CZ 75

Enjoy it. They are fun pistols if you like to upgrade every little thing yourself. Detail stripping them is quite the experience and a good way to learn about the innards on this particular platform. Being a striker-fire guy, they have proved to be a difficult pistol for me to shoot well but I can't seem to part with the one I have.

SSN Vet

Though I can see the appeal of the decocker, I think I'll be converting over to the safety.

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That's what I did with my P07. Very quick and easy to do.

SSN Vet said:

Is it really that great?
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Yes.

gifbohane said:

I bought a CZ 75 (9MM) last week mainly because of these kinds of reviews. Went to the range on Friday and had about 5 out of 100 failure to fires on 115 Grain WIn. It seemed to be light strikes and the second attempt detonated the round. Anyone see this or have a remedy? Really like the feel of this 9. Cracks like an AK 47.

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I would first try several different brands of ammo. I've seen cases that were too short, that resulted in the case chambering too deep, thereby causing light primer strikes like you describe. (The 9 MM headspaces on the mouth of the case). What can also cause this is if the ammo has too much taper on the crimp. This can cause the cartridge to seat too deep as well.

Your best bet would be to buy a couple of boxes of good defensive ammunition like Speer Gold Dot's or Federal HST. They are assembled with more quality control than the cheap Ball ammo. They're more expensive. But if they fire without issue, (and I'm betting they will), it will have been worth it to prove your gun is not to blame.

Thanks Bill.

My Remora IWB holster has No clip, or any other attachment to pants or a belt.

My CZ 'PCR', Sig P225 ('87) along with the new Walther P99, are easily carried in this same Remora.
Just keep the belt pretty tight (it's not uncomfy). While these can easily be carried (you can actually run--as inn aerobics--while carrying) in an unusual holster which has No clip, is it so difficult to carry such steel-framed handguns in Crossbreed Kydex etc?

The Remora doesn't "print" the gun nearly as much as my former Crossbreed, which was adjusted for the lowest relative carry position.

I love my CZ-75. I call it my ‘commie 1911’. I saw another user post how his CZ recoils more than his other service 9mms, which I don’t get. Everything about the CZ is designed for low recoil, from the high grip you can get on the gun, all steel frame, or how the slide rides on the inside of the frame on a lower axis. People use them as race guns for a reason.

This is one of two home defense guns I keep hot in my house. I’ve only had a malfunction once when shooting cheap steel cased blazer ammo.

I am fortunate to own a few pistols, but probably not as many of you on this site, but the pistol that I keep in the bedroom for home self defense is a SP-01. A model similar to the 75-B. Good luck.

Jessesky said:

I saw another user post how his CZ recoils more than his other service 9mms, which I don’t get.

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Yeah, I thought that was crazy, too. I suppose if someone gets very used to the feel of a polymer frame flexing during recoil, they might find a rigid-framed gun to be harsh, even if it is objectively moving less and at a lower speed.

Either than, or they don't hold it correctly or it just happens to impinge on some bone or nerve for them.

When I bought the first of my Tanfoglio CZ clones, the recoil spring was beyond weak and I could feel the slide slamming back and really popping the slide stop, so a new spring was ordered and put in. It shot much softer after that. I wonder if that could be why the user who said his CZ has more recoil than his other service guns?
It never had any problems shooting, but from the marks it left on the slide stop, I'm sure it would have broken it pretty quickly. I bought a spare slide stop, and of course, it's gone through a ton of rounds without breaking the original one.

Hemi- Where did you purchase your extra slide stop?