CZ pistols.

[Tackleberry41]

for extra magazines which are better, Mec-Gar or Promag?

Pro mag is pretty much junk. You might get a decent one once in a while, but only after you buy several duds. Mecgar is factory for many guns. What I ordered for mine 2 mecgar 12rd. Ill buy a new recoil spring as I usually do for a used gun. Not gonna send it of to anybody for work, unless its broke. I didn't see anything wrong with the trigger as is.

[dragon813gt]

for extra magazines which are better, Mec-Gar or Promag?

OEM mags aren't expensive.

[FergusonTO35]

To their credit, I have always found Pro Mag single stack mags to work quite well. For awhile they were the only source of new mags for the Sig P225. They fit and fed flawlessly although some didn't always lock the slide back when empty which I can live with.

[opos]

My preference is MecGar....Ithink they are the oem for cz...I've had some issues with other calibers of pro mag in other makes so I don't go there unless I can't find something else.

[FergusonTO35]

When I had my P225 you could pay $50.00 for a used Sig mag or $15.00 for a new Pro Mag. I figured that even if some of the Pro Mags were duds that would be just fine for range use. The Pro Mags worked just fine for me.

[Tackleberry41]

I have bought promags, as sometimes its the only way to get one in hi cap. I have 3 of the 9 hi point ones, 2 work. I bought a Beretta 96 30rd mag when I got my Keltec SU2000, the 35yo 9mm surplus M9 mag worked, the promag refused to. It went back to the shop, where it along with the rest they had still hang on the wall. If the promags were free I might deal with the issues, paying for them, no. Never had an issue with a mecgar. I dont have 'range mags' a mag works, and thats 100%, or it goes in the trash.

[Combat Diver]

Don't have a CZ75 in .40 but have owned the following CZs.

CZ75 4 ea (all pre Bs)
CZ85 1 ea pre B
CZ83 1 ea 9x17
CZ50 4ea 7.65x17
CZ27 1 ea 7.65x17



Here is my EDC which was built in 81'


Bruce Nelson Summer Special he made for it in 88'


The CZ27 was purchased in Texas in the mid 80s but all the others I got while assigned to Bad Tolz West Germany between 88-90'. During the beginning of OIF in 03-04' we would find crates of CZ75s used by the Iraqi's (all pre Bs)


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[FergusonTO35]

When did the commercial CZ's start coming into the USA? I have read that the Tanfoglio copy got it's start because of an embargo that we had on them at the time.

[warboar_21]

I opted for the CZ 85 because it's ambidextrous controls. I'm a lefty so that was very attractive to me. The gun just feels so good in my hand and is very accurate.

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[Alstep]

I'm a 1911 guy, but I got a 9mm CZ75B last year, and it comes in a very close 2nd. Points and handles like a 1911. Have a couple thousand rounds through it now, and not a hickup. Totally reliable with ball and truncated cone cast boolits. Just have a problem with leading with cast right now, (started a thread on the subject) something I'll have to work out. Plastic guns just don't fit my hand and are punishing for me to shoot (arthritis & carpel tunnel). I have small hands and the safety is a reach for my thumb. No problem with Mec-gar magazines, got them on sale at Brownells. Don't hesitate to get one, go for it!

[Combat Diver]

When did the commercial CZ's start coming into the USA? I have read that the Tanfoglio copy got it's start because of an embargo that we had on them at the time.

Sometime in the mid 90s I think. Berlin wall came down in 89' and Germany reunited. Czechosolvakia spilt and the 75B came available.


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[FergusonTO35]

That makes sense. Springfield imported a CZ75 copy for awhle, don't know who made it. I remember it looked closer to the real thing than the Tanfoglio did.

[Combat Diver]

The Tanfoglio had a reputation for losing its sights IIRC. I remember a fellow SF troop that had one around 86' at Bragg that had that issue.


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[Tackleberry41]

My first look at a CZ-75 was in 1989, guy I knew in the marines had one. Guess somebody was importing them at the time since the wall had not fallen yet. They were pretty rare at the time. Not that I see alot of them now. And seems in rural areas like where I am now, its outside the usual so nobody wants them. One I put money down on has been there at least a year if not more. It was also the place that an HK33 sat in the rack for a while during the height of the sandy hook panic, when ANYTHING 223 and semi auto was hard to get. Not a century, but a real one, everybody here turned their nose up at it.

I knew somebody who had a tanfoglio, he hated it. It was the pickiest gun in the world when it came to ammo. He would buy a box to try, I would end up burning them thru my Browning HP copy. Then he would buy something else, I would use them up, it went on and on until he finally got rid of the gun. He never found an ammo the gun would feed reliably.

[Bullwolf]

Speaking of Tanfoglio pistols.

Here's my Tanfoglio TZ-75, wearing a CZ-75 Hogue rubber wrap around finger groove grip.



Notice that the de-cocker/safety is mounted on the slide, instead of on the frame.

Mine is also sporting a newer style slide stop pin from EAA in the pic. I like it better than the old dog-leg slide release lever anyhow. I've learned to keep a few spares around.




- Bullwolf

[putnro01]

The NOE I have is a 124gr TC. PB and GC.
The Mihec is the HG 275 clone, PB. Drops 127.

[skeettx]

FUN gun, shot my early TZ-75 this morning

[Virginia John]

I have shot the HP but I own the CZ in several calibers.

[T-Duck]

When I went looking for a 75 nobody in 100 miles had them. I finally found a 85b in town and bought it. That instantly became my favorite pistol to shoot.

[LAH]

The NOE I have is a 124gr TC. PB and GC.
The Mihec is the HG 275 clone, PB. Drops 127.

Thanks