…well, unless you’re Czech. Or Canadian. It’s the CZ 122 Sport. It’s marked with the logo of CZ-UB and appears to owe nothing to the CZ-75. It’s just an attractive, modern .22 target pistol. (Look how low the bore axis is!) A few of these were imported about ten years ago… to Canada. None to the Great Red White and Blue South. So they have more to gloat … [Read more...]
Short answer — beats us with a stick. And we've been studying this for a while. Here is a very preliminary, rough and incomplete hack at the problem in mindmap form. As you can see, there are several ways to look at it: are the guns copies, clones, or inspired? The taxonomy is complex. Even breaking it down by nationality is difficult, as company names come and go. It all … [Read more...]
In accordance with longstanding European gunmaker custom, CZ ships a test target with its pistols. These seem ridiculously simple, but there are enough people asking about them in online forums that we thought we’d explain them. We usually have a few CZs with boxes and paperwork around the house… Don’t get too excited, they’re not NIB old stock (well, most of them … [Read more...]
The Cold war was anything but. A rapid series of conflicts that spread across the globe created a massive market for new and innovative weapons. It gave us some of the best firearms in the world. One of them was the CZ 75. One of the most cloned firearms in the world, used around the world, still comes perfect from the Czech Republic. CZ as a company has spread their wings and … [Read more...]
This week's Photo Friday features one of my personal favorites: the CZ-75 BD Police 9mm pistol. And, for kicks and giggles, the video above features the CZ-75 BD Police shooting in slow motion. (I'm still learning to film in high speed with the Sony NEX FS700 camera.) Hope you enjoy it! … [Read more...]
