

Meanwhile, the Georgia CombatMasters are going to become collectors items, since it's likely that less than a thousand of them were ever shipped. I own CM's from both Seattle and Georgia and the Georgia versions are superior. The Seattle guns are good, but the Georgia models I've got have the Seattle models beat, hands down.

Those are my thoughts. Hope they help, ...Deeton