Questions - any idea who makes the mags that come with the pistol, any issue with the reliability with Mec-gar mags, confirmation that the pricing was right?
Over the years, CZ made OEM mags, Pro-Mag made CZOEM mags, and more recently Mec-Gar made CZ OEM mags for some models. I'm suspect that other mag makers have made CZ OEM mags, too. But it really doesn't matter, if they're made to CZ specs.
If I'm looking for CZ mags, I'll generally look for Mec-Gar first, as they are top quality and generally less expensive than CZ factory mags. (The only exception would be mags for the Pre-B models, but older CZ factory mags in 10 and 15 round capacities always worked in the several pre-Bs that I owned. That was not the case with Mec-Gar mags.)
(I picked up some CZ 10-round factory mags from CDNN about 10-years ago and they were marked exactly LIKE all of the other factory mags I've seen on the tube and on the packaging. But if you flipped the sheet in the package over, you could see on the bottom, that they were made by Pro-Mag. They were identical to other CZ 10-round factory mags I had, and they were as durable and reliable as any of them. Pro-Mag can do a good job if they have to.)
For a while, during the magazine ban (Clinton Administration) Pro-Mag made some mag for the CZ-75B compact in .40 -- a gun that CZ announced but never released in that form -- and those mags held 14-rounds of 9mm, and a bunch of us here on the forum snapped them up and used them in our 9mm compact CZs. They worked well. They were as good or better than the CZ mags, and as durable, and held one extra round than the CZ mag which held 13-rounds. We found that they were LEGAL, too, and had an ATF letter ruling to that effect. I haven't seen any of those Pro-Mag magazine for sale for a long time, but if you run into them, they're worth the purchase. (They've always been cheaper than CZ factory mags or Mec-Gars.)
