I'm trading in my CZ75B SA for a CZ97 B DA. It's a long story.
My handgun ownership started with a Steyr M9 mostly because I liked the looks. In Canada it comes with an extended barrel (115 mm), so I had this cut back to the minimum of 106 mm. Very nice to look at. Very hot to handle. Since it only weighs 28 oz it practically leaps out of your hand when fired. Good luck shooting it accurately.
This caused me to go to the other extreme, a Para-Ordnance P14-45. Nice and easy to shoot, accurate and heavy. What's not to like? Takedown involves a plastic wrench and keep things well away from your eyes as the spring tension is intense. I have dints in the ceiling of the mud room to prove it. The real issue, however, was that I got a lot of blowback in the gun. This started with discolouration of the casings and carried on back into the trigger and grip; dirt everywhere. Also the frame rails are really close together so they're hard to clean. Off it went to someone with a greater talent for gun cleaning than I have.
Next was the CZ75 B SA. A lovely gun with a lousy trigger. Not only was it gritty, it was two stage (this is a SA remember) and had considerable hammer camming, at least a 1/16 of an inch! I can guess why they made it feel like a DA; so police administrators wouldn't freak out, but it was awful. A Ghost trigger and hammer solved that problem.
What they didn't solve was the simple fact a 9mm round comes out hot and fast and snaps the wrist. I've been trying to figure out what the original reason for the Parabellum round was and I think what George Luger was getting at was trading weight for power. A smaller bullet moving faster would reduce the weight of ammo boxes or increase the number of cartridges per weight; a nice idea when every ounce counts out in the mud of WW1. Not a great idea if you're trying to get ten shots into a slow fire target centre circle.
So, as I say, I'm trading the 75 for a 97. I expect the worst in the trigger department since this isn't a pseudo DA, it is a DA. But hope is at hand. I've found -- maybe the last person on this board to know this -- a company in BC that will sell me a SA trigger for a 97B with a guaranteed 3 1/2 pull, Dlask Arms Corp in Delta.
I feel like I'm getting closer to truth and beauty and ten rounds in four inches.
My handgun ownership started with a Steyr M9 mostly because I liked the looks. In Canada it comes with an extended barrel (115 mm), so I had this cut back to the minimum of 106 mm. Very nice to look at. Very hot to handle. Since it only weighs 28 oz it practically leaps out of your hand when fired. Good luck shooting it accurately.
This caused me to go to the other extreme, a Para-Ordnance P14-45. Nice and easy to shoot, accurate and heavy. What's not to like? Takedown involves a plastic wrench and keep things well away from your eyes as the spring tension is intense. I have dints in the ceiling of the mud room to prove it. The real issue, however, was that I got a lot of blowback in the gun. This started with discolouration of the casings and carried on back into the trigger and grip; dirt everywhere. Also the frame rails are really close together so they're hard to clean. Off it went to someone with a greater talent for gun cleaning than I have.
Next was the CZ75 B SA. A lovely gun with a lousy trigger. Not only was it gritty, it was two stage (this is a SA remember) and had considerable hammer camming, at least a 1/16 of an inch! I can guess why they made it feel like a DA; so police administrators wouldn't freak out, but it was awful. A Ghost trigger and hammer solved that problem.
What they didn't solve was the simple fact a 9mm round comes out hot and fast and snaps the wrist. I've been trying to figure out what the original reason for the Parabellum round was and I think what George Luger was getting at was trading weight for power. A smaller bullet moving faster would reduce the weight of ammo boxes or increase the number of cartridges per weight; a nice idea when every ounce counts out in the mud of WW1. Not a great idea if you're trying to get ten shots into a slow fire target centre circle.
So, as I say, I'm trading the 75 for a 97. I expect the worst in the trigger department since this isn't a pseudo DA, it is a DA. But hope is at hand. I've found -- maybe the last person on this board to know this -- a company in BC that will sell me a SA trigger for a 97B with a guaranteed 3 1/2 pull, Dlask Arms Corp in Delta.
I feel like I'm getting closer to truth and beauty and ten rounds in four inches.
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