I've been a revolver shooter in the past, but didn't shoot for 19 years. I was good at it. Don't know why I stopped. Late last year I hauled out my old girlfriend. She's a blued 6" S&W 586 (no dash) Distinguished Combat Magnum named Missy. We went on a date to the range and shot up all my stock of 38 special and 357 magnum loads. Like, I don't know, 450 rounds. We were at the range for a whole afternoon. She was the only revolver all that time. I felt bad for her. BTW included in our menu choices that afternoon were my last 100 rounds of 38 special wadcutter that were manufactured in Yugoslavia and purchased at Walmart in Norman, OK for $5.95 a box of 50 back in the 1980s! No more Yugoslavia, we all know how that went, but the ammo was excellent.
SO...I needed more ammo, but then I decided -- maybe I needed to get a new girlfriend. Semi-automatic was necessary since I despeartely need to avoid being perceived as an old man with an even older gun. "OMG what is that?" "Is it a 22?" Then I had to decide. 9mm? 40? What? WHAT? So many choices. Saw the CZ-85 Combat and thought, "Yeah, that would be sweet." Then she caught my eye. Stainless. Something I'd made a rule about. Never again to have a firearm that wasn't made from stainless. Unless it's a .22 -- I can live with that.
Shopped the 'net and put together the deal for my new girlfriend about 2 weeks ago...she finally arrived at my dealer 2 days ago...we accomplished the FFL transfer yesterday afternoon and I brought Koko home. She's named after Koko Taylor. Video below if you don't know who that is. She's a woman. She's a ball of fire. She can change old to new. Also got a three-pack of mags from CZ-USA store and scored some ammo, but not much. More on order.
Meet Koko. She's still filthy from our date/workout earlier today. But it's good filth.
Shot 80 rounds today. Distance at about 7 yards. First target (annotated) was American Eagle 115 GR FMJ. Second target was 10 rounds SA as fast as the range allows (minimum 1 second between shots) of Speer +P 125 GR GDHP. The 7-ring is 3 inches. I do need a bit of work on my skillset to get where I used to be with the revolver and where I want to be again. That was also evident with the 586. My eyesight isn't what it was 19 years ago either. Must say that I love this CZ trigger. I did well over 500 dry fires both DA and SA into an old foam earplug blocking the firing pin last night, that was after a good cleaning and lubing up with moly. MY GOD the magazines were a GREASY MESS. Used hot water and dish soap to scrub it all out and then applied super-lube dri-film.
OK. I lied. The REAL first target was someone elses all shot up, but I got to my lane at the range right after the cease fire was over and the range opened up so I couldn't wait and fired four rounds at a clean spot on the old paper to see if the sights were close. BTW the factory "hit pattern data chart" shows the windage is a bit right also. Elevation seems pretty much right on at 7 yards though for both types of ammo.
Koko Taylor, RIPhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPh3zHwvGck
