A rare batch of SP-01 Compacts available

[Scarlett Pistol]

Single Action Only Conversion Videos:

I had recorded these a while ago, but just didn't get them edited and uploaded with the first large batch of tutorial videos. I know converting to Single Action Only has come up a few times on here, so here's the quote of the thread where I was housing this video tutorial playlist. Hope this helps whomever may be interested in doing this.

I made two videos about converting to Single Action Only. One is more just an explanation of what to do and how it works. The other actually walks through a conversion. I know this comes up pretty often on the forum so hopefully these can be a helpful reference.

The video just explaining Single Action Only conversion - (think high level explanation):
https://youtu.be/lv-FkhbZWRA

The video walking through the steps of converting to Single Action Only:
https://youtu.be/LnixFxN6Kec

[rhart]

Nice job.

[Scarlett Pistol]

Nice job.

Thanks, hope these help. Like I mentioned, I will keep putting out what I already produced and make news ones when I get requests. I ordered a fiber optic front site and the CGW bushing for one of mine, so I am going to record those as well. Those will be down the pipe line a bit unless there is some overwhelming response for them.

BTW If anyone has requests go to that thread and let me know.

[wormraper]

soooooooooooooooooo, umm. I got to shoot one of my two today.... holy !@##e, I'm in love. took me a couple of mags to get used to the dinky little sights, but I was hitting targets at 15 and 20 yards consistently. near the end I had gotten to the point where I couldn't miss. The gun had more recoil than I had hyped it up to to be, but that thing DOESN'T kick very much at ALL. Only thing I have to complain about is

A. sights. Might throw on the fiber optic front if I can sometime down the road. Pretty cheap and easy mod I believe.

B. I was getting some finger slap from the trigger. my trigger finger had a bit of an ache from it popping back so hard. Nothing wild, just a minor complaint.

if this is how all CZ's shoot, I'm f@cked. like 1911 f@cked

one really nice thing. I know the slide stop for a right handed person is hard to hit with just your thumb, but for a lefty like me, it's in the PERFECT spot to just reach my trigger finger forward and release the slide when I pop in a new mag. Not to mention that the slide strop is pretty meaty and is really easy for my finger to get a purchase on, unlike some other brands *cough*M&Ps*cough* that I use regularly

[milq]

A. sights. Might throw on the fiber optic front if I can sometime down the road. Pretty cheap and easy mod I believe.


if this is how all CZ's shoot, I'm f@cked. like 1911 f@cked.

Welcome, I'm told we have cookies....but I'm yet to see them.
1911s and CZs are the only guns I have multiples of. I own a glock, an HK, a Kahr, etc. but only one of each. (Unless we count S&W revolvers...but they're different barrel lengths and calibers....so I'm not counting them!)
Seriously though, I'm very happy with my purchase of the same pistol with the exception of the sights - which wasn't a surprise. I'm leaning toward a gold outline tritium with a custom U-notch rear. The weight did surprise me a bit, I knew it wouldn't be P-01 weight but didn't expect 2 ounces less than SP-01.

Oh, nice job with the videos Scarlett!

[wormraper]

yeah, I'm BAD hooked on 1911s, so this is not a good sign for my wallet


as for sights, I'm probably only going to swap out the front sight. is installing a fiberoptic (like the dawsons) that hard? I see it's not like my glock or walthers where all you do is take out out a set screw, but is there any "fitting" or filing that needs to be done or is a fiber optic change out pretty much plug and play?

[milq]

I installed one from CGW on a Tristar in the past, it already had the hole drilled so that was nice. It did require very minimal fitting, just ran the bottom across a course stone a few times, no filing was needed.
Some require you to drill the hole in the sight once it's installed (#47 drill), which I can see going badly if you aren't very careful.

