montrala,
This discription of the CZ 75 series is very helpful for me since I have been considering buying a SP-01 pistol for recreational range use. The big SP-01 weighs about as much as a steel framed 1911 government model, but it shoots the mild-recoiling 9mm. CZ's are known to have good barrels and the price is reasonable so I thought it would be a good hobby pistol.
I will not use the CZ as an everyday carry pistol, I have an HK for that use.
Thank you.
Originally Posted by
montrala
Models that I've seen supplied with multiple slide stops are from 75 series including SP-01 Shadow, Tactical Sport (aka IPSC) and CzechMate model. Usually it is one spare, 2 for TS model in .40SW and saw 3 in ChechMate (but this came with spare barrel as well).
I do not know exact round counts, as those were not my pistols, but as far as I can remember from talking to owner it can be from 1500 to 5000 rounds. This, of course, happens more often on .40SW guns. Actually lot of shooters replace slide stops (giving up slide stop feature) with titanium pins, that roll inside receiver (kind like M4 trigger pins) and are held in place by pieces of duct or electrical tape on sides of frame. This cure take down pin breaks, or so I've been told.
Most of this observations are from big IPSC matches (usually round count of 200 to 500 rounds per match). Usually shooters attend 5 to 15 that big matches per year plus several smaller ones. Add training and this is serious round count. CZ factory team shoots big match somewhere in Europe (or beyond) basically every weekend, so they can worn out several pistols a year. Glocks, HKs or STI/SVI usually see higher round counts before they are replaced. I also witness lot of reliability problems with pistols that are actually nothing more than CZ 75 clones (Tanfoglio from Italy sold in US as EEA Witness if I'm correct and Sphinx from Swiss), but not breaking take down pins.
However CZ have significant advantages that made them popular - good ergonomy, great trigger, flat shooting due to low slide mass, lot of factory "competition" parts that are legal in IPSC Production (it is far more restricted that USPSA Production) and as one most important thing - big magazine capacity of SP-01 Shadow (effectively even 18+1 or 19+1) for Production division. Since this went out after 15 rounds loaded rule, I know shooters that gave up on CZ and went to HK P30LS instead or came back to Glock 17.
Actually I like shooting CZ, those are great shooting pistols, but I would never trust it enough to use it as my carry pistol.
Last edited by Eliakim; 08-21-11 at 08:22.
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