What is so great about CZs

Eat any and all factory loads------+P, +P+------you name it

Very accurate out to 15 yards

Smooth DA trigger

Able to be carried cocked and locked

Hi-Cap mags aplenty

Great feel in the hand

Combat proven over and over

Good factory service
 
very well made
very accurate
very good ergonomics
very good model/caliber/feature selections and
very reasonably priced

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Don't forget to mention the finish

The CZ is available with a relatively care free finish as well as the reasons mentioned above.

Truly one of the better deals, if not the best, on the market. It would be hard to find another gun with all the features and reliability of a CZ at any price.

-monkey
 
Im a co-administrator on the CZ Forum. I love Cz guns and alot of other fine firearms also. Everything said about CZ above is true. They are very reasonable...almost cheap to buy. The quality is as good as Sig or Beretta...in all calibers and models.
The finishes are plentiful...satin nickel, poly black, blue...two tone.
The accuracy outa the box is as good as just about any other production gun. They fit most hands like it was made for you.
The triggers are pretty damn good...especially the 83...about as good as it gets. Good sights from the factory and usually dialed right in. HI Cap mags are plentiful and reasonable...They eat any ammo known to man. And other things I havent covered....
Dollar for Dollar its about the best deal out there...Shoot well
 
I'm thinking of getting a CZ 75B SA. I held a CZ 75 B & my question/problem is the safety. It was either stiff (hard to move up/down) or my thumb is too short to reach the safety. The CZ was used. If my thumb can't reach the safety then the CZ is wrong for me. If the safety was stiff will the safety loosen up?
 
I wondered the same thing until I bought one about 2 wks ago. I don't wonder any more. It has to be the best shooter you can get for under $400.

Someone mentioned they are very accurate out to 15 yd. that is not true, I can (on a good day) shoot 1.5 " groups out at 25 yds. and further.

I love this gun!

(and you will too)

Good luck !
 
They're unusual, inexpensive, and shoot well. Like other inexpensive Eastern Block guns (Makarov), details that would be completely unacceptable in a Western made pistol are ignored. The interior finish of a CZ looks like it was gnawed by a bear. That doesn't impact their ability to launch bullets, so this can be justified at the price.

For some reason there are also outlandish claims made on their behalf. For example, they're a whole lot less "combat-proven" than many other popular pistols, and few military or police units have standardized on them.

The sights on the CZ 75B are mediocre at best, the triggers are highly variable (some good, some not-so-good) and most of them are polymer coated, functional but not especially attractive.

Accurate? Sure, they are decently accurate. But Gun Week compared the CZ75 to a Beretta 92. The Beratta 92 isn't generally acclaimed for accuracy and few would put them in the same league as a SIG P226. Yet with every load -out of nine - the Beretta was more accurate - average group size of 2.72" versus 3.19" by my calculations. Gun Week Comparison Test

Some of the same people who say how wonderful they are also the first to say that $420 is too much to pay for one. The proof of the pudding is in the eating and if the CZ was as good as a SIG, I guess they'd be selling for $600 to $700, right? I have a CZ 85 Combat, and it's a good pistol. But with a Teddy Jacobson trigger job, recrowning, and ramp job (over $200 worth of work) is for sale for $550 in MA (where prices are high and new CZ's aren't available) - about the price of a used Beretta 92 - with no takers. So, please, CZ fanatics, step right up!

P.S. I don't want to sell it out of MA because I want to keep as many guns here as possible.
 
Was the gun with the stiff safety...

Cocked?

if not, there is a good reason for the safety to be tough to use. It is not supposed to work with the hammer down. Only with the hammer back. If this is not the case please disregard the previous comment and read the next.

I cannot use the safety with the grip held the way I would when I'm aiming the gun with my finger on the trigger. By removing my finger from the trigger I have no prob with the safety. Some people may not like this.

my limited experience has shown me that most handguns that I have held that have a lower, easier to reach, safety also have a barrel that sits higher above my hand and corrrespondingly is harder to point naturally and has more felt recoil. Probably just me.

