slavex

do you have a pic of the one that came in the SP01, I've never seen a non mag brake version in those guns (might be we don't get them in Canada?)

the mag brake in the the Shadow and the SP01 are already drop free ones, so installing another will not fix anything. DO NOT remove material from the mag catch, it is a waste of time and energy. DO bend one of the two legs (I do the left leg for a right handed setup mag catch), about the last 3mm of the leg, in toward the other leg at about a 45 degree angle. This stops the catch from being pressed in too far into the frame, binding the mags. The new Shadow 2 catch has two things to prevent this, 1) it has a shoe on the outside that contacts the frame, 2) instead of one big slot for both legs of the spring to go into, there are separate slots in the catch, this prevents the catch from going in too far if you remove the shoe.

from what I can gather, there has been some delays, hope to know more this week when I get to Czech

played around with Robin's today in Slovakia, like, like very much. Sadly no photos though, phone died.

I don't remember what he charged me, I bought a bunch and snagged them from him when I was in Germany. Will be grabbing more when I see him in a few weeks. you do need a 7mm tall front sight as well, which he sells.

I get mine from Bosko (address above) and have them on all my Shadows now, best rear sight going

I actually want a little pretravel, especially in cold weather when my fingers get numb. Even on my sniper rifle I like a little take up before my shot breaks. I find even with 2011s I like a little movement. I am more interested in having as little overtravel as possible. Ernest Langdon achieves wonders with his Beretta trigger jobs on that, something I've yet to find on a CZ

I have almost zero pretravel as a result of the pre B disco, in SA that is, which is what I would assume you're talking about, without the pre B there is a fair amount of movement. Sadly tomorrow I can't take any video, but I'll be watching Maria and Robin shoot their Shadow 2s and will be playing with them after. but the rules at Infinity Open are no pics or video of the shooting or the stages

for guns that have a decock lever you can use the half cock notch, because you don't want a hammer dropping with force on the firing pin (even if it has a block, it's bad for it). However, if you don't have a decock lever, it's hammer down all the way. I've posted the video of what happens when you screw up a decock, you'd have to try really really hard to actually damage yourself with the slide coming back. The half cock position wasn't originally designed to be the place the hammer rested on these guns, it was designed to catch the hammer if something went wrong and it was dropped without pulling the trigger. As, back in the day cocked and locked was such a mainstay. However if you don't want to run your gun that way, that's fine, you just don't get to shoot IPSC/USPSA half cocked, and I doubt very very much you'll be able to convince anyone to even suggest a rule change. Sorry

why not do the case mouth belling there and hold the case down?

I posted pics of the CZ factory bushing gun already in this thread

regarding all the "potential dangers" of decocking. the only potential danger is going home early. Or if you are out practicing, sending a round downrange that you could have got some practice with. So long as the gun is pointed in a safe direction, it going off during this procedure is not a big deal. we aren't talking about people doing this to carry their guns, or to do so after a gunfight, we are talking about doing it at a range during a match or practice. As for why IPSC made the rule in the first place, it was done so that these guns could become compliant in a new division that was being formed, Production division, accepting them in SA would have been a waste of time as there are other divisions that have SA guns. It allowed for the creation of the largest division in the sport and covered the largest amount of guns available. Otherwise it would have been the Glock/Beretta division with a few odd balls thrown in.

I could have stayed with Tanfoglio, but after shooting a Shadow it was easy to change, sponsorship with CZ happened later. First and foremost for me are the flush safeties, I hate, and that's not even a strong enough word for it, the safeties on the Tanfos, and I know I'm not the only one. I hundreds and hundreds of shooters who feel the same way. But that's not all, the Shadow has a better trigger setup than even the nicest tuned Stock whatever. That short hammer strut and springway on the Stocks suck. you can only do so much with a spring that short. Those two things put the base Shadow far far above the Stock models, in my opinion. My Stock II is sitting in the sae as I type this, down a few parts that were loaned out to friends who broke things, I doubt she'll really ever leave the safe once I get those parts replaced. Then you take the new Shadow 2 which is an improvement on the original Shadow, and, I feel, miles and miles ahead of the Stocks.

let alone that even a base Shadow is still a better gun than the Stock line.... and ignoring the fact that the design team started working on this long before the Stock III came out as well.

ok, some of the questions posted have already been answered, Sights are interchangeable, I am currently running a Shadow 2 sight on my Shadows, requires a 7mm tall front sight, Shadows can come with 1.5 and 1mm FO rod, depending on the version you get. mags are exactly the same. They are shipping with the Mecgar 19 rounders where legal, we are hoping the MecGar 10 rounders (dented 17/19 bodies) in other jurisdictions There is a bushing model made, Robin used one I believe in Australia in Standard division. Whether it is going to become a model available to all of us is something that won't be decided upon until next year at the earliest. They received more orders for the 2 at IWA than their planned production schedule would cover, so specialty ones like the bushing, or Orange would be quite aways off. Safeties- the gun is supposed to be shipping with both styles of safeties, you can mix and match as you see fit. Things like the safeties and slidestops likely won't be interchangeable as the frame is wider by 2mm in that area, and from what we saw with the Rami safety I tried at IWA, that means those parts on the 2 are slightly different

slavex, Did the sensitivity change after a software upgrade or has it degraded over time with use? Thx, M Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk It seemed to change with the upgrade, not slowly over time

ahhhhhhhh, look at that, learned something!

Heard back from CZ they are keen to the idea of me doing the interview at the factory. If you have any questions you'd like answered post 'em here. Please make them related to only the Shadow and the Shadow 2

I find some of the things I've read on the trigger bar spring to be very very strange. The factory recommends that it be the same on both sides, not one side higher than the other. In playing with a variety of top shooters CZs I've yet to hear anyone talk about messing with that spring to tune their guns, but maybe I've just missed that?

For the D leg on the safety, maybe 5 minutes with a small file. Make sure to test it in the gun before as you do it, not just out of the gun, as you can end up removing too much and having a floppy right side safety.As Stuart said (in the linked thread above) when it comes to the sear/safety fit, work on the sear, not the safety, it takes about 5 minutes to make that fit work.

when talking to the team at IWA no one could give me a definitive answer on the internals. I would swear the trigger bar looks heavier in the new gun, but it could be my imagination. the slidestops I know won't swap as I tried a Rami in the 2 and it didn't work (see pics in this thread). There should be no need for things like a comp hammer or whatnot as the gun comes with all the race stuff inside already. And they said they used the CAD system and new machines to optimize the various holes and dimensions in the moving parts, so it's possible old stuff might fit, but not work right (which slightly annoys me as I like the original 85 Combat trigger the best). Springs are ok to swap, trigger springs, sear springs and hammer springs, not sure on recoil, as the slide is longer. Mag catch probably will work, but not sure on that either as the frame is 2mm wider, but perhaps not where the mag catch is. All things we need to find out. I am hoping to do an interview when I am at the factory in June, with the design team.

when I first got the MkVII I think the jam sense worked better. If a primer didn't decap properly and made it to the swage, it would detect the primer being squished. Now, it doesn't seem t do that very often. Thankfully the primer sense works and tells me if one doesn't get punched out.

those grips could have not had lock washers, but that is a stretch. So yeah, 2 significant mistakes and one minor one. Who made the video

following that video people will get stuck at removing the safety, isn't it held in by the sear spring?

without seeing your hands I have no idea, or how you grip even. I have very very large hands, and I run medium thick grips, I have zero issue getting a good solid grip over top of my other fingers as they come around the grip