CZ 75b from 1996 for $400

magician422

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I am looking to buy a CZ-75b and came across a classified for one for $400. It has around 2000 rounds through it and still fires well. Comes with original and hogue grips and 3 magazines. Is $400 the correct price or is the person asking too much?

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Probably an OK price -- not terrible and not great. But you have to cope with an ugly finish problem. You can find them in that price range or less on GunBroker, but then you have to have it shipped to an FFL, and pay his fees, too. You might be able to get it for a little less.

The polycoat is messed up pretty badly. (I wonder if one of the prior owners had a problem getting the slide stop out an didn't know about the little lines on the other side, near the rear, where slide and frame must be aligned.)

If you get it, you can lightly sand that chipped area and use Dupli-Color Auto Body Touch-up paint (in matte black) to help get it looking nearly back to normal. (Probably any matte black auto paint will work, if you can't find Dupli-Color.) That won't stand up as well as polycoat, but YOU probably won't be banging on it like has been done. :)

That touch-up paint comes in a small applicator bottles or in a spray can. The spray might be a better option, but you'll probably want to remove the slide, and practice a bit on small strip of wood, and cover/mask a good bit of the frame to keep the paint away from areas that don't need it. For smaller areas, spray a little on something plastic, and use a brush to pick some up and apply -- the spray paint is thinner and easier to use than the stuff in the applicator bottle.
 
I have owned three CZ75s, but would pass on that one. Externally, it looks like a beater. What's on the inside might come as an unpleasant surprise. The CZs are not particularly expensive guns in the first place. I'm not sure how cheap that example would have to be to entice me to buy.....ymmv
 
Too much...

In that condition I would not give more than $300.

This is a much better deal for $425 plus transfer fees.
 
The externals can often tell a story of abuse or neglect.

A new CZ 75 is around $500-600.

$400 is too much for that gun. Assuming the internals are in excellent shape, I'd try to get as close to $300 as possible and might go to $350.
 
yeah, I was just going to say the same. save u for another week and add a hundred bucks and buy yourself a new or like-new CZ. Unless you already have a nice CZ, and you don't mind an ugly one, your going to end up putting 100$ into that one anyways.
 
The grip screw doesn't look original. That plus the external condition would keep me from buying unless I could take it down and examine it closely.

...and I wouldn't pay the asking price either--not by a long shot.
 
Looks just like a CDI Sales Israeli police trade in. Check this link on Gunbroker, then look at sellers other auctions as well: Auction # 501303380

Starting at $275.00.
 
I agree that it is a bit too much. Buy a new one as others have said, or offer $300. They are stellar pistols.
 
Being that the pistol has a 96 date it probably is one of the "military" models that were sold around 1999-2000. They sold new for $300. I had one which I should of kept. I would pass on the gun you are looking at. It looks beat on from someone who didn't know or care how to take it apart. I would keep looking or buy a Cz clone like a Sar. They run new around $300.
 
More like $300 in that condition. You can get them for 500+ new in my neck of the woods. I bought a used P-01 in mint condtion, original box, papers 2 mags, night sights for $390 out the door.

Same store I can buy it new for $529 + tax.
 
I'm on the flip side with this. A CZ with at least a few hundred downrange will be much 'slicker' than a new one, and IMO more preferable to a new one.

I wouldn't pay $400 though.
 
That plus the external condition would keep me from buying unless I could take it down and examine it closely.

...and I wouldn't pay the asking price either--not by a long shot.

Yup. Probably tried using a screw driver to punch the slide release take down lever out. Those are often stuck in there good. In doing so marred the finish badly. Probably also means it didn't get cleaned much since it was so difficult for the owner to take down.

$300 if the internals are in good shape. Maybe $350 if you really, really want it and the internals are in great shape. A cerakote would set you back another $150, which gets you to the price of a new one...

If the internals are dirty or suspect in any way, I'd pass.
 
My second or third CZ was a CZ-75 -- and it was in the same sort of shape as the one shown in the photo. Early 75B polycoats were easily damaged, and it looks as though the gun in the photo had a run in with someone who didn't know how to remove the slide stop. Just working the action and trying the trigger would give you an indication of the gun's internals.

I stripped the pre-B mentioned above with paint remover, polished it, cleaned it, and cold-blued it with Brownells OX-PHO BLUE. It turned out beautifully... and had one of the smoothest crispest triggers I've ever felt in a CZ. I later traded it away, but have had many other CZs over the years.

That said, there are guns for just a bit more that are in better cosmetic shape.
 
The brand-new Turkish versions are around $300.

I have a used Israeli version that works great and shows noteable cosmetic wear. I paid $300 for it. At the time I knew I had probably overpaid a bit, but it is a SWEET shooter.
 
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