Tactical Jackalope said:
Unfortunately, that's a common issue I see among CZ firearms. :/ Breakage.
Interesting! Can you cite a number of examples of this "common issue" or give us some links?
I've been a CZ owner for years -- while I only have three CZs right now, I've have had many of them over the years, and also currently have a number of other handguns (ranging from SIGs, H&Ks, to S&Ws, FNs, Rugers, a Lionheart, and even a Keltec. And I've had a number of others. I've really not had problems with ANY of them.
I was a moderator on the CZ forum in the late 1990s and early 2000s, and have followed CZ weapons here and on other forums for almost two decades.
As best I can tell, breakage has NOT been a common issue with CZs -- except for a number of trigger return springs in the early 2000s. (They used an outside provider.) CZ also had some cosmetic problems with early P-07 and RAMI polymer frames -- bulges that looked awful, but the guns stilll worked right -- but CZ dealt with it.
I now personally know of THREE broken CZ-97B barrel lugs, but haven't heard of that problem with any other CZ model. (This despite the fact that CZ is selling a LOT MORE CZs today than they did about 10 years ago. If problems were common, I would expect more problems with more guns out there, but that doesn't seem to be the case.)
That said, I had a .45 Witness Sport Long Slide barrel break on me, but not the barrel lug -- a crack went through the chamber! A number of Witness 10mm and .45 slides had a tendency to crack, too -- and it was a problem that Witness would not cover under warranty; Tanfoglio eventually redesigned the slide, but the owners with cracked slides were just SOL.
Maybe you know something that many CZ enthusiasts don't. If so, we'd love to hear about it.
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