Buy it!
-monkey
 
vvg ur funny!

please don't quote gun rag stats here You make my sides split with laughter.

I have shot the SIG and the CZ side by side.

I'll tell you this...

I'll admit the SIG has a slightly better trigger but I and others shot the cz more accurately. No bench rest involved, just real guys shooting real guns.

I can't remember the last time I shared the opinion of a gun writer.

-monkey
 
VVG,

The article you referred to said the CZ was faster at putting rounds on target during draw and fire drills and from the look of the group sizes of the different ammo fired it would make no difference in a gunfight.
 
CZ's heavily used worldwide

Used by military/police/special ops units in:

Czech Republic (duh?)
Slovakia
CSFR
Germany (Ministry of Def Spec Forces)
Malta
UK
Spain
Belgium
Finland
Netherlands
Hungary
Yugoslavia
Croatia
Slovenia
Macedonia
Greece
Bulgaria
Turkey
Cyprus
Lithuania
Latvia
Estonia
Ukraine
Poland

Syria
Israel
Lebanon
UAE
Yemen
Oman
Pakistan
Iraq
Iran
India
Sri Lanka
Kazakhstan
Georgia
Mongolia
Thailand
Malaysia
Singapore
Indonesia
Philippines
Brunei

The CZ 75 has been fiddled with since '75 in about every kind of weather condition you can think of. Yep, it's not polished real pretty inside, but it can hold its own against the best brands out there that cost twice as much.
 
Stiff Safety

Yes it was cocked. I was trying from low ready to bring to bring the pistol to bare & be able to remove the safety. Then bring the pistol back to low read putting the safety back on. I was having trouble. I don't remember if the problem was my thumb reach or the safety was stiff. I guess I'll have to look at other CZs. This will be a carry pistol.
 
Switching the safety on isn't something you're going to be doing under stress, so it can be a bit stiff.

Switching it off should be a firm and consistent effort.

There's a little stamped metal plate under the safety lever that is the on/off detent. Perhaps that plate had some rough spots.
 
Gun Week says the Beretta 92 is more accurate than the CZ75. I say, in my hands the CZ runs circles around the Beretta in the accuracy dept. Carried the 92 as USAF Sp , owned one and shot others, I definetly shoot the CZ much better. Field strip my Turk overrun CZ and you don't see the hammer and chisel marks that people talk about. And as far as having all kinds of upgrades, I say phewy. My CZ is stock right out of the box and on a good day I can do 1" groups at 20yds. firing offhand. It's just what the individual shooter prefers. Also to add to PeteJ88's list, I have read an article that Russia's Spetsnaz now carries the CZ75.
 
They're inexpensive. They could run for $100 more and still be considered great guns, but then again they wouldnt be as popular or as readily available to the U.S. market at that price.
 
Don't forget there are certain U.S. forces that use the CZ75 in Black OP's.

The thing I like about the CZ versus the Sig is that the CZ frame does not get gouged all to heck like the AL Sig frame. As far as the internals, there are few as meaty as the CZ.

The Coopster says the CZ is the only 9mm he would own. (Jeff Cooper)
 
Adding to all of the other comments made, the CZ75 is the most copied pistol design of all time.

And I, like others here, consistantly shoot the CZ75 better than anyhing I own outside of my 1911's.
 
I've shot a CZ75 (both B and PCR), 85, 40, as well as a baby eagle .40S&W full size. Wasn't particularily impressed with any of them. I just can't get used to the trigger - it's smooth, but it feels extremely heavy. I can see how people would like them, but they are definately not going to be part of my collection unless I come into a very large surplus of cash.
 
When I started shopping for a new pistol I did several polls here related to the pros and cons of specific manufacturers. If you do a search for poll and CZ you will likely find it. I was surprised to see CZ had as many dedicated fans as the people who replied to any other manufacturer, including the Glock! Actually, in my enthusiasm I received several angry responses because I clogged up the system with too many polls. Lesson learned.
 
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