[wormraper]

I installed one from CGW on a Tristar in the past, it already had the hole drilled so that was nice. It did require very minimal fitting, just ran the bottom across a course stone a few times, no filing was needed.
Some require you to drill the hole in the sight once it's installed (#47 drill), which I can see going badly if you aren't very careful.

yeah, that's what I was wondering. I see CZ custom has some dawson fibers, I'll ask if the hole is there or needs to be drilled

[2tango2]

If you get the Bogie grips let us know.  They are described as aggressive but I'm thinking of a set in blue for my PCR.  They look great


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[seaswol]

I installed one from CGW on a Tristar in the past, it already had the hole drilled so that was nice. It did require very minimal fitting, just ran the bottom across a course stone a few times, no filing was needed.
Some require you to drill the hole in the sight once it's installed (#47 drill), which I can see going badly if you aren't very careful.

Yes it can go badly.  Right now my 85 Combat is using a piece of a #47 HS drill bit as a pin. I really do like the sights that have the area on the sight pre-drilled (grouved).
Chris

[Tyerone]

I thought for sure that I wanted to swap in a FO sight shortly after getting my first CZ and those tiny sights, but they've grown on me over time and once I learned to ignore the dots, yeah buddy!

[Boogalou]

I saw this thread last Saturday and by the next day had read the entire thing.  Ordered one on Monday and picked it up today.  I'm impressed and my initial reaction is that it feels more balanced and allows me a better grip then my PCR. 

Thanks Scarlett for your work on getting the word out on this pistol!

[RSR]

In concerns about quantity available of these, thought it might be good to look at serial # ranges. 

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If others want to share higher/lower than these it might help to identify actual quantity produced and/or available.  But if these are overruns, etc, not all of the ranges we see on serials may in fact be stateside...  Regardless, would be good info nonetheless.

Low thus far shared is C0720xx.
High thus far shared is C0777xx.
That's an ~5700 number range.

Guns at C0720xx, C0732xx, C0734xx, C0735xx, C0753xx, C0767xx, & CO777xx.

Updated below:

Low thus far shared is C0720xx.
High thus far shared is C0955xx.
That's an ~23,500 number range.

Guns at C0720xx, C0732xx, C0734xx, C0735xx, C0750xx, C0753xx, C0767xx, CO777xx, & C0955xx.

[RSR]

And the one shown on the CZC page is CZ095xxx. As one will notice by looking at current CZUB production, all their firearm models appear to share the same serial number sequence unlike the old days with a different model having its own numbering sequence. This current range will give you an idea of overall production and proofing going on at CZUB for a general period for all models and makes it difficult to identify the production run total for a specific model. It's still an interesting exercise to see.

I thought that was how the serial numbers worked. So to be clear for others and to verify I understand correctly as well. Let's say CZ UB has 10 manufacturing lines up and running today. Today they are producing 2,000 total serialized items (to keep it simple for the example serial numbers 80,000 to 82,000). Today 300 of the SP-01 Compacts will be finished within those 2,000 daily serialized items. So, they will get one of those serial numbers, sequentially, as they reach that point in production today.

This is opposed to saying that 1,600 SP-01 Compacts were produced in total. Therefore, they got serial numbers 80,000 through 81,600. Am I correct that this is NOT how it works, and the first example is the way serial numbers are assigned in CZ UB production?

I am ashamed to say I don't own enough CZ pistols to know for certain... 

The US and Czech Republic/EU likely have different serial number laws.  I believe they have to be applied at different stages depending.  So there's that.  And it might just be something odd like every barrel is required to be serialized, etc.  May not be a whole gun.
The other thing is whether their is any requirement of sequential numbering/allocation, or if there's going to be a run of X number of guns of given model over a week/month/year/ever/etc is the manufacturer able to block off and produce in segments based in model or are they numbered based sequential production runs based on whichever point of the process that is required.

[RSR]

I saw this thread last Saturday and by the next day had read the entire thing.  Ordered one on Monday and picked it up today.  I'm impressed and my initial reaction is that it feels more balanced and allows me a better grip then my PCR. 

Thanks Scarlett for your work on getting the word out on this pistol!

Was it with a loaded mag or both empty?  I have a couple Sig P228s and I'm guessing they likely balance similarly...  With fully to partially loaded mags they balance great.  As ammo weight in grip reduces the balance of the weapon changes...