Well, that is a pretty good chunk of money, but I believe that he said that was for a lot of extras. Here's a quote from the original post:
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...I got the action job super deluxe: Angus Hammer, Angus trigger, MGW Custom hard sear, Wolff extractor and 19# main springs. Stoned, deburred & polished all action parts and on and on. Folks, I gotta tell ya - this gun is the bee's knees. Crisp 2-1/2 lb trigger with very little pretravel, no overtravel and absolutely zero creep...
Miossi charges much less than that for a regular action job. Regular means that he uses the parts that came with the gun, where in this case a lot of after market parts were used.
Here's a quote from Miossi's page where he describes his action job workover:
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Trigger Job vs. Action Job
Trigger jobs and action jobs differ in many ways. A trigger job for most gunsmiths only involves stoning the proper angles on the sear and hammer, lowering the hammer hooks and changing out the mainspring. Once the desired pull weight and let off are achieved they are done.
An action job involves all moving parts of the gun, deburing the frame and parts, removing tool marks and then polishing all the parts. The last thing done on an action job is to stone the sear and hammer, lowering the hammer hooks and changing out the mainspring if desired. This includes the firing pin and firing pin block, hammer strut, trigger and trigger bar, disconnector, pins, hammer sides, and sear sides. All of these parts need a lower friction coefficient for a smoother feeling trigger pull and to ensure that nothing is hindering or taking away the full force of the actual strike of the firing pin against the chambered round. A trigger job is easy and not all that time consuming but an action job requires attention to the smallest detail and is very time consuming and labor intensive.
There is a big difference between the two, and we only do action jobs. Make sure that your gun gets a true action job, whoever does the work.
And a price quote from his webpage for the action jobs:
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Action Job with stock parts labor only * $95.00
Action Job with Miossi Gun Works Custom Hard Sear labor only * 135.00
Install extra power extractor spring and tune extractor $20.00
Install sights labor only $25.00
Convert to SA with out action job labor only $50.00
Smooth & radius trigger $15.00
Bevel Mag well & cold blue $35.00
* tune extractor and install extra power extractor spring included
So in answer to your question, I probably wouldn't spend $270 for an action job, but then again, I wouldn't be ordering all of the add-ons that the original poster got, either. As for Jim's work, I haven't seen it, but he comes VERY highly recommended, also he's one of the few people who specialize in CZ's. If I were to have him do work for me, I'd almost certainly spring for the action job with the custom sear for $135.00. I'd say that would be money well spent, especially if you shoot your gun a whole lot, where sear wear would be a factor.
Standard disclaimers apply: I don't know Jim Miossi. I've never seen his work, but I did stay in a Holiday Inn Express once.
P. S. You can view Jim's webpage and learn all of this for yourself here:
www.miossigunworks.com/
