CZ75B...good to go with 147 grain?

[Tenguns]

I've always used 115 or 124 grain with my Nines, but yesterday ordered a bunch of 147 to experiment with. I did a little searching to see how other people liked 147 in the respective guns I shoot: Sig P226, Walther PPQ, and CZ75B. The Sig and the Walther appear to happily gobble the heavier bullets, but I did see some sporadic commentary about the CZ75B apparently having a shorter OCL and therefore having some trouble with 147 grain. I'll test my own in a week or so, but I'm just curious how much of an issue (or hopefully non-issue) this is. How well does 147 grain ammo function in your CZ75B?

 

[tipoc]

I've never had a problem nor heard of one. But then right now I only have an older CZ75.

You have the gun, so go shoot some and tell us.

Go shoot and report. You can spend time here reading or time at the range shooting.

tipoc

 

[Walt Sherrill]

Never heard of problems specific to 147 gr. rounds. They were hard to find in this area, so I may not have given them a good chance.

 

[CNobbe]

Never had an issue with 147 in any of my CZs.

 

[JDR]

I can highly recommend subsonic 9mm 147 gr. FMJ Winchester "T" (Train) or Fed American Eagle ammo with a CZ 75B, mine shoots this very accurately and the recoil is noticeably softer than with 115 or 124 gr. ammo. Give it a try!

 

[chris in va]

You may have read about OAL issues with cast bullets, depending on the mold. I haven't heard anything about jacketed bullets.

 

[roval]

I shoot xtreme 147 gr and in the past ranier 147 bullets in all my 9mms including a cz 75b, cz 75pcr(compact) and a cz 85 combat. only had 1 or 2 bullets out of more than 2000+ that would prevent the gun from going into battery. can't remember if it was my xdm that wouldn't do it and then did well on the cz or if it was the other way around but I think it was more case related than being bullet related.

 

[Wil Terry]

What I do NOT understand is why anyone wants to shoot a 9MM-147 load [ subsonic no less...! ] that is nothing but a 38SPL+p load, no where near as effective as the 115gr and 125gr 9MM+P loads.
And furthermore ONLY your gun can tell you what it likes as to it's own diet. TEST!!
And so it goes...

 

[bumbazine]

My 85B has eaten everything I've put in it in the 10+ year I've had it. The only problem I can remember having was with some steel cased ammo that would stick in the chamber after firing.

 

[Kiln]

I've shot everything through mine and no problems.