Zastava CZ-99, $575. 9mm & 40S&W, Please Discuss.

Would you buy one of these in the next six months?

  • Yes, In 9mm.

    Votes: 89 31.6%
  • Yes, In 40S&W

    Votes: 50 17.7%
  • No, no plans to buy any more pistols in the next 6 months.

    Votes: 25 8.9%
  • No, not interested in this model.

    Votes: 115 40.8%
  • Not licenced/Don't own handguns.

    Votes: 3 1.1%

  • Total voters
    282
USP9;
You might say I work at Marstar I own the company....

I might mention that we have worked extensively in the former Yugoslavia since 1984.... Been there more than 100 times....

We did a lot of product developement with Zastava at various times.... They produced many firearms for us, both military and civilian....

In the early to mid 1990s we had many prototypes developed at Zastava, handguns, rifles, etc.... Among them our dual caliber CZ-99 or as we called it the MCZ-99 (M for Marstar)

We did testing both here (Canada) at in Yugoslavia. Numerous changes were made to the original design over a period of about two years....

I am not aware on what TD Arms did at that tme, so I cannot offer any opinion or information....

I have notes someplace, if memory serves me it was something in the order of 15,000rds before we had any failure (Extractor) a further 10,000rds before we had another problem (Firing pin)

ONE THING TO NOTE here our design specified a very special alloy for the barrel and the expected barrel life was in excess of 50,000rds.... The barrels were of the same high chrome alloy as those for MGs being produced at the time.... They were expensive at the time, I can't imagine them being produced with the same alloy today....

I can have our photographer shoot some pictures if you are interested.

Regards
John
 
DECKARD;
We all know the country is much safer without these vicious weapons being allowed out among us peasants....

MERRY CHRISTMAS regardless
John
 
Had one a few years ago, in 9mm, came complete with standard tritium sights.
Was a very nice gun, well made and service capable. The mags were clones for the sig's, apart from the latching cut. Frame was alloy with a replaceable steel locking block and a ramp/cam barrel locking system.
Very easy takedown and cleaning.
Had the bad idea of selling it... Now, a .40 S&W one could be interesting.
PP.
 
Sorry JOHNONE! I had no idea :)

Every time I hear about Marstar I remember that I was stupid enough not to buy one of those Yugo M-57 with a crest on it (highly collectible) and instead I paid almost $1100 for a Glock 17 which I don't shoot anymore and that's just like million other Glocks out there. That brings back painful memories :(

Can I quote you on what you posted about CZ 99???

I am SOOOO interested in the CZ 99 pics you have! In return, here is a pic of my collection of Zastava CZ 99 family pistols (sorry about the quality):

allCZ.jpg

Left to right: CZ 99, three CZ 999 Scorpion, two CZ 05
 
I am in the market for a 9mm - and SIG clone with ambi controls are just what I'm looking for. The price is about right too. I was really close to buying a SIG 220 in 9mm (european) but, since I'm a lefty this pistol will fit the bill. Yeah, I'll take one. what's the warranty/service going to be like?
 
DECKARD;
They are a very good pistol, I was in on the early stages of developement, we are the people that came up with the two calibers in one pistol....

They have several features that are above the SIG....

I have several examples of pre-production models....

We ran some for tens of thousands of rounds at the local ammo factory just too see what would happen, how long it would take to fail....

Several factors came into play, the ten years of civil war, embargos, etc, etc,
ever rising cost on our version of the pistol, we simply gave up.
John
 
DECKARD;
It had a lot going for it, however at the time we were looking at very high production costs with the dollar at $1.40 so it became too costly....
As others have pointed out, in the $500. range you are competing against some of the "major" names.
But YES it is a fine pistol
John
 
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