Price check: CZ-75 Czech Police trade in

[jad0110]

To clarify, the $360 includes shipping and FFL fee. The price was actually $327.

So I'll be looking more at the B model, or a used DAO if I luck out and find one - I don't recall seeing them cataloged on the CZ site any longer. Basically, I'm looking for a steel 9mm, either straight SA (condition 1 carry) or straight DA. I've never done particularly well with DA/SA transition.

Just today a buddy of mine at work reminded me about the Hi Power (how could I have forgotten). Both feel great in my hands, better than any other full sized steel 9mms I've fired or handled. But I'm not sure which feels best. Guess I'll try them out and see what I think. I'll have to check out my local gun show in the next couple of weeks.

But watch me find a sweet used blue S&W revolver and come home with that instead; it is a sickness I tell you!

 

[Pilot]

Basically, I'm looking for a steel 9mm, either straight SA (condition 1 carry) or straight DA. I've never done particularly well with DA/SA transition.

You do know that the standard 75B is designed to be carried cocked and locked, condition one, right? You do not need to use the DA function at all if you don't want to. You can operate it as a single action only firearm just like the SA model, no transition required.

 

[Walt Sherrill]

So I'll be looking more at the B model, or a used DAO if I luck out and find one

Be sure you try the trigger on the DAO model BEFORE you buy. That notoriously long FIRST trigger pull is EVERY TRIGGER PULL with a DAO model.

People with small hands or short fingers need not apply.

(I had a full-size Sphinx with DAO, and it's a much smoother, somewhat lighter and MAYBE a bit shorter trigger pull than a CZ DAO, and it was more than I could cope with. I have long fingers and a relatively large hand.)

Any competent Gunsmith could convert a DA/SA CZ to DAO very quickly, if you can't find one -- you'd just have a safety that you didn't need installed...

 

[jad0110]

You do know that the standard 75B is designed to be carried cocked and locked, condition one, right? You do not need to use the DA function at all if you don't want to. You can operate it as a single action only firearm just like the SA model, no transition required.

Yep, I consider the DA/SA CZ to be straight SA for me because that's how I'd use it.

Be sure you try the trigger on the DAO model BEFORE you buy. That notoriously long FIRST trigger pull is EVERY TRIGGER PULL with a DAO model.

I plan on it; is the DA first shot of the B model the same as the DAO version?

I'm a revolver guy at heart, so I'm accustomed to DA triggers. Hence, my preference would be for a DAO CZ as the manual of arms would be most similar to my revolvers. Still, I've noted that Kahr DA triggers seem to have an even longer pull than what I'm used to. It's been a while since I've handled a CZ, is the pull longer than a typical S&W or Ruger revolver?

 

[CZguy]

It's been a while since I've handled a CZ, is the pull longer than a typical S&W or Ruger revolver?

I've never measured it, but it sure feels longer.

 

[Furncliff]

My S&W 15 has a terrific trigger, but I think it's longer than my 75b.

The trigger on the 75b is my only complaint. If I were to do it all over I would have a specialist do a job on it or buy a single action model. As it is I pulled the trigger on a snap cap a thousand times and it got smoother and smoother. I guess I've adapted I don't think about any more.

 

[Ash]

Earlier 75's, 1996 and earlier, come with good triggers. Later CZ triggers can be pretty gritty.

All of mine are pre 1996 for that reason - and I own both 75b's and the original models.

 

[Walt Sherrill]

Those of you with 75Bs and complaints about the first trigger pull: start from the half-cock notch.

With the firing pin safety mechanism, there is no danger (as the gun will fire ONLY if the trigger is pulled fully to the rear). The decocker models ALL start from the half-cock notch, and the internals are almost identical in the two types. (The decocker models have one less hammer hook, removed to make room for the decocker mechanism.)

Starting from half-cock will shorten the pull somewhat, and seem to lighten the trigger weight a small amount, too -- but that is probably more apparent than real (as the only real change will be the "geometry" of the pull, as the spring is the same.