Tecolote,
I have had 4 fail to extract/eject instances in 300 rounds. The first two happened in the first two hundred rounds using Georgia Arms 115gr ball. The other two happened in the third hundred rounds using Winchester "white box" 115gr ball. In the first two instances the brass was left partially in the chamber requiring the dropping of the magazine and a rack of the slide to remove it. Both happened in the middle of a magazine. In the second two instances the empty brass was left lying on top of the mag follower after the last shot from the mag when the slide locked back requiring that the gun be tilted over to dump the empty.
I initially thought that maybe the failures were ammo related. The Georgia Arms stuff shot SOOO nasty that I figured maybe the chamber was fouling so bad that it was gripping the brass too tight. I got the Winchester to see if the gun would fail with another brand ammo. Also, between brands I gave the chamber and barrel a real scrubbing and a very light run through with CLP and JB bore paste on a patch to insure that ANY fouling in the chamber was removed before trying another ammo.
After I had two failures in one hundred rounds with different ammo and a thorough cleaning I called CZ-USA and told the very polite female that answered the phone that I needed to speak with someone about a problem with a CZ pistol. She put me through to "Mike". In short, I didn't exactly hang up the phone with a warm fuzzy feeling toward CZ-USA that some people seem to get after talking to Mike. To be fair, public relations really isn't his responsibility and I understand that. He fixes CZs and from what I've heard he's VERY good at that. I know he must be a very busy person and answering the phone no doubt takes him away from other tasks. Fair enough, no problem, I understand this.
Mike said it sounded like a defective extractor. I asked him if I needed to send it to him. He said that he'd send me an extractor and briefly explained how to put it in. He also said that it would go out "today" which was 08/09/01. A week and a day later I still have a useless pistol and no parts to fix it.
And here we are. I have seen the address to the CZ home office somewhere. As soon as I dig it up I am going to send them a letter making known my disgust with the way this matter has been handled. I think I'll also send a copy to CZ-USA. My e-mails get polite and courteous replies but no action to date. This does not fix my pistol. I won't put another round through it until I have installed the parts. Each failure decreases my confidence in this pistol. Each day that passes without parts in my hand to fix it decreases my confidence in CZ-USA. It doesn't seem to be as big of a deal with them as it is me.
R6