OK, I have been a CZ fan for years (I've had my CZ 75B for 16 years now). I've owned a CZ 40B that I liked but sold when I needed money (and regretted since then). I'm always recommending CZ on various gun boards. I'm definitely a fan. However, for some reason my CZ P01 has not really clicked with me yet.
I bought it a year ago last fall so I've had it a while (almost a year and a half now). I bought it because it seemed like it would be a good carry gun for me (when I'm in a state where I can carry). For years, I carried as small as possible, but I had recently changed philosophy on that. While it is nice to have a smaller gun or two available when that is all that would do, for day to day use I had changed over to preferring something with as much capacity and capability as possible/practical. I liked the traditional compact size with a near full size capacity, space for my hand, and recoil absorption/follow up shot speed, yet still being smaller than a full size for concealment. It also came as I was changing from valuing capacity/higher size/greater capability as my #1 criteria to (while still valuing it highly), it dropped to #2 behind carrying what I shoot best. Well, the two platforms I always have shot best are the 1911 and my full sized CZ 75B. I find that with 1911s there is a very marginal difference between how well I shoot a full sized, lightweight Commander size (my S&W 1911SC) or Officer sized (my RIA), so maybe the marginally smaller compact sized CZs would be as good in my hands as the CZ 75B.
On the plus side, it is pretty accurate compared to most other guns for me, though not up to what I can do with a 1911 or the full sized 75B. It hasn't had any reliability issues whatsoever, which possibly makes it even more reliable than my CZ 75B or the CZ 40 I used to have since they both needed a short break-in period. In comparison, I went through some old posts of mine here and the CZ 40 had 2 or 3 failures to feed in the first 200 or so rounds (then went a couple thousand more with no issues before I sold it), and my CZ 75B had 2 or 3 FTE in the first 200 rounds before many thousands without a problem (in 10-20K rounds since then it has had so few issues I could count them on one hand). So, if the P01 continues to be trouble free it is actually more reliable than they are/were.
Unfortunately, I'm just not liking it all that much (and I've never actually carried it aside from carrying around the apartment). While fairly accurate, it isn't as accurate in my hands as I hoped given my proficiency with the full size. It isn't nearly as comfortable to shoot as I hoped, in fact, I have smaller and lighter guns that seem to absorb recoil better (my S&W M&P40c is more comfortable, and more accurate, for me to shoot, and my little 9mm SIG P290RS is almost as comfortable to shoot). I hate the trigger. Not the trigger pull, but the trigger slap. The first time I shot it (150 rounds) it actually rubbed the skin off my finger, since then it has been a little better each time I shoot it, but it is still uncomfortable. There is also the fact that I always wanted a PCR, but at the time I bought it, there were no PCRs to be had so I settled on the P01 hoping it would grow on me enough that I wouldn't care. Well, that may be a big part of never really warming to my P01.
I bought it a year ago last fall so I've had it a while (almost a year and a half now). I bought it because it seemed like it would be a good carry gun for me (when I'm in a state where I can carry). For years, I carried as small as possible, but I had recently changed philosophy on that. While it is nice to have a smaller gun or two available when that is all that would do, for day to day use I had changed over to preferring something with as much capacity and capability as possible/practical. I liked the traditional compact size with a near full size capacity, space for my hand, and recoil absorption/follow up shot speed, yet still being smaller than a full size for concealment. It also came as I was changing from valuing capacity/higher size/greater capability as my #1 criteria to (while still valuing it highly), it dropped to #2 behind carrying what I shoot best. Well, the two platforms I always have shot best are the 1911 and my full sized CZ 75B. I find that with 1911s there is a very marginal difference between how well I shoot a full sized, lightweight Commander size (my S&W 1911SC) or Officer sized (my RIA), so maybe the marginally smaller compact sized CZs would be as good in my hands as the CZ 75B.
On the plus side, it is pretty accurate compared to most other guns for me, though not up to what I can do with a 1911 or the full sized 75B. It hasn't had any reliability issues whatsoever, which possibly makes it even more reliable than my CZ 75B or the CZ 40 I used to have since they both needed a short break-in period. In comparison, I went through some old posts of mine here and the CZ 40 had 2 or 3 failures to feed in the first 200 or so rounds (then went a couple thousand more with no issues before I sold it), and my CZ 75B had 2 or 3 FTE in the first 200 rounds before many thousands without a problem (in 10-20K rounds since then it has had so few issues I could count them on one hand). So, if the P01 continues to be trouble free it is actually more reliable than they are/were.
Unfortunately, I'm just not liking it all that much (and I've never actually carried it aside from carrying around the apartment). While fairly accurate, it isn't as accurate in my hands as I hoped given my proficiency with the full size. It isn't nearly as comfortable to shoot as I hoped, in fact, I have smaller and lighter guns that seem to absorb recoil better (my S&W M&P40c is more comfortable, and more accurate, for me to shoot, and my little 9mm SIG P290RS is almost as comfortable to shoot). I hate the trigger. Not the trigger pull, but the trigger slap. The first time I shot it (150 rounds) it actually rubbed the skin off my finger, since then it has been a little better each time I shoot it, but it is still uncomfortable. There is also the fact that I always wanted a PCR, but at the time I bought it, there were no PCRs to be had so I settled on the P01 hoping it would grow on me enough that I wouldn't care. Well, that may be a big part of never really warming to my P01.