CZ SA straight blade trigger

[JDGray]

Those of you that have changed your SA CZ trigger to this design, was it worth the effort? How do you like it?
http://czcustom.com/testproduct-132.aspx

 

[huntershooter]

I like it. Mine came with the trigger, I didn't install it.
I shoot "short trigger" in 1911's and tend to place my finger to the bottom of the trigger.
Obviously with a radiused trigger, unless your finger is in the dead middle, the reach is longer.
I have replaced the standard trigger with Garthwaite triggers, which are close to flat, in all of my P-35's/BHP's because of this.

 

[railroader]

I like the straight trigger. Also if you have a gun without the firing pin block you can basically adjust all the pre travel and over travel out of the pull with this trigger. Works great for a short pull and reset set up like this.

These are my guns.

 

[Walt Sherrill]

It's worth it. It allows you to adjust take up to practically zilch, and overtravel, too -- even in a gun withe firing pin block still installed. (It can be made better if the FPB is removed...)

I've used it on two SA CZs.

For those unfamiliar with the trigger or CZ functionality -- the only negative is that this trigger can't be used in a DA/SA gun, as the trigger doesn't allow DA function -- which is probably why the CZ Custom says it can't be used in a decocker model. You must start from cocked and locked, and decocker models don't allow that. So the change is only appropriate with a gun that is committed to SA only.

 

[Otto]

Stock triggers are steel.
Flat triggers are aluminum.

As stated, flat triggers are for Single Action Only. If your gun isn't a SAO, you'll have to convert it.
Flat triggers do not reduce the trigger pull....that requires reworking or replacing the hammer and sear. Many shooters remove the firing pin block as well.

Is it worth it? Depends on who does the work. If you're handy, you can do it yourself but you'll need the appropriate punches and hammer.
I've done it myself but wouldn't do it again. Waaaay easier to send the gun off to Cajun Gun Works.

 

[viking499]

For those unfamiliar with the trigger or CZ functionality -- the only negative is that this trigger can't be used in a DA/SA gun, as the trigger doesn't allow DA function -- which is probably why the CZ Custom says it can't be used in a decocker model. You must start from cocked and locked, and decocker models don't allow that. So the change is only appropriate with a gun that is committed to SA only.

This trigger can be used on a SA/DA gun. It just does away with the DA use of the gun. Take the factory trigger out, install the SA trigger, you have a SA only gun. Reverse the procedure, you have the original factory DA/SA gun. Easy as a trigger swap. But that will only work on the safety model guns. The e cocker triggers are different.

 

[JDGray]

Thanks for all the replies, looks like everyone likes the design. Its going in my 75B SA, and I already removed the FPB parts long ago. Does the CZ Custom shop trigger come with the allen to adjust it, like the CGW trigger does? Mine has the plastic trigger, and I'm waiting for the day it breaks off, but realize it probably would have by now if it were going to...

 

[Walt Sherrill]

This trigger can be used on a SA/DA gun. It just does away with the DA use of the gun. Take the factory trigger out, install the SA trigger, you have a SA only gun. Reverse the procedure, you have the original factory DA/SA gun. Easy as a trigger swap. But that will only work on the safety model guns. The e cocker triggers are different.

That may NOT have been what you read, but that WAS what certainly I meant when I said the trigger doesn't allow DA function.

The triggers on the decocker guns really aren't any different -- but there's simply no way to properly handle and carry the decocker guns with the SA trigger installed -- unless you carry hammer down and thumb cock it with the first shot and manually decock with the last. With a SA trigger installed a decocker model has no safety and no DA function. (That was the gist of my earlier message -- guess I was unintentionally being subtle.)

The only big difference between the decocker guns and the DA/SA guns is that there's an extra mechanism in the decocker versions, and one of the hammer hooks is removed in those models to make room for that mechanism. Otherwise, they're the same. The SA version doesn't have a disconnector -- so it's the simplest of the three. The decocker models all start from the half-cock notch, of course, while the safety-equipped models have the option of hammer down, half-cock, or cocked and locked.

 

[chris in va]

I converted my 97b to SAO using the aluminum trigger used on the 75SA. While it does allow for pre and post travel adjustment, it is still too far forward to my liking. I have a friend that uses the flat trigger. I find it sits further back against the frame and is more vertical, simulating a 1911 trigger.

I would probably go that route, now that I've used the SA version.

 

[railroader]

Thanks for all the replies, looks like everyone likes the design. Its going in my 75B SA, and I already removed the FPB parts long ago. Does the CZ Custom shop trigger come with the allen to adjust it, like the CGW trigger does? Mine has the plastic trigger, and I'm waiting for the day it breaks off, but realize it probably would have by now if it were going to...

Go for the straight trigger then. You already have the short reset. With the new trigger you'll have the the short pre travel too.

 

[viking499]

THat may NOT have been what your read, but that WAS what certainly I meant when I said the trigger doesn't allow DA function.

That is the same thing my wife tells me all the time..........

 

[JDGray]

I received my order from CZ Custom Shop, and put it all together with the new trigger. I like it! The new design trigger pin needed some fitting, so if you decide to change yours out to the "no stake" type pin, do yourself a favor and pre fit it without the trigger assembly. I had to do some polishing on the stepped up portion of the pin, in order to install it without "excessive force", in my opinion. I like the adjustments on the new trigger, but it should have sold with the hex wrench to adjust it.