You know, I never thought to check. I'd tried them in the P07 and P09 (I have lots of them loaded up, jugs/cans full) and didn't get decent accuracy. I grabbed a box of them to try in the Compact and just loaded them in the magazine and started shooting them.
I have ejected one or two, or maybe three?? over the last few days when I unloaded the pistol for make sure the new magazines locked the slide back, to do the pencil test, etc. The slide pulled back fine and none of them seemed to "stick" from being rammed into the barrel/lands. But again, I didn't really check the bullets over closely to see if there were any marks.
Hey, another excuse to take it out, admire it, dry fire, etc. Be right back.
The CZ 75 Compact doesn't have the pronounced barrel hood the P07/P09 do. And I can't see any brass when the bullets are chambered with the barrel in the slide.
115 grain Federal FMJ - drops right in, farther than my 115, 124 or 147 grain reloads.
My reloads, as stated, do not go into the chamber as deeply as the Federal factory FMJ ammo. Yet all chamber and extract fine. I'm not sure if the brass is a little tighter, or the bullet is hitting, say the end of the chamber? vs. the lands.
None of the cartridges, factory, reloads or even some snap cap (red aluminum ones) have the cartridge drop so far into the chamber that the base of the brass case is flush with the "barrel hood" that sticks out on the rear top of the chamber/barrel. I'm assuming this is just a characteristic of the 75 Compact since the barrels/slides are different than the P07/P09.
I may go shooting again tomorrow (trying to talk my youngest son into it. I'll shoot some 124's (Berry's Bullets) and 115 (Precision Delta) reloads and see how they compare to the 147's (Ranier Bullets).
I need to start reloading again now that decent temps and humidities are back and take the CZ 75 compact to the garage with me and do some experimenting.
