Extended Safety, Left Hand for Shadow 2?

[randyflycaster]

The Shadow 2 comes with flat safeties and an extended, right-hand safety. An extended left-hand is about $90.00, which is pretty steep for a piece of plastic.

Just don't understand CZ's thinking. The only way I can draw and immediately disengage the safety is to use my support thumb, which means my hand will not be forward enough when I shoot.

Except for buying an extended safety, how do you folks deal with flat safeties? All the competition guns that I've seen have extended safeties.

Randy

[2morechains]

On a DA/SA gun I never use the safety lever even in competition.  Most competition rulesets only require the thumb safety to be engaged if you holster the gun with the hammer back and in single action mode, aka ‘cocked and locked’.  For USPSA Production or Carry Optics division, you start with the hammer down and in DA mode which is the whole point of a traditional DA/SA gun. 

My 1911 and 2011s on the other hand all have ambi safeties and extended levers since the manual of arms with those guns make the thumb safety an integral part of handling and shooting the gun.  But a DA/SA gun like the Shadow 2 is a completely different story. 

[randyflycaster]

I did some quick research. You are correct. Either the instructor was wrong or he was just concerned about safety and didn't want me to manually decock the gun with a round in the chamber. I watched some videos on the safest way to manually decock.

Randy

[2morechains]

I decock my Shadows using what is commonly referred to as the “thumb roll”.  I place my support thumb between the hammer and slide, gently depress the trigger with my strong hand and ‘roll’ my thumb out of the way to lower the hammer. 

Some people do the “pinch” where they pinch the hammer between thumb and index finger of their support hand while depressing the trigger.  That works as well, but CZ hammers aren’t very big and you could slip if your fingers are sweaty. 

Either method is fine, and with practice in dry-fire it becomes second nature. 

[SoCal]

I'm a "pincher" and it is second nature after awhile. 

A few sessions in dry fire are what you need.

And I don't think it is plastic, still not cheap but what in life worth doing is???

[tdogg]

I deliberately took off the extended safety to declutter the grip area when building my Accushadow 2 carry optic rig.  As mentioned, I don't use the safety in competition due to the hammer down start.

I did some quick research. You are correct. Either the instructor was wrong or he was just concerned about safety and didn't want me to manually decock the gun with a round in the chamber. I watched some videos on the safest way to manually decock.

Randy

I'm a pinch and lower the hammer to manually to decock now.  I tried the thumb roll but it is just more natural for me to pinch and lower.

You can use your shadow 2 in limited division and start locked and cocked.  If you are new that is what I'd recommend actually.  You can load your magazines fully and focus on shooting rather than magazine changes.  Of course in your situation, being a wrong handed shooter , you will have to pony up and get a wide safety lever.

Cheers,
Toby

[Lock-n-load]

I ground the extended safety’s off my shadows. Much better grip now ,and don’t hit it during shooting anymore.took about 20 min. And didn’t have to buy and fit new safetys