The Lone Haranguer
November 25, 2007, 08:28 AM
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It followed me home on the 21st and I got in some happy time with it yesterday evening. :)
Highs: reliability, short and smooth DA pull, sight picture, hand fit, ergonomic controls (if you are right handed), size, light weight, high capacity, appearance, overall workmanship.
Lows: "creepy" SA pull, extended lip of flat based steel magazine floorplate gouges little finger in longer fire strings, short slide a little difficult to grasp for quick racking.
It blew through 100 rounds of MagTech FMJ and a small quantity (a 20-round box) of Federal 9BPs without a single malfunction, right from round one. I will be getting in some more time later with more hollowpoints, which I consider essential for defense, especially in the 9mm. Many CZ models have a DA trigger reach that is too long for me, but when this gun is ready for use (hammer decocked with the lever), the hammer sits at approximately a "quarter cock" position, shortening the reach and the length of the stroke by that amount. Its grip is also well shaped, making this gun fit my hand as well as any double-stack/double-action pistol is likely to get. The sight picture is a conventional three-dot, but the dots are a sort of lime green rather than white. I found the color easier to pick up under the indoor range lighting than white dots. Overall fit and finish is very good, with a tight barrel lockup, good slide/frame fit and a well-applied finish. The interior surfaces are only polished where they need to be, but there are no chatter marks from rough machining or anything of that sort.
The rather creepy (but light release) SA trigger made it a little difficult to shoot really tight groups from a two-handed unsupported position, but enough holes clustered together that I think it is perfectly capable of good mechanical accuracy. It handled beautifully in close rapid fire.
As mentioned, the magazine floorplate is a bit of a finger gouger. With strings of fire of more than about five rounds it will bite. A person with large meat hooks or bear paws for hands will probably not like this gun, but there are other choices. These are not the mags shown in the picture that have a less protruding, plastic- or rubber-covered floorplate. I will try to locate a couple of those. Any carry/heavily used gun should have a minimum of four magazines anyway, IMO. When a gun functions perfectly right from the get-go, I can forgive minor shortcomings. I paid literally twice as much for a gun that malfunctioned on the second shot I ever fired through it. :rolleyes:
If you have difficulty finding an "off-the-rack" holster for it, it fits pretty well into one made for the SIG P228/P229, provided it is leather with some "give" to it and not closely fitted plastic. The two guns are virtually identical in size.
Overall I am very pleased with this gun. :cool:
http://www.cz-usa.com/data/productimg/main037.png
http://www.cz-usa.com/data/productimg/main037.png
It followed me home on the 21st and I got in some happy time with it yesterday evening. :)
Highs: reliability, short and smooth DA pull, sight picture, hand fit, ergonomic controls (if you are right handed), size, light weight, high capacity, appearance, overall workmanship.
Lows: "creepy" SA pull, extended lip of flat based steel magazine floorplate gouges little finger in longer fire strings, short slide a little difficult to grasp for quick racking.
It blew through 100 rounds of MagTech FMJ and a small quantity (a 20-round box) of Federal 9BPs without a single malfunction, right from round one. I will be getting in some more time later with more hollowpoints, which I consider essential for defense, especially in the 9mm. Many CZ models have a DA trigger reach that is too long for me, but when this gun is ready for use (hammer decocked with the lever), the hammer sits at approximately a "quarter cock" position, shortening the reach and the length of the stroke by that amount. Its grip is also well shaped, making this gun fit my hand as well as any double-stack/double-action pistol is likely to get. The sight picture is a conventional three-dot, but the dots are a sort of lime green rather than white. I found the color easier to pick up under the indoor range lighting than white dots. Overall fit and finish is very good, with a tight barrel lockup, good slide/frame fit and a well-applied finish. The interior surfaces are only polished where they need to be, but there are no chatter marks from rough machining or anything of that sort.
The rather creepy (but light release) SA trigger made it a little difficult to shoot really tight groups from a two-handed unsupported position, but enough holes clustered together that I think it is perfectly capable of good mechanical accuracy. It handled beautifully in close rapid fire.
As mentioned, the magazine floorplate is a bit of a finger gouger. With strings of fire of more than about five rounds it will bite. A person with large meat hooks or bear paws for hands will probably not like this gun, but there are other choices. These are not the mags shown in the picture that have a less protruding, plastic- or rubber-covered floorplate. I will try to locate a couple of those. Any carry/heavily used gun should have a minimum of four magazines anyway, IMO. When a gun functions perfectly right from the get-go, I can forgive minor shortcomings. I paid literally twice as much for a gun that malfunctioned on the second shot I ever fired through it. :rolleyes:
If you have difficulty finding an "off-the-rack" holster for it, it fits pretty well into one made for the SIG P228/P229, provided it is leather with some "give" to it and not closely fitted plastic. The two guns are virtually identical in size.
Overall I am very pleased with this gun. :cool:
