I had written off the CZ 75 without ever touching one. I had seen them at gun shows, scrolled past them online, heard people talk about them with the kind of quiet enthusiasm that I mistook for nostalgia and I decided somewhere along the way that it was an old design for people who didn't want to move on. Well I was wrong about all of it.
A buddy of mine had been after me for months to just rent one and shoot it for an hour and stop having an opinion based on nothing. So one afternoon I walked up to the rental counter, paid for the gun and a box of ammo and figured I'd spend fifty rounds proving myself right.
The moment I got a grip on it I understood what I had been dismissing. The way it sits in the hand doesn't feel like most modern pistols. It feels lower, more natural, like the gun was built around the hand rather than the other way around. The trigger on the one I rented was smooth in double action and almost startlingly clean in single and I say that as someone who had convinced himself that CZ triggers were nothing special.
I ran the full box, then I went back to the counter and bought another. The groups were honest and consistent and I was shooting it well faster than I had any right to expect from a platform I had never touched before.
I own one now. It sits in the safe next to guns I spent a lot more time and money researching and it holds its own against every single one of them. The rental counter at a good range is the cheapest education you can buy. An hour and a box of ammo is a very small price to pay for finding out that you've been wrong about something for years.
A buddy of mine had been after me for months to just rent one and shoot it for an hour and stop having an opinion based on nothing. So one afternoon I walked up to the rental counter, paid for the gun and a box of ammo and figured I'd spend fifty rounds proving myself right.
The moment I got a grip on it I understood what I had been dismissing. The way it sits in the hand doesn't feel like most modern pistols. It feels lower, more natural, like the gun was built around the hand rather than the other way around. The trigger on the one I rented was smooth in double action and almost startlingly clean in single and I say that as someone who had convinced himself that CZ triggers were nothing special.
I ran the full box, then I went back to the counter and bought another. The groups were honest and consistent and I was shooting it well faster than I had any right to expect from a platform I had never touched before.
I own one now. It sits in the safe next to guns I spent a lot more time and money researching and it holds its own against every single one of them. The rental counter at a good range is the cheapest education you can buy. An hour and a box of ammo is a very small price to pay for finding out that you've been wrong about something for years.
