Author Topic: CZ75b in .40s&w - Can I use EAA 40 mags? (Read 1896 times)

thomasanelson · « **on:** December 16, 2005, 06:00:50 PM »

I have a CZ75b in .40s&w. Mags are a little expensive and hard to find (CA resident 10rd max). Can I use EAA Witness full frame .40 mags? Others?

Walt-Sherrill · « **Reply #1 on:** December 16, 2005, 06:56:44 PM »

Yes.

You may end up replacing springs, eventually. They work.

angus hobdell · « **Reply #2 on:** December 21, 2005, 05:19:45 PM »

From my experience the magazine release cut in the EAA magazine are in a slightly different place and work without modification in some guns but not others

Walt-Sherrill · « **Reply #3 on:** December 21, 2005, 06:03:51 PM »

As Angus says...

If you find they are hard to lock in place, you can enlarge the top of the mag release notch (with a small needle file or Dremel), and they'll work pretty well.

The problem is that the CZ mag release is set just a hair higher in the grip than the EAA/Tanfoglio mag release.

I've found that EAA Mags worked fine in most of my CZs (but not in the pre-B models.) I had several with my CZ-40B and they worked as well as CZ factory mags. (But because the base plate is different, they didn't look as good in the grip.)

thomasanelson · « **Reply #4 on:** February 11, 2006, 01:01:57 PM »

Thanks guys. Any others that work well? Also, same question for P-01?

jer1949 · « **Reply #5 on:** February 13, 2006, 04:15:10 PM »

I experienced some problems with the factory mags on my 75B in .40 also. AND.....I live in California. Now Walt may flame me for this, but I simply ordered some new 12 round mags from Mec-Gar and low and behold, they shipped em to me. They work beautifully also. But of course I never load more than 10 rounds in them.

Jerry

SIGarette · « **Reply #6 on:** February 13, 2006, 04:33:58 PM »

I just modifed a half dozen of these mags to work with my CZ-75. All six came in EAA packaging, but three of them had Tanfoglio markings on the mag. All 6 mags worked without modification, except the EAA (non-Tanfoglio) activated the slide lock with one round left in the magazine. I also noticed that when these were locked into the gun, the top of the mag was wedged against the ejector. On these three mags, I opened up the mag catch hole by removing material from the top of the hole. I enlargeed the hole by about 0.5 to 1 mm.

Another problem I noticed (on all 6 mags) was that the rim of the mag base (is that the floorplate?) wasn't stopping the travel of the inserted mag. The top of the mag was smacking into the ejector and I slammed the mag home. I figured that was not cool, so I glued some spacers on the rim of the magazine base. I used plastic shim stock, trimmed to size, for the spacers.

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