MTMilitiaman
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I did it. I drank the Kool Aid. I pulled the trigger on a CZ SP-01. First I was pleasantly surprised how easy it was to find. I simply called the nearest FFL, the Columbia Falls Murdoch's, and asked them to order it. He said he would look around and see if he could find it. I wasn't expecting anything from him for a couple days but he called me back within the hour and said he found one at a Murdoch's in Butte, if I wanted it, it was mine. I told him to have it sent and put half down on a gift card over the phone, and again settled in for what I was sure was going to be a few days of waiting. Then I got a call the next afternoon. I hurried down, got to the phone call, and was here finally obliged to wait. The instant background check took half an hour, but aided by the fact I recently passed an ITAR background check as part of my job, it went through without issue. A couple different guys came and went as I waited, grumbling about the hours or even days they had waited for their checks, and were told to remain patient, because 14 million NICS checks had been ran in the previous 60 days. Once I got home with my new pistol, I was dismayed to find how meager my on board supply of 9mm was, and kind of panicked when I realized how impossible it was going to be to replace in today's market. Nevertheless, I sought out the Cajun Gunworks parts I knew I wanted and some more 18 round magazines, some Lok full checked grips, an OLight PL2 1500 lumen rechargeable white light, and a Legacy Arms OWB lightbearing holster. The pistol is a beast, a 40 oz fist full of steel, that somehow molds into your hand and becomes an extension of your body. As one accustomed to shooting Glocks, I was not used to this. The heft was unnerving to me at first, but I reminded myself that until relatively recently, that is just how handguns were. It isn't plastic, and it isn't a Glock, but that is why I had bought it. For the better part of a decade, all I have owned and most of what I have shot has been my Glock 20. The ergonomics, weight, and soon to be wonderful single-action only trigger of the CZ was seemingly diametrically opposed to the hollow plastic 2x4 feel, the square wiffle-ball bat that is the Glock. Don't get me wrong. I still love my Glock. I am not a Glock basher by any means. Just every once in a while, I want something else, something different, something...CZ.
I've only ran a few mags of mostly powder coated cast handloads through it, and haven't done any real drills with it, but it has ran 100% and I am just still amazed how good it feels in the hand and how well it shoots. It points so well I barely need the excellent three dot Meprolight night sights it came with. I kept the firing pin safety and even installed a heavy lifter spring, which minimizes the benefit I get some the SRS-1 short reset kit, but gives me a safe, responsible 4.5-ish pound SAO pull that is consistent and manageable. With all that weight and low bore axis, it is as flat and level shooting a pistol as I have ever shot. Initial impressions are favorable.
I've only ran a few mags of mostly powder coated cast handloads through it, and haven't done any real drills with it, but it has ran 100% and I am just still amazed how good it feels in the hand and how well it shoots. It points so well I barely need the excellent three dot Meprolight night sights it came with. I kept the firing pin safety and even installed a heavy lifter spring, which minimizes the benefit I get some the SRS-1 short reset kit, but gives me a safe, responsible 4.5-ish pound SAO pull that is consistent and manageable. With all that weight and low bore axis, it is as flat and level shooting a pistol as I have ever shot. Initial impressions are favorable.