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Originally posted by mike56:
Sent it back and they chopped it for parts. Then they filed. He never got his gun or refund.

Ugh. That sucks.

The video says they shot 1M rounds through it during the development stage.

I love the original, despite its problems. I’ll pick up the DD version also, but I wish the frame was steel.

The Hudson looks better, in my opinion. Love its futuristic appearance….

I thought the original Hudson looked interesting enough to be enticing. But being the first product from a startup with nowhere enough financial and technical resources, the failure of both the H9 and Hudson was pretty much preordained. Cy Hudson ain't John Moses Browning, and even JMB didn't have instant results with his successes. However DD must have seen something intriguing enough about the Hudson's design to warrant spending their own money on the patents and 4 years of their time to bring this to reality.

Sure it's relatively spendy if you're comparing it to an average service level pistol like a M&P9 2.0 or a Walther PDP, but so are many other guns these days. The DD H9's MSRP is actually $100 less than MAP street price of the even spendier P320 AXG Legion...and viewed objectively what's so special about THAT particular SIG, besides maybe the heart-stopping joy of "being in the Legion"?

I hope DD does okay if not very well with this reboot. Presuming the mag cap limits here aren't already overturned, if they make a cap-limited version I'd consider one. I mean after all, I can't think there's any more reason for me to buy yet another Shadow 2. Or some tarted-up P226 "special".

EDIT: Oh, and I also think the original Hudson looks cooler.

Hudson was the pistol version of Excelsior Henderson motorcycles......