I joined the cult of CZ...

Status
Not open for further replies.

MTMilitiaman

Member
Joined
Apr 28, 2005
Messages
3,215
Location
Columbia Falls, Montana
I did it. I drank the Kool Aid. I pulled the trigger on a CZ SP-01. First I was pleasantly surprised how easy it was to find. I simply called the nearest FFL, the Columbia Falls Murdoch's, and asked them to order it. He said he would look around and see if he could find it. I wasn't expecting anything from him for a couple days but he called me back within the hour and said he found one at a Murdoch's in Butte, if I wanted it, it was mine. I told him to have it sent and put half down on a gift card over the phone, and again settled in for what I was sure was going to be a few days of waiting. Then I got a call the next afternoon. I hurried down, got to the phone call, and was here finally obliged to wait. The instant background check took half an hour, but aided by the fact I recently passed an ITAR background check as part of my job, it went through without issue. A couple different guys came and went as I waited, grumbling about the hours or even days they had waited for their checks, and were told to remain patient, because 14 million NICS checks had been ran in the previous 60 days. Once I got home with my new pistol, I was dismayed to find how meager my on board supply of 9mm was, and kind of panicked when I realized how impossible it was going to be to replace in today's market. Nevertheless, I sought out the Cajun Gunworks parts I knew I wanted and some more 18 round magazines, some Lok full checked grips, an OLight PL2 1500 lumen rechargeable white light, and a Legacy Arms OWB lightbearing holster. The pistol is a beast, a 40 oz fist full of steel, that somehow molds into your hand and becomes an extension of your body. As one accustomed to shooting Glocks, I was not used to this. The heft was unnerving to me at first, but I reminded myself that until relatively recently, that is just how handguns were. It isn't plastic, and it isn't a Glock, but that is why I had bought it. For the better part of a decade, all I have owned and most of what I have shot has been my Glock 20. The ergonomics, weight, and soon to be wonderful single-action only trigger of the CZ was seemingly diametrically opposed to the hollow plastic 2x4 feel, the square wiffle-ball bat that is the Glock. Don't get me wrong. I still love my Glock. I am not a Glock basher by any means. Just every once in a while, I want something else, something different, something...CZ.
I've only ran a few mags of mostly powder coated cast handloads through it, and haven't done any real drills with it, but it has ran 100% and I am just still amazed how good it feels in the hand and how well it shoots. It points so well I barely need the excellent three dot Meprolight night sights it came with. I kept the firing pin safety and even installed a heavy lifter spring, which minimizes the benefit I get some the SRS-1 short reset kit, but gives me a safe, responsible 4.5-ish pound SAO pull that is consistent and manageable. With all that weight and low bore axis, it is as flat and level shooting a pistol as I have ever shot. Initial impressions are favorable.
grslpsT.jpg
 
CZ's are outstanding firearms. Built to old world standards. I've owned 5 CZ's over the last 10 years. probably over 10,000 rds fired through them collectively. I have never ever had a single failure of any kind. Truly amazing firearms
 
My CZ PCR’s design impressed me so much that after a good bit of reading, I bought the —milled—VZ-58 rifle by Czechpoint about a year ago. And no front sight cant, none at all.
1,200 total rds., perfect operation with this ...striker action...

Czech, Czechmate.
 
Last edited:
One of us... One of us... One of us...

I've got a P01 and a 75B SA and would love to add a SP01.

Let me know what you think of that Olight, I've been eyeing them recently.
 
I own a 75B and a Target ll; fits my hand and shoots smooth as “butta” I tell you - very accurate and very well engineered. Great handguns!
 
Last edited:
Spats
:
To borrow freely from the Bard: A rose by any other name should smell so sweet. A CZ by another name should shoot so good!

The P01 and the CZ 75 D Compact are one and the same gun.

I later found out the CZ 75 D Compact designation was for guns for the European market. But if they would have received an order from CZ USA for some P01s and didn't have enough with the P01 slide marking, they would have sent the CZ 75 D Compact instead.
 
Ah.... A convert. Welcome to the assembly.

If you haven't found it already, head over to the Brian Enos forum for some really good CZ tuning threads. I don't think you need to register to see the threads.
 
My 2 PCRs say CZ 75 D compact. There is no 75 D compact stand alone gun. You have the 75 compact with safety and steel frame. You have the PCR, a compact with decocker and alloy frame. P01 a compact with alloy frame decocker and rail. CZ also makes a limited run of steel frame P01 with safeties.
 
^^^^ You have a PCR.
The PCR slides are the only slides that have a small recess cut in front of the rear sight. Those wood grips look great!
 
Vitajte, welcome to the family. Be aware of compulsive buy instinct you might at front now and on.
 
ClickClickD'oh
bannockburn said:
The P01 and the CZ 75 D Compact are one and the same gun.​
Unless it's a PCR.

Yes then it's a PCR but you don't have the full length frame and light rail. According to CZ USA the initials PCR stands for Police Czech Republic while the P01/CZ 75 D Compact should really be called the CNP model for being adopted by the Czech National Police. No matter what they're called, they're all great compact pistols!
 
I won a CZ 2075 RAMI subcompact in a raffle years ago. I foolishly swapped it for another gun. Regretted it.

I found another in a pawnshop about a month ago. Bought it, and a DeSantis holster. I have run about 50 rounds through it as familiarization. I would gladly shoot more, but 9mm is s bit scarce. I know, 50 rounds is not enough. But for some folks 20,000 rounds would not be enough. The bullets go where I point the gun. I’m confident carrying it. (It’s not my first carry gun)

I will be keeping this one.
 
Status
Not open for further replies.
Back
Top