Bevr wrote:
Somebody probably Walt will come on here and say I'm bashing cz again but it was our experience that the 97b did not like hollow points too much at all and totally hated winchester silvertips which it would fail to feed about 25% or the time or better.
Nope.
Some (but not all) 97Bs have had problems with hollow-points. Its
generally remedied by polishing the feed ramp --
but not always. CZ owners in the U.S. (about the only place where HPs are routinely available) shouldn't have to deal with this issue, but do -- and most of them resolve it.
Several members on the CZ Forum sent their guns back to CZ, where they recontoured the feed ramp. Other members have done it themselves.
Still other members feel that part of the problem may be mag-related, as the mag sets lower in the grip than is optimal. Some of these folks have modified the mag catch to make the mag set higher, and claim feeding improvements, as a result. (Most who made these changes originally did so to get rid of what they felt was an unattractive gap between the base of the grip and the mag base.) I don't know whether the mag release fix is really a fix; its not a simple one. I do think we'll see some after-market mag releases in the future, for both functional and cosmetic reasons.
I had a 97B, but never tried HPs in it-- as I found the grip too big for me. I traded it away. Mine was very accurate and had a pretty good trigger, out of the box.
The 97B may be the most accurate of the CZs, in the lower price ranges. The pricier IPSC guns are a whole different story - but they cost a lot more being, in effect, hand-fit semi-custom guns.
