Rumors and a response.

[twoguns]

Howdy folks,

Like most 75B owners have stated, many of us have far more than the "magic 1500 rounds" through our pistols already, without any issues.

I have two 75Bs in 40, and an SP-01 in 9.  All three pistols have never had a "target/light" load fired through them.  I don't shoot competition, so I see no need to fire light or target loads.  These are carry pistols for me, and as such every round that goes downrange is either a factory JHP or a reload that equates to my factory/carry rounds.

One of my 75Bs has had well over 6000 rounds through it now, of hot and very hot loads (two different calibers), and what amazes me the most is it looks internally and externally as if it has not fired more than a few mags so far.  That is the only issue that surprises me at all with the strength and quality of the CZ pistols.  My other two pistols have nearly that number of rounds through each of them, also of carry/carry like reloads.

So if there was any basis at all for the "magic 1500" mark, I should have already had to replace several slide lock levers to date.  IF this has ever happened, at it may well have for a few folks, I strongly suspect they began to change a lot of springs and then fired rounds not well suited to that combo installed in their pistols.  But I am sure no expert, just a shooter who loves the way my CZ pistols perform for me.  Of course the action magic done on these by Mr. Angus and another gifted CZ smith have probably helped to spoil me a bit too.

Just my thoughts, and other members may have differing experiences.  But for anyone who is concerned about some magic number of rounds meaning problems, given my personal experiences, I simply do not feel there is anything to worry about.

twoguns

[earshot]

Years ago ( about 1985) I had the  model 75. The blued version. After about 10.000 rounds I replaced the barrel and had a bar-sto fitted. The gun was used for IPSC shooting which, puts a lot more stress on a gun than, let's say, bullseye shooting.
I sold the gun with more than 90.000 rounds fired. The accuracy was getting less but it's frame and slide were still OK. To this day I still have all the parts that I replaced with that gun. (I actually put the  original plastic grips on a second hand 9mm Champion I purchased last week!) The plastic bag with all the parts contained three broken slide pins and the fixed sight that was replaced by an adjustable Millet sight.

The broken pin issue did happen but not as often as one is being told. When I sold the gun it had just a hardened steel pin to lock the barrel; I could not lock the slide anymore (and didn't care).

So, after all those years I'm the owner of a cz75 again and I'm happy. The bleep thing points as natural as my own body parts and has to be the pistol with the absolute best ergonomics for my hands.
I hope it'll do as good as the previous cz!

[Cliff47]

The only thing i have had break on ANY of my CZ pistols is the plastic on a grip stud (suspect overtightening by previous owner).  I have not had any springs, or small parts break on me (one pistol has gone to the range with me consistently since purchase in 1996). 

[tipoc]

The thread over at TFL was finally closed. Something that should have happened after the first several pages. The fella who initiated the thread is a troll. An unusual and creative troll but a troll still. He went to the the effort of writing and posting a wikipedia page about himself which is here...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Larvatus

explaining that he is a troll, a "blowhard", he says.

Think about that for a minute, a fella writes a wiki page about his online persona where he explains that he is a blowhard.

He apparently decided that his mission is to explain the sort comings of  CZ designs.

He has a prejudice against Czechs...

http://www.thefiringline.com/forums/showthread.php?t=301030&highlight=CZ75&page=3

He will turn up somewhere else.  Folks should not be rude but the inexperienced may not know who they are dealing with.

tipoc

[earshot]

Haha, that he was a troll was quite obvious, or not?

You have people like that in every nation, every forum, whatever topic. Some people seem to loose their sense of reality when they're behind a keyboard.

Shoot straight.