My hand & the CZ 75

I have a PreB CZ75. This pistol was purchased to teach a sixgun shooter the ins & outs of a pistol. After all it can be fired DA, SA, & carried cocked & locked. My thinking was to study & shoot this gun & learn the platforms & later decide on which I wished to pursue.

Any way I love the little gun. It runs prefect, no malfunctions from the ammo I’ve used. It shoots jacketed or lead loads & shoots them well. My only gripe is the pistol doesn’t fit me which is no fault of the gun. My hand is just too small to work the CZ 75 without altering my shooting grip. Don’t get me wrong, I can shoot it & shoot it well but to operate the safety, mag release, & fire the gun DA I must move my grip at least some.

With well over a 1000 rounds down range & countless hours of drawing & dry firing I testify they are a good pistol & one I would bet my life on. Look the pictures over, measure your hand & hopefully you can at least get a “grip” on how it will fit you.
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I think this business of needing to have a gun that fits your hand is a bit overrated. Sometimes it doesn't pay to overthink this stuff. If I limited my collection to guns that "fit" my hand, I'd have my HK P30 and my 1911's and my revolvers, and not much else. I have several different auto-pistols including my own CZ 75B and it works great for me and I think I shoot it pretty well, and that's all that really counts by my standards. My own $0.02 on this subject.
 
I think this business of needing to have a gun that fits your hand is a bit overrated. Sometimes it doesn't pay to overthink this stuff. If I limited my collection to guns that "fit" my hand, I'd have my HK P30 and my 1911's and my revolvers, and not much else. I have several different auto-pistols including my own CZ 75B and it works great for me and I think I shoot it pretty well, and that's all that really counts by my standards. My own $0.02 on this subject.
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I agree, but it is a wonderful bonus when one does fit!
 
It is easy to say that fitting your hand is overrated if you have hands somewhere towards the middle of the bell curve. I am 6'6", my FiL is 6'8", and we have large hands even for our height. One of my best frinds is 5'4". For the three of us, whether or not the handgun fits our hands well is one of the very most important factors that determines whether or not we can shoot it worth a darn.

I love my older fat-gripped CZ75 clone. My tiny-handed friend can't shoot it worth squat. That's the way it goes.

l commend the OP for giving this excellent handgun a fair shake. If thinner grips won't fix it up for him, he will just have to move along to something better suited. That's the way it goes. As the author said: You can avoid facing reality, but you can't avoid the consequences of not facing reality. Pretending that it fits you doesn't make it fit you.
 
TunnelRat said:
The Short Reset System from Cajun doesn't change the overall trigger reach. That's what the Reach Reduction Kit is for. Or is that what you meant?
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Yup. My error. That was the first thing that came to mind, and it wasn't what I should've written.
 
It is easy to say that fitting your hand is overrated if you have hands somewhere towards the middle of the bell curve.
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Nope, Not Me! I wear 2XL-3XL motorcycle gloves depending on who makes them & how they're cut. My HK P30 has the large backstrap and sideshells on it and that grip is perfect. I have the large beavertail backstrap on my Gen4 Glock 21 to make it more comfortable to shoot. Nobody else I know can shoot these guns the way the grips are configured.
 
I like your 2 cents JD.

I agree with JD too. If you're hitting the target consistently, that's what counts.
Some posters here say they are not comfortable because their hands are too big for certain guns so it goes both ways.
 
The same measurement that you did with the tape measure gives me a reach of 3 3/4", which is considerably shorter than yours. I have no trouble reaching the trigger on my CZ75.:confused:
 
gyvel said:
The same measurement that you did with the tape measure gives me a reach of 3 3/4", which is considerably shorter than yours. I have no trouble reaching the trigger on my CZ75.
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As your post indicates, it's more than JUST trigger finger length from the knuckles that matters. The overall geometry (for want of a better term) matters too. (If you look at X-rays of the human hand from a Google search -- there are bunches of the out there -- you'll see that the length of the first two bones from the wrist for both the forefinger and thumb can vary greatly and can affect the "web" between those two fingers and limit just how far the trigger finger can reach.)

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The same measurement that you did with the tape measure gives me a reach of 3 3/4", which is considerably shorter than yours. I have no trouble reaching the trigger on my CZ75.
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If you look at the picture I can reach the trigger. I can't lay the center of my pad squarely on the trigger face like my sixgun. That's how I would rather shoot. But as I said in the OP I can handle the gun.

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The earliest pre-B didn't have the half-cock notch, but later ones did. I've had five of them, and only the oldest didn't have the half-cock notch. (It was painted with a crappy enamel finish, and I refinished it before I later sold it. It may have been a rare "short-rail" model, but I didn't know about them at the time. Duh.)

I always found the rounded trigger-guard of the pre-Bs to be more elegant than the B models. (I wish I had picked up one of the newer models that were made to look like the pre-B. They didn't make a lot of them -- but they were true B models that LOOKED like pre-B.)
 
I've owned the first gun with interchangeable backstraps for years (Walther P99)...but I never new there was a gun with interchangeable front straps. Which one?
 
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