The first double action shot is still a stretch, but only if I choose to carry the gun in DA/SA mode. BUL managed to make a 16-round polymer grip slim and trim, like it was made for me. And I say that as a dude with a serious man-crush on the Springfield Armory XD, and who has learned to tolerate GLOCKs, especially after a little custom grip work. This is the best-fitting high-capacity 9mm pistol I’ve ever held. Most grips are too big for adequate control and I struggle reaching the trigger for that first double-action pull. Thanks to short, fat fingers, I’ve always struggled with high-capacity, double action/single action pistols. My Cherokee is apparently of 2000-2005 manufacture it lacks the dustcover, Picatinny rail and finger grooved grip post 2005 manufactured Cherokees possess. There has been some recent anecdotal evidence of this on the Military Arms Channel’s YouTube video testing of the CZ P07. Some maintain that the slide-inside-frame-rails design keeps dirt and debris out of the gun better than the traditional setup, thereby increasing reliability in adverse conditions. Those who use the hand-over slide racking technique take note: you need to practice with the Cherokee. On the downside, because the slide sits down inside the frame so much, there’s less area to grasp and operate the slide. That allows for a low bore axis, which in turn means less muzzle flip. The CZ-75 design is unique the slide rides inside the frame rails. This is another test I conduct on all semi-auto pistols to determine how well the slide is fitted to the barrel, which can be a pretty good indicator of accuracy. I can’t usually spin the Spinner right away with an unfamiliar gun (I’m looking at you again, FNS).Īnd when I press down on the Cherokee’s barrel hood with the slide in battery, there is absolutely no movement. That requires some marksmanship, smooth transitioning and a gun with a decent trigger. The SA trigger is good enough that, the first time I fired the gun, I had no trouble spinning my MGM Targets Spinner over center at 20 yards without a miss. The single action trigger breaks at just under 4½ pounds, with a bit of creep. I couldn’t measure the DA pull weight it maxed out my scale before it broke (the DA trigger pull is a non-issue for me, but more about that later). The Cherokee has a very smooth, non-stagey double action trigger pull. I’ve sent new, otherwise well-built guns down the road because of crappy bangswitches that I can’t remedy myself (FNS, I’m looking at you). I’ve been shooting long enough that I won’t abide a poor trigger. The frame sports a beavertail, which protects my fat hand from hammer bite. It’s certainly not as aggressively grippy as a skateboard-taped GLOCK, and my sweaty mitts wouldn’t mind seeing a little more grippy checkering on the Cherokee. The grip frame is lightly checkered on the front and back straps, while the side panels have mixed cobblestone and checkered texture. The fixed front sight is permanently milled out of the slide, with a white-painted dot. The Novak-style snag-free rear sight was probably drift adjustable at one point due to the aftermarket finish over top of it, is probably set for good. I changed out the butter-soft, worn recoil spring for a new Wolff spring. I got two magazines with the pistol, one factory 16-rounder and one aftermarket (manufacturer unknown) 15-rounder. Anyway, my Cherokee’s not winning any beauty contests.Īt some point in its life, the slide, sights and some of the controls were refinished in OD green, and some of that has chipped away. The handgun looks so much like an older-style polymer framed Witness, I suspect BUL contracted with Tanfoglio to manufacture the Cherokee’s frames (and slides?). I should say, a Tanfoglio/EAA Witness clone (a clone of a clone?). Armalite got in on the CZ-75 game for a while with the AR24.Ībout a year ago, I acquired a well-used full size polymer-framed BUL Cherokee manufactured by BUL Transmark in Tel Aviv. by CZ-USA - there’s the Italian Tanfoglio, the IWI Jericho 941 (formerly imported by Magnum Research as the Baby Eagle, and before that imported as… the Jericho 941… my head hurts), Canik of Turkey’s Tristar clones, and the high-end Swiss Sphinx. Besides the original Czech CZ - imported into the U.S. The CZ-75 design is almost as ubiquitous as the John Moses Browning’s 1911 (I said almost). Despite decades-long admiration, I never owned a CZ-75. A buddy in college had purchased a Magnum Research Baby Eagle 9mm (another Israeli CZ-75-based pistol). I remember the first time I fired a CZ-75 variant. I’m also a huge fan of the venerable, reliable CZ-75 design. I figure a country that’s been surrounded by enemies bent on its destruction since its founding ought to know a thing or two about building small arms.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |