The Original CZ Forum
ARCHIVES => CZF ARCHIVES II => CZ Reviews => Topic started by: Brian C. on March 13, 2011, 05:02:00 AM
-
I am a novice pistol owner, but have pretty particular desires. My first pistol was a Glock 23 back in the early 90's. That was stolen from my car in a few months. I was impressed with it then, but had noting to compare it to. About a year or so later I purchased a Para P12. I always wanted a 1911 and could finally afford one so I thought all was right in the world. I LOVED the ergos and size BUT It wasn't good. It had a lot of problems out of the box. I was spoiled from the Glock and found any pistol that didn't function out of the box unacceptable. I have since decided to refrain from judgment until I have fired 300-500 rds. through it. Sold it forthwith and haven't bought a pistol since. A friend of mine got into pistols a few months ago and bought a few (SIG P22? DA only? S&W M&P). He wanted to shoot with someone so he gave me an old Glock 17 (Gen 1) he bought was a police trade in to have around. I went with him to the range to get back into it and was not having fun with the Glock. The ergos and trigger didn't do it for me.
I decided to buy my own pistol and gave him his Glock back. Parameters: to "feel" like a 1911 but be 9mm, RELIABLE, not be SA only as I don't trust myself to disengage safety under stress, and not be striker fired or plastic. I started my research and decided on the CZ PCR.
Fast forward a failure free month and 500 rounds and my first pistol with a trigger job (that I performed) has COMPLETELY IMPRESSED! The DA isn't as nice as my friends SIG, but PRETTY CLOSE! And it is ACCURATE too. Last week my friend and I took another friend shooting and he shoots a Steyr M9. He shot my CZ better than he shot HIS Steyr! Both my friends have other issues as to why they won't buy a CZ (One likes striker fired and the other doesn't like how the low the slide is for racking) but I can tell they like it. We were all shooting 1/4 scale torsos at 7 yds. (read 28 yds.) slow fire and my friend with the Steyr could shoot my CZ all in the A zone. A feat neither my other friend or I can do with any pistol let alone their own (we suck). Needles to say I AM SOLD. I can't decide if I want to sink more money into this one, or buy another CZ..... I guess only time will tell. I DO know, I will probably never buy a striker fired pistol, and the reason is this. I don't like the trigger break on them. Yes, my Glock was crisp and since then I've shot tricked out ones too, bit there is some intangible quality to the break I just don't like. Probably a lot of 1911 fans wouldn't like the brake on my PCR as it's not super crisp, BUT it is light, smooth and Almost perfect.. I just wish the reset was shorter.
-
Buy another one, then another and another........... You are hooked! ;)
-
Sounds like you're in for the long haul!
-
yep, you are hooked. I also have the fever. Bought a 75B 40, added rubber grips and now looking at a the P-01. Enjoy your CZ. cheaha bill
-
I bought my first CZ fomat pistol in March and was immediately hooked. It was a TZ 75.88. Since then, I've traded other pistols for a CZ Compact, a CZ 97 and an Armalite AR24k. It's a disease I guess. Hopefully irs not as bad as Mosinitis.
Tim
-
Nice. Bought my first yesterday and just ordered a p07 from BoBs. The 1911's are going to the safe for a while and the kahr is going up for sale
Sent from my Galaxy Nexus using Tapatalk
-
I too bought an array of new pistols to find the CZ's to be my favorites. I recently decided to try some "others" which included: Springfield XDM 9mm 4.5" - Hatted it. Trigger pull was not to my liking and after about 20-30 rounds your hands were tore all to pieces from the plastic on the grips. I tried the different sizes they send in the box and no relief. - Walthers 9mm - Really hated it. The trigged pull was almost all the way back to the grip and it felt like a toy. The slide release felt like it was fragile and would break if you hit it too hard.....
Once i shot a couple hundred rounds through the two of them I proceeded to take them down and clean them up......wow.....didn't know you could use so much plastics in a gun.....To make a long story short, I use these pistols when my friends come over and they tell me how good of a shot they are. I hand them one of the two.....HAHA.....They loose every time I pick up my CZ's and show em how its done.
-
I'm glad you found CZ! My son introduced me to a CZ 82 when he came home from Iraq in 2010. I loved his CZ 82 and got one last Christmas. Since then, I bought another, a CZ 52, and Santa is bringing me a CZ p06 for Christmas!
You also found a great forum . . . you will learn a lot here. I've been shooting for 53 years and keep learning new things here.