Saturday, December 28, 2019

I Don't Like Working on CZ-75s

I took my CZ-75B SA apart yesterday afternoon.  Today, I polished the trigger bow and sides of the hammer.  I reduced the hammer hooks some, and changed the sear angle a bit.  Good news is that I got the pull weight down a few ounces.  Bad news is that there's still pretty much the same amount of creep, and the hammer still cams back when I pull the trigger.  I'm going to have to take it apart, cut the hammer some more, and get it all back together again.  I will probably hold off on the sear angle until after I check to see if the hammer/sear engagment is even on both sides.

I'm not looking forward to this.  There are a lot of little parts and springs and pins in these Czech pistols.

I've worked on 10/22s, AR-15s, and AKs.  I even managed to take an M1 Garand apart, and get it back together properly a couple times.  I've done trigger jobs on a good half a dozen Glocks and a couple 1911s, and replaced the leaf hammer springs in Colt and S&W revolvers.  The CZ-75 wins for being the most fiddly and frustrating auto to work on, and my single-action doesn't even have a decocker, which I'm told are even more fiddly and frustrating than the thumb safety pistols.