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Over the weekend I took a two day course from Aaron Roberts using my CZ SP-01 Phantom with 124gr Speer Lawnman. Great course, great instructor. Anywho, I see this morning that the reliability of the CZs are being debated again, so I thought I would break down how the gun ran for me.
Over the weekend I had no failures to fire, extract or eject other than ones that were intentionally induced for a drill. None.
I did have a few times where the slide failed to lock on an empty magazine and a couple of times I had to strip a magazine out of the magwell. These last two I attribute entirely to the sand I was standing in at my shooting position. It was that fine powdery sand. You know, that kind that makes a puuh sound when a make drops into it. The kind of sand an empty mag sinks halfway into. I was wiping them all down on my pants when I picked them up... but after a while I was just wiping sand on sand. After a couple of reload drills, magazines were audibly grinding into the magwell on insertion. Didn't take any extra force to seat them, but it sounded horrible. Loading the mags up with new rounds was also producing a nice crunching grinding sound. I took the base plate off a few mags between drills and used a finger to wipe down the follower and the inside of the body a couple of times, but after another trip into the sand they were back to nasty.
When I stripped the gun down at the end of class there was sand everywhere inside. The trigger bar was coated, as was the mag latch bar, the decocker guts and the sear. Didn't stop the gun though.
Complaints: The texture on the front strap has tenderized my fingers. They'll get over it though. My right thumb is chewed up from the feed lips on one of my mags. I noticed that when I was stripping rounds out of that particular mag it was scoring the cases. That one got out of the factory a little too sharp.
If anyone is curious, I did the class with my duty rig, the holster of which is a Blade-Tech WRS that they built for my Phantom. (there's a great customer service story lurking there somewhere)
Magazines were CZ factory 18 rounders.
Oh, and for those of you wondering about the condition of the range, this wasn't Mr. Roberts range. He was kind enough to come to us and was teaching on a private range outside of Commanche.
Over the weekend I had no failures to fire, extract or eject other than ones that were intentionally induced for a drill. None.
I did have a few times where the slide failed to lock on an empty magazine and a couple of times I had to strip a magazine out of the magwell. These last two I attribute entirely to the sand I was standing in at my shooting position. It was that fine powdery sand. You know, that kind that makes a puuh sound when a make drops into it. The kind of sand an empty mag sinks halfway into. I was wiping them all down on my pants when I picked them up... but after a while I was just wiping sand on sand. After a couple of reload drills, magazines were audibly grinding into the magwell on insertion. Didn't take any extra force to seat them, but it sounded horrible. Loading the mags up with new rounds was also producing a nice crunching grinding sound. I took the base plate off a few mags between drills and used a finger to wipe down the follower and the inside of the body a couple of times, but after another trip into the sand they were back to nasty.
When I stripped the gun down at the end of class there was sand everywhere inside. The trigger bar was coated, as was the mag latch bar, the decocker guts and the sear. Didn't stop the gun though.
Complaints: The texture on the front strap has tenderized my fingers. They'll get over it though. My right thumb is chewed up from the feed lips on one of my mags. I noticed that when I was stripping rounds out of that particular mag it was scoring the cases. That one got out of the factory a little too sharp.
If anyone is curious, I did the class with my duty rig, the holster of which is a Blade-Tech WRS that they built for my Phantom. (there's a great customer service story lurking there somewhere)
Magazines were CZ factory 18 rounders.
Oh, and for those of you wondering about the condition of the range, this wasn't Mr. Roberts range. He was kind enough to come to us and was teaching on a private range outside of Commanche.
