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Offline uglybaby

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Cz85 or Cz75bd?
« on: December 28, 2005, 07:53:31 AM »
Hello all.  My first time to this board and I cant believe I've never found it before.  I have been a fan of Sig Sauer/Sig Arms for quite a while but after a recent trip to my wife's inlaws in CZ where I was able to shoot some CZ's I do believe I would like to purchase one.  The only problem I'm having is that I can't decide between a 85 with the ambi controls or a 75bd with the decocker.  I am used to the decockers found on Sigs and don't really feel comfortable with lowering the hammer on a loaded chamber.  I also am a lefty and would love to have a gun with lefty safety and slide controls.  So basically I am kinda stuck on the issue of decocker and also drop free mags.  What to do?  Your advice is appreciated.
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Cz85 or Cz75bd?
« Reply #1 on: December 28, 2005, 08:44:42 AM »
Any fullsize CZ can have drop-free mags, by bending the mag brake so that it presses against the hammer spring instead of the mag.  Instructions for doing that can be found in numerous places here on the Forum.

Your reservations about not having a decocker are shared by many, but as as a number of us here on the forum are quick to note, decocking a gun manually is a basic gun-handling skill that anyone with a gun should be able to master, easily.  

Folks used single-action revolvers for generations and didn't shoot themselves while decocking.

Guns with decockers really don't need ambi-controls (except, perhaps the mag release): you can decock with the off-hand during any lull in activity.  

The BD doesn't have an ambidextrous or reversible mag release.  

Some of the other CZs with decockers, while not having ambidextrous mag releases, can have the mag release reversed -- all of the "compact" decocker models -- pcr/compact D, p-01, 40P -- can be reversed.

Rather than repeat all the arguments here, a number of recent messages elsewhere on the forum address decocker models versus cocked and locked models, and the relative merits of each.  There are good instructions of how to safely decock manually, too.

Read through the recent messages in other clubs.