kneelingatlas

My brand new CZ 75 Tactical Sport choked on all the different factory ammo I fed it until I dumped the factory recoil buffer. I'm 250 flawless rounds buffer free and I don't see myself ever using a buffer again.

Yes, a solid, dead blow from a heavy hammer is what you need. Even with a 16 oz ball peen hammer I really had to give some love to my TS sight. If you have access to a 2 1/2# single jack, give it a try, you'll be surprised how effective a slow, solid blow can be.

Adam, steel ammo components are especially deadly to AR15s because their barrels are made of softer metal than most, but the best advice is to stay away from steel altogether (which I'm pretty sure includes Augila, Tula and Wolf). If you watch AIM, surplus ammo com, lucky gunner and cheaper that dirt you should be able to catch good deals.

Use a Tactical Sport barrel, it will give you an extra .6" O was looking into this very thing, and the Aussie barrel's extra .3 isn't enough to support a suppressor.

The Glock format is temptingly simple and available, but I just can't get past the ergonomics; for the sexy lines of the CZ I'm willing to thread my own barrel.

I polished the stock hammer/sear and my trigger breaks clean at one pound, four ounces. I probably would have bought the race hammer if CZ Custom had any in stock, but now I don't see a reason to change. When I bought my TS, I was very close to getting a Czechmate with a 40 upper fit from CZ Custom, but damn! nearly $4k to end up with CMore mount I don't want, a sub par magwell, and two 20rnd mags I don't want... I decided to slow down a bit, get the TS and now I'm playing around building a poor man's Czechmate with the slide from Iconoclast's SP01 slide. It's been fun.

Here's the best piece of advice I've ever read (I know I read it on this board, but can't remember where, otherwise I'd give credit where it's due): Bring the target in relatively close (five yards for me), take aim and fire two shots as fast as you can; don't even reacquire the sight picture. If the second shot is low, the muzzle dips as the slide slams home, you could use a lighter spring, if the second shot is high, you could use a heavier spring. Of every method I've read, this one makes the most sense, in theory and in practice.

Just looking at the mags and grip, my money is on small frame; I've owned both.

I don't currently load my own ammo, but are you saying that too little gas will render a comp ineffective?

Three ports may be too much for Minor loads... The comp seems to make little/no difference shooting 115 grain 1,100 FPS factory ammo. Any suggestions?

I'm new to this compensator game (I actually shot a compensated gun for the first time today); if I have too much comp shooting minor loads, is it likely the comp will have no noticeable effect on recoil? I shot the gun with and without the comp and couldn't tell the difference. Here's what I'm shooting: It's got a three port aluminum Tanfoglio comp; I actually chose the Witness comp because they are so readily available and I could get one with three, two or one port. I was afraid the three port would be too much for the 115 grain, 1,100 FPS loads I'm shooting, does that sound right? I suspect I would want to have a three port for major loads and a two or one part for minor loads? Any advice would be greatly appreciated. I don't mean to hijack Dan's thread, but as my setup is based on an SP01 slide, I figure this would be helpful for him too.

Never! Thanks for all the info. I'm pretty much the opposite: a limited shooter playing with the compensated 9mm upper I made for my TS (just for the fun of it for now). I also get my middle finger crammed up on the trigger guard, but before I start carving up my TS, I've toyed with the idea of selling the TS as a 9Major gun and buying a Czechmate (swapping my 40 upper to shoot Limited). I don't reload right now (two sons in daipers so the time is not worth it to me), so 9Major is really a pipe dream right now, but I might shoot a match in 9Minor just to see. I wonder how many shooters bounce back and forth between Limited and Open? I should probably pick up a used Open gun, shoot it and pick one...

