WOW that's a bad deal. Sorry to hear about your experience with them. I guess maybe I got lucky. And like I posted above, was one of the first ones, way back in late 90's if I remember correctlyMy opinion:
I belong to a club and we have our own range, hence we have a modest benchrest group of fellas. Several of these men have Volquartsen rifles (myself included). Every single guy that owns one has had to return them to the manufacturer for a variety of reasons. some....several times!! I have never seen one shoot with the accuracy they claim. They claim .50 but the best ANY of us has been able to acheive is 1.350. They even send targets back from customer service trying to convince you of their accuracy, which none of us has been able to reproduce even with the best bench rests and an indoor 100 yard range (no wind). We had a match recently and a standard off the rack bolt action kicked all our butts. I sent my Fusion back to Volquartsen a couple of months ago because of a feeding issue that resulted in bullets being pushed back in the cases and stovepipes. This problem actually ruined one of the two barrels that i have for the gun, bulge midway down the barrel that was most likely caused by a piece of brass that came out of a cartridge neck. They sent it back to me saying "there is nothing wrong but we changed the extractor" and added that they would be happy to sell me a new barrell. Upon receiving my gun I returned to the range with three different brands of ammo and the problems still exist. Granted, .17 cal rimfire ammo was never intended to be benchrest accurate, but for the high end cost of these guns one would expect more reliability and better accuracy. If they would just try and live up to their self professed reputation, I would not be writing this. I will be selling it and replacing it with a good quality bolt action.
Yeah!!! Especially when I talked to them at the Shot Show as a buyer.