Is this right?

[DrDeFab]

I'm evaluating a used CZ 100 before buying. I haven't taken it to the range yet, as I wanted to check on this before testing it for real.

If you dry-fire it, the trigger free-floats until you push the slide back a tiny amount. 1/32" will do it. Then it make an audible click and engages again.

Is that normal, or is something wrong? I thought one of the unique capabilities was double strike, and this seems to indicate it won't do that w/o "micro-racking" the slide.

Any help appreciated.

[dleong]

Welcome to the Forum, DDF!

What you described doesn't sound right. On the CZ 100, with the slide in battery, you should immediately begin to feel resistance when you start pulling the trigger back. That resistance is the striker spring being compressed.

Preliminarily, it sounds like someone attempted and botched a trigger job on that particular CZ 100.

[DrDeFab]

Here's a follow up. The actual cause was a small piece of copper (from the nose of a JHP?) that had gotten into the opening in the slide near the firing pin, and was preventing the firing pin from returning all the way to properly reset. Could possibly have caused a slamfire if it were bigger. (although if it was much bigger, it wouldn't have gone through the hole.)

After a detail strip & clean, it's as good as new.

[LOGAN]

Help. I have a cz 99 caliber 40 s&w stamped made in yugoslavia. I am trying to identify if it is rare. I was told that I have one of 60.

[Walt-Sherrill]

Rare?  Yes.  But only because it's a fairly good knock-off of a SIG made by a couple of small companies, all of which have had some financial difficulties.  

I don't think its in production anymore, but I have heard rumors of a similar gun now being made in Canada.  Some were made in South Africa for a time.

It is unlikely to have any collector value.  You may be able to sell it for what you paid for it, if you're lucky.  Rareness in this type of situation does not add value.

Its not a CZ (in either the sense that its made by one of the companies that CZs [CZ-BRNO or CZ-Strakonice]. or in the sense that a gun made in the CZ Republic qualifies it for the CZ nomenclature.)

Its apparently not a bad gun, but getting parts, etc., may be an issue.