Shopping for a CZ-75B SA with upswept beavertail

[sbwaters]

Hi, all . . .

Have more or less settled on a 9MM CZ-75B SA with upswept beavertail, if I can find one.

Some sites picture the SA with the short beavertail the original CZ-75 had. Is that because they got the wrong illustration or has CZ changed to the upswept beavertail?

If CZ did that, do I havae to look for a higher serial number to get the upswept model?

I plan on shooting IDPA. Other than putting in a tighter bushing, anyone have advice?

Thnx!

 

[railroader]

I'm pretty sure all the 75sa guns have the up swept beaver tails. I have had mine for quite a few years and it does. Look at the pics and they should have the oversize safeties too. A standard B doesn't have those. Here's a pic of my SA with a compact B and you can see the difference in the safeties. It also says SA on the slide

 

[Walt Sherrill]

railroader has it right...

If the SA came that way from the factory (or CZ Custom), it's got the upswept (extended) beavertail. The SA models have a different frame and a slightly different slide; it also has a different straight trigger (hopefully a two-way adjustable one) and the greater, larger, ambi safety levers. The .40 models have a full-length guide rod, which means an even more-different slide (with an opening for the FLGR.). I've had them in both 9mm and .40. Newer models of other CZs (including the stainless models) also have the longer, upswept beaver tail, reversible mag releases, and some have ambi-safeties.

If you're seeing a new a paciture of a SA with the shorter beavertail, someone has probably just used the wrong photo. If it's a used gun, it may have been modified. (A modified gun may have the wrong trigger, and probably have a single, smaller safety lever -- not the larger ambi levers.