I have several CZ's from various vintages. Out of all my guns, only my 2006 stainless CZ75 and my 2010 Cold War commemorative have this dismal extra-curved trigger. I love all my guns and they're great shooters, but I despise this horrid new curved trigger and will never buy another CZ with one on there, since I don't want to deal with the hassle of switching it out, when I can buy minty used guns, or other new models, without the malady.
The bottom and side edges of the new super-curved trigger are too sharp, making the trigger tear up your finger. The travel is too far to the rear as well, occasionally pinching part of the pad of your finger behind the trigger and against the frame when the trigger is pulled fully to the rear. Even worse, I cannot rely on these two guns for self-defense, because with my larger hands I cannot reliably cycle the trigger all the way to the rear with a double-action stroke. I practically have to crunch my hand into a balled fist around the grip frame to make the gun go off. It makes me have to shift my grip on the gun. I don't have any such problem with the standard triggers on all my wonderful CZ 75s and 85s from the 80's up until these two newer guns. I'm not even talking about the "trigger slap" phenomenon some people are discussing on other threads which is a stinging or numbing of their trigger finger. I'm just taking about the badly-shaped new design and the sharp, ugly edges of the curved, thin trigger.
Try sometime taking an older CZ with the standard trigger in one hand, and the newer CZ with a recurved trigger in the other hand. Try to dry-fire them double-action simultaneously. You'll very likely be shocked at how late the "recurved trigger" gun goes off, if at all, in comparison, and how much extra effort/squeezing force it takes to discharge it, if your hands are medium or slightly larger. The recurve trigger drops the hammer at a point where your hand is past its strongest, in the range of motion, if you're like me.
As far as the CZ 85 trigger goes...I know the CZ 85 triggers on my older guns are less curved than these newer CZ 75 triggers, but I now see listed on CZUSA the two versions of "new" CZ 85 triggers. Short of scavenging triggers off older CZ's, I'm not sure which current-issue trigger would go furthest toward solving this, if either, or how much the "newest" cz 85 trigger has been changed, and if it would be straight enough or forward enough now for my tastes.
Does anyone out there that has swapped their standard older trigger in favor of one of these new recurve triggers or newer adjustable CZ 85 triggers want to sell me their older style straighter, thicker trigger?
Please??? If anyone with small hands or a small stash of used parts is willing to part with , say, their 1995 to 2004 CZ 75B thicker trigger, I'm yer huckleberry! Please contact me, I just need two of 'em. mgschindel@juno.com
