CZ 75 Design Flaw?

[wilkersk]

I've said this on another thread. But, My CZ 75B was very finicky for about the first 1,000 rounds. It wouldn't feed Speer Gold Dot at all. I had occasional FTEs of various other factory loads.

But, I have not had ANY malfunctions in a while now. I use this pistol for IPSC Production Division competition. Its dusty, sandy, or muddy, sometimes in the same match. My CZ is a tack driver. It beats the pants off my XDM 9, much to my dissapointment!

A few people I've talked to recently swear by putting "grease on the slide rails. This seems to me one possible way of getting excess grease to gunk up the extractor. I've never put grease on the rails of an auto pistol.

I've always just rubbed a light coat of machine oil on the mating surfaces and a drop or 2 in the usual spots for springs, then wipe everything down with a well seasoned gun cloth.

I've got a '64 Army National Match 1911 thats been cared for this way for 45 years now. Its still a very tight little pistol.

 

[chriske]

I never encountered that problem with my CZ mod 75-B. Admittedly, I seldom shoot more than 200 rounds per one range session, let alone 300.

 

[tipoc]

rhoggman,

I wasn't criticizing you for resurrecting an old thread per se, just this old thread. See you've come with a particular problem with your gun. That problem is an interesting one and deserves attention on it's own. But you placed it at the end of a thread which was about whether there is a design flaw in the extractor of the CZ75. So folks will read over a couple of pages about that, and maybe comment on that based on the title of the thread and it's major content, and your particular question may be overlooked. So I was suggesting that because your problem is interesting that it deserved a separate thread rather than be tacked on the end of an old thread on another subject. That's all.

The 50 round boxes of WWB is pretty good stuff. The bulk ammo packs are sometime questionable.

A stronger recoil spring is useful when a fellas firing +P or +P+ ammo but a stronger spring can cause problems in some guns when shooting standard velocity ammo. This could be part of the problem. It could also be the extractor. Could be a mag problem.

So ammo, spring, extractor and last the mag. Isolate the problem.

You can also call CZ their service dept is quite helpful.

tipoc

 

[gopguy]

Hardly a flawed gun the CZ-75 has an excellent track record world wide. THR's own Stephen Camp has written a wonderful piece on this classic pistol.

http://www.hipowersandhandguns.com/CZ75.htm

Keep her clean, if it continues to have problems send her back to the good folks at CZ USA for a look. Occasionally a imperfect gun gets through. I have a CZ75B that had problems with the magazine catch and they fixed it to my satisfaction. 1000 rounds later no problems.

 

[V45C]

this is more than a 'minor' problem , in fact , its becoming very common ...
my new 75B 40 did this from the first box of ammo thru it and was immediatly disposed of...
had i done a search on the CZ board i would never have bought it...
13 flawless cz's , then i got that pos, never again...

 

[tipoc]

this is more than a 'minor' problem , in fact , its becoming very common ...
my new 75B 40 did this from the first box of ammo thru it and was immediatly disposed of...
had i done a search on the CZ board i would never have bought it...
13 flawless cz's , then i got that pos, never again...

Hmm. This deserves close reading and some thought.

A shooter owns or has owned 13 CZs over a span of time and all ran flawlessly. A record any manufacturer would be proud of. Then the shooter buys his 14th one and that hiccups some. Now rather than find the problem and repair it, or return it to CZ for repair, he disposes of the gun (passing the problem on to another shooter maybe). He then swears off all future CZs.

Worth some thought.

tipoc