Hello. I share your enthusiasm for the CZ pistols (and rifles) and have heard from several long-term users both in the US and particularly overseas that the guns are durable and accurate as well as reliable. (Most of the foreign users are restricted pretty much to ball so I wasn't surprised.) In my own experience, the CZ-75
is reliable with about every JHP round, factory or handloaded, that I've fed the examples I have.
Slide-to-frame fit is generally tighter on the CZ-75B guns in my limited experiences with them, but
both have very tight barrel-to-slide fit so unless shooting from a machine rest, I find no differences in being able to hit the target.
By necessity the CZ-75 and its ilk are more internally complex than the single-action Hi Power, but the design seems to work well. Cases are very well supported and I've had precisely zero problems with some rather warm handloads as well as +P and +P+ factory ammo that the guns have shot without hesitation.
I, too, prefer the rounded trigger guard, but that's subjective and I'm well-satisfied that other folks feel just the opposite.
Two interesting tidbits concerning the CZ-75's I've owned.
First, the factory recoil spring feels light to me and is rated at 14-lbs. A while back, several complaints from CZ-75B shooters concerned breaking of the slide stop. Mike Eagleshield, gunsmith at CZ-USA, advised that the springs were a bit lighter than 14-lbs and recommends a little heavier conventional recoil spring as in from 14 to 16-lbs or so. I cannot remember his exact recommendations for sure on exact poundage.
I've been using Wolff's conventional 18-lb recoil spring as my guns are pretty smoothed up from more than a little range time. This works fine for me with standard and heavier pressure loads, but others complain that they don't get reliable function with the standard pressure rounds, so I'd go 16 or 17-lbs. I also use a shock buffer from
www.buffertech.com but others will disagree and report that it
might cause malfunctions or disintegrate in the pistol and tie it up in a fight. One could use them only for range practice and remove for carry, I'd think. In any event, I've had no problems with them.
I have not purchased any Pre-Ban magazines in quite a while, but did have a problem with one which had a lighter than normal spring. I replaced it with a Wolff +10% and 100% reliability again. I've also noticed that aftermarket magazines for the CZ-75B will frequently
not insert into the magazine well of the Pre-B guns. It appears that the B version has a bit larger magazine well, but the Pre-B magazine work fine in the two CZ-75B pistols I tried them in.
Were I to use a 9mm pistol other than the Hi Power or was forced to use a conventional DA/SA auto, it would be the CZ-75.
Best.
PS: If interested, here's some more information on the CZ handguns...
http://www.hipowersandhandguns.com/BestBuys2.htm
