Shadow 2 is a way better set up pistol out of the box, believe all the shadow 2’s are nitrite coated and the the lower is poly coated after that, don’t think that holds true of the shadow believe they are just poly coated. The shadow 2 is awesome out of the box trigger wise and you can always go further and make it what you want [emoji106] of coarse the accu shadow is a darn nice pistol out of the box as well but cost a bundle [emoji106] hope that helps I am no expert like some of the fellas on here but I do own some pretty neat stuff from CZ custom and think best bang for your buck is the Shadow 2 and surely enjoy mine [emoji106] and the 22 kadet conversion is an awesome edition cheap to shoot and blast to shoot and really really accurate as well !!! Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk