After many days and weeks of deliberating with myself over the purchase, and with the excellent help from you fine folks, I bought a CZ P-09 this weekend. Sootch and Hickok45 both have very nice videos of this gun on YouTube, and they helped encourage me that it was going to be a good fit for my purposes. And it is, or at least it seems to be.
I shot a few hundred rounds through it on Saturday. Even 19 round mags go quickly when you're having fun! It's very comfortable to shoot. The interchangeable backstraps make customizing the fit and feel pretty easy. I'm using the largest, but I may try the medium. It has nice checkering on the front and the back straps, and some checkering on the sides of the frame as well, above the trigger guard, as a memory spot for your thumb and trigger finger. I really like those bits of texture on the frame. The slide itself is quite heavy, and has cocking serrations on the front and on the back. The sights are 3-dot targer sights and the rear is drift adjustable.
I really like the decocker. One of the things that drew me to this gun was the Omega trigger system, and the ability to swap between a decocker and a manual thumb safety. I think I like the decocker. The DA first pull (if you have decocked it) is heavy, but smooth. Subsequent SA pulls are short and fairly light.
The fit and finish of the gun are excellent. Look at the machining in the slide, and that polishing on the feed ramp. It does feel like a very sturdy duty weapon.
My first few magazines produced great results at the range, at least for me. I shot a "duel" with my friend, who is a much more experienced shooter. I'd take a shot at my target, then he'd take a shot at his, etc. My first two were in the 2" red bulleye, from 30 feet. Six of my ten shots were within the 2" red bullseye. I had four "fliers", but those were still within the next two rings. I was loving that.
I had set out to buy a P-01. I was even already shopping grips for it. But I decided that this purchase was really a "tool" gun, one that I'd like to holster carry and shoot at the range and be more "active" with. I figured the polymer frame would be more resistant to wear than the painted aluminum frame of the P-01. I love the classic lines of the CZ 75, and was actually intending to buy one of THOSE initially, but was looking at the P-01 as a "compromise" between a gun with those classic lines and one with a rail (and the SP-01 as well). I do think I will eventually buy a CZ 75 in stainless as a "cool/fun" gun down the road. But for this purchase, I figured a "duty" pistol would be most appropriate, and boy, it really does shoot nice.
I shot a few hundred rounds through it on Saturday. Even 19 round mags go quickly when you're having fun! It's very comfortable to shoot. The interchangeable backstraps make customizing the fit and feel pretty easy. I'm using the largest, but I may try the medium. It has nice checkering on the front and the back straps, and some checkering on the sides of the frame as well, above the trigger guard, as a memory spot for your thumb and trigger finger. I really like those bits of texture on the frame. The slide itself is quite heavy, and has cocking serrations on the front and on the back. The sights are 3-dot targer sights and the rear is drift adjustable.
I really like the decocker. One of the things that drew me to this gun was the Omega trigger system, and the ability to swap between a decocker and a manual thumb safety. I think I like the decocker. The DA first pull (if you have decocked it) is heavy, but smooth. Subsequent SA pulls are short and fairly light.
The fit and finish of the gun are excellent. Look at the machining in the slide, and that polishing on the feed ramp. It does feel like a very sturdy duty weapon.
My first few magazines produced great results at the range, at least for me. I shot a "duel" with my friend, who is a much more experienced shooter. I'd take a shot at my target, then he'd take a shot at his, etc. My first two were in the 2" red bulleye, from 30 feet. Six of my ten shots were within the 2" red bullseye. I had four "fliers", but those were still within the next two rings. I was loving that.
I had set out to buy a P-01. I was even already shopping grips for it. But I decided that this purchase was really a "tool" gun, one that I'd like to holster carry and shoot at the range and be more "active" with. I figured the polymer frame would be more resistant to wear than the painted aluminum frame of the P-01. I love the classic lines of the CZ 75, and was actually intending to buy one of THOSE initially, but was looking at the P-01 as a "compromise" between a gun with those classic lines and one with a rail (and the SP-01 as well). I do think I will eventually buy a CZ 75 in stainless as a "cool/fun" gun down the road. But for this purchase, I figured a "duty" pistol would be most appropriate, and boy, it really does shoot nice.
