CZ kadet .22 conversion kit vs other .22 pistol
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Even though the prices may be close between the kit and say a Ruger, I'm getting the kit for my CZsI'm looking for improvements in my shooting skills, not number of guns I own...
YMMV
I'm trying to decide myself what to do, I have a CZ 85 Combat. All the info I've found and all the advice I've received suggests I'm getting a Kadet Kit.
I have a Kadet Kit and a couple of Ruger Mk IIs. Latelhy, the Rugers have been left at home!. The Kadet Kit has found a home on one of my 75s and it goes out with most of the time. I like the feel of the cZ and shooting a .22 and a 9mm on the same frame is appealing and has reduced group size. The only down side is the high cost of magazines. If you are planning to purchase a Kadet Kit, verify that you will get two magazines as some people pull the second magazine out of the kit.
Can anyone verify this? I too have a "pre-B" I wouldn't mind putting a kit on if the price were right.
There is a very small amount of filing to do on the slide of the .22 conversion,it is minor,mine is very accurate and not to fussy!
I have the Kadet kit for my CZ-75B.
Bought it new from Wolverine.
You will have to file it to fit your pistol, take your time.
You can always file more off, but you can't file more on.
It takes about 30 seconds for the switch between 9mm & .22.
Feels the same when shooting, it has never had a single problem, whatever the ammo. Lots of fun to shoot.
Strips easy for cleaning.
If you shoot in Farnham, you can try mine, pm me.
Bought it new from Wolverine.
You will have to file it to fit your pistol, take your time.
You can always file more off, but you can't file more on.
It takes about 30 seconds for the switch between 9mm & .22.
Feels the same when shooting, it has never had a single problem, whatever the ammo. Lots of fun to shoot.
Strips easy for cleaning.
If you shoot in Farnham, you can try mine, pm me.
Although I've read nothing but great things about the Kadet kits, including this thread, I'm going to cut in on the Kadet love fest and post in favour of a separate gun instead of a conversion kit.
Early on I found it helped my shooting a lot to shoot a magazine or two of .22 then a magazine of 9mm, then back to the .22 and so on. Swapping calibers on the fly like this allowed me to immediately take the lessons on sighting, trigger stroke follow through and flinch control and apply it to the 9mm while it was still fresh in my muscle memory and thinking. For me the positive results of this unbroken flow was immediate.
But if I had to stop for a minute or two and switch the top end I don't know if the same flow would have been maintained. Not to mention that swapping the top end 4 to 8 times per practice session would have gotten old really fast. For me a separate pistol is the perfect option.
Now I know that the complete Kadet is not cheap but if you're serious about it wanting to feel the same as your 75 or other CZ line gun and want to be able to do this .22/9/.22/9 back and forth for each magazine then I'd say spend a bit more and get a complete Kadet. Or spend the cost of the kit and get something like a Browning Buckmark, Ruger 22/45 or S&W 22A. On the used side of the coin the S&W 422 I got used is a superb gun that allows easy transitions to my CZ Shadow.
Having said this in the past though it really does seem like this whole kit vs separate gun is sort of like discussing politics or sport teams. Everyone has THEIR favourite and no other option is the "right" one. The above was my own experience so take it for what you will. The one thing we obviously all agree on is that shooting .22 will help raise our skill level regardless of how it's done. The question is how soon do the .22 lessons gain fade once switched to shooting the 9mm. I found that once I went back to shooting the 9mm or .45 by the second magazine I would have lost a bit of the value and it was time to go back to some .22. Now this was far more benificial back when I was new to shooting. I'd like to think that I've learned my lessons but even now I find that if I'm getting a lot of flyers in a practice session it's benificial to pick up the trusty .22 and brush up on the lessons before going back to the centerfire stuff. For this sort of thing the kit would work just fine because you'd only be doing a few swaps. But for me I still prefer to just lay the separate .22 onto the mat.
Early on I found it helped my shooting a lot to shoot a magazine or two of .22 then a magazine of 9mm, then back to the .22 and so on. Swapping calibers on the fly like this allowed me to immediately take the lessons on sighting, trigger stroke follow through and flinch control and apply it to the 9mm while it was still fresh in my muscle memory and thinking. For me the positive results of this unbroken flow was immediate.
But if I had to stop for a minute or two and switch the top end I don't know if the same flow would have been maintained. Not to mention that swapping the top end 4 to 8 times per practice session would have gotten old really fast. For me a separate pistol is the perfect option.
Now I know that the complete Kadet is not cheap but if you're serious about it wanting to feel the same as your 75 or other CZ line gun and want to be able to do this .22/9/.22/9 back and forth for each magazine then I'd say spend a bit more and get a complete Kadet. Or spend the cost of the kit and get something like a Browning Buckmark, Ruger 22/45 or S&W 22A. On the used side of the coin the S&W 422 I got used is a superb gun that allows easy transitions to my CZ Shadow.
Having said this in the past though it really does seem like this whole kit vs separate gun is sort of like discussing politics or sport teams. Everyone has THEIR favourite and no other option is the "right" one. The above was my own experience so take it for what you will. The one thing we obviously all agree on is that shooting .22 will help raise our skill level regardless of how it's done. The question is how soon do the .22 lessons gain fade once switched to shooting the 9mm. I found that once I went back to shooting the 9mm or .45 by the second magazine I would have lost a bit of the value and it was time to go back to some .22. Now this was far more benificial back when I was new to shooting. I'd like to think that I've learned my lessons but even now I find that if I'm getting a lot of flyers in a practice session it's benificial to pick up the trusty .22 and brush up on the lessons before going back to the centerfire stuff. For this sort of thing the kit would work just fine because you'd only be doing a few swaps. But for me I still prefer to just lay the separate .22 onto the mat.