I certainly have noticed that the CZ ejector comes into contact with the cartridge significantly later in the stoke than the clones I've owned (Tanfo, IMI) which have a definite point jutting forward into the breech, but failure to eject was not my problem, rather failure to feed which seemed to be caused by insufficient slide momentum going into battery. Since the removing the buffer fixed the problem, I assume the longer stroke helps the slide develop the necessary momentum. I probably could have solved the problem with a tronger recoil spring, but I feel like the one I have is the perfect weight to bring the muzzle back down on target, but not dip below. At some point I plan to lighten the slide, so then I'll be back to square one again. How does your Czechmate compare to your TS? Have you done any grip reduction on the TS? have you traded uppers to compare the frames? do you have OAL issues with 9Major loads? Sorry for all the questions(you don't have to answer them all/any if you don't want to), but you're the first owner of both I've come across.

Dan, I'm going to shoot my compensated 9mm SP01 upper for the first time on Monday. I've got a thread going on the project in the CZ section; send me a message and I'll give you all the details.

Like you I did a ton of research on the Gold Team 9mm, I also sent messages to anyone I could find; the consensus was that the old mag design was a problem, but the new mags (unfortunately I don't know when the switch occurred) but reliable 170mm mags have to be custom built (I think Henning is making them.

Eric, why do you say that?

I'm interested in how light some of your slides are and if anyone has run into problems making their slide too light? I shoot a CZ Tactical Sport .40 in Limited, but I'm building a 9mm open upper for it. I know the CZs use an inertia firing pin (the pin doesn't touch the hammer and primer at the same time, but is carried by inertia into it) so if slide velocity is too high the FP will strike primers as the slide slams closed, but I have know idea if that's the case with 2011s. Anyone care to shed some light on the subject? Does anyone know the slide weight of their Open gun? Limited? I've asked some guys in my local club and they all seem generally annoyed that I expect them to know anything about their guns; they have all had them professionally built and send them off when there's something wrong. Am I that unique it the sense that the technical side is so appealing to me?

I made a mold and poured fiberglass resin into mine.

Edit: nose dives returned until I finally removed the shock buffer; now 250 rounds jam free. I bought my TS about a month and a half ago and the only mods I've made were a Hogue Monogrip, Wolff 13# hammer spring and I polished the crap out of the feed ramp/breech face; at first I had some jams from rounds nose diving, but then I turned the feed ramp into a mirror and have had no issues since. Next mods on my list are CZ Custom base pads and mag well, down the road I may consider: comp hammer (once CZC has them back in stock), slide lightening cuts, remove checkering from front and rear of grip, undercut trigger guard/beaver tail (at which time I might refinish in black). Some people like to hack back the dust cover, but I feel like the static weight helps soak up a lot of recoil, so I would rather take weight out of the slide.

Shot four stages last night: no shock buffer, no jams!

Have you ever tried the Hogue Monogrip? I put them on everything! They would a little modification to fit your Gold Team, but it's pretty doable.

Does your hunter have a bull barrel or cone lockup? Anyone know about the Bullseye?

I think there's some confusion in the replies; the gun pictured is the Tanfoglio Bullseye. Unless I'm mistaken the OP is talking about the gun, not the powder. I have not shot one, but I greatly enjoyed my Witness longslide so the temptation is there. My current love affair is with my CZ 75 Tactical Sport.

Let me introduce myself as a guy who does or has owned firearms in the following calibers: .22 short, .22lr, .22 mag, .38 special, .357 mag, .40s&w, .44 mag, .45 acp, 9mm, 10mm, 20ga, 12ga, .223, .300 savage and .30-06. MORE GUNS, FEWER CALIBERS! Things can really get nuts when you have hundreds of rounds in most calibers with thousands in others; so once I bought my CZ Tactical Sport in 40 and started shooting limited and it was all I wanted to shoot I shed some calibers. I have thee. 357 mag revolvers in the house and if you ask me they are the perfect pistol for HD; no safeties, no jams, devastating muzzle energy and if you need more than six shots to stop a threat in your home 1 practice more and 2 MOVE! I have at one point owned both small and large frame Tanfos and I say large frames for long rounds and small frames for short rounds; 9 and 40 are small frame rounds in my book. Don't let anyone tell you there's only a 2 round difference between 9 and 40; it's 4 in small frame. That being said, the justified use of lethal force is in a defensive manner; the lust for vengeance is a dangerous thing.

Very cool, did you do the slide cuts yourself? Do you know how much it weighs now?