Shooting my new CZ 75 B

[Sid]

I took my new pistol out to the range today with great anticipation. The first 50 rounds of hand-loads went through without a hitch. Then I switched to commercial ammo, Fiocchi with 115 grain FMJ bullet. They would not feed. All of the cartridges became hung up on the feed ramp. The very same thing happened when I tried CCI Blazer. So I went back to the hand-loads and had the same problem with them. Next week the gun goes back to the factory. I am extremely disappointed. One of the main reasons I chose the CZ was because of its legendary reliability.

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[jrhead75]

Sorry to hear that. Did you try different magazines? I've been carrying a PCR for several years now and it's still chugging along eating up everything I feed it. I did replace the mag springs with slightly heavier ones from Wolff, and the factory recoil spring with an 18 lb Wolff spring, just because they appeared a bit light to me.

Good luck with it...hope you'll keep us informed.

[Sid]

I posted my original message after I had just returned from the range. But when I field stripped the pistol for cleaning, I FOUND TO MY HORROR THAT THERE WAS A BULLET STUCK IN THE BORE! It was a lead bullet from the last hand-load I had shot. The primer had just enough force to drive the bullet so that the base of the bullet was just touching the very edge of the chamber. Had the bullet gone further up the barrel the result would have been catastrophic and I could have been seriously injured. I was lucky in that the obstruction just caused a feeding problem and prevented further firing of the pistol. Once again, this shows how careful we must be with our reloading procedures. This had happened to me once before about 25 years ago and I swore to myself that I would be more careful and never let it happen again. Obviously I slipped up somewhere along the line.

[joem]

My CZ 75B is in .40 cal. Never had a problem with commercial or my hand loads.

[HoosierDaddy]

I've put several thousand rounds through different CeeZees and have never had a problem.

[Fredtheobviouspseudonym]

I posted my original message after I had just returned from the range. But when I field stripped the pistol for cleaning, I FOUND TO MY HORROR THAT THERE WAS A BULLET STUCK IN THE BORE!. . . I swore to myself that I would be more careful and never let it happen again. Obviously I slipped up somewhere along the line.

Sid, I'd say you owe that CZ-75 a certain debt of gratitude.

Hope that when you've got it cleaned out it keeps on ticking properly.

[Ken The Kanuck]

I posted my original message after I had just returned from the range. But when I field stripped the pistol for cleaning, I FOUND TO MY HORROR THAT THERE WAS A BULLET STUCK IN THE BORE! It was a lead bullet from the last hand-load I had shot. The primer had just enough force to drive the bullet so that the base of the bullet was just touching the very edge of the chamber. Had the bullet gone further up the barrel the result would have been catastrophic and I could have been seriously injured. I was lucky in that the obstruction just caused a feeding problem and prevented further firing of the pistol. Once again, this shows how careful we must be with our reloading procedures. This had happened to me once before about 25 years ago and I swore to myself that I would be more careful and never let it happen again. Obviously I slipped up somewhere along the line.

Good on ya Sid for having enough balls to admit your mistake. It just might save one of our lives because you made us think about it a bit more.

I like my CZ 75 B too BTW. Need to buy the .22 conversion kit for it though.

KTK