billypilgrim

I just read about the VersaMax Competition Tactical that it has a non-forked carrier. I was wondering as a possible alternative to a weld job, could one just purchase the carrier of a Competition Tactical and install it on a regular Tactical VersaMax?

Wow, I got so busy with work that I forgot to report back! It ended up being the slide release. I slapped in the standard 75B slide release and it locks back without issues! My weapon hand thumb was barely touching the slide release on the extended slide release. Apparently it doesn't take much pressure on the slide release to keep it from locking.

I have no real intention to change my grip, even if it turns out to be the cause of the slide not locking back. The failure to lock the slide back occurred when my stage plan fell through (stupid steel). It's difficult to adhere to a stage plan when you start missing steel and do not have a good sense of where I am at in my 10 rounds. Something I need to work on. It was my first production match... My whole point of this thread was to a determine if there might be a mechanical issue with the gun. So far, from the feed back, this does not seem to be the case. Next time I go to the range I will try a couple of the ideas suggested and report back.

Inserting an empty mag and pulling the slide back always locks the slide. I don't think it is necessarily something different when on the clock because when I first got the gun I took it to the range just to shoot it and it only locked back 3 or 4 times. Hopefully I will be able to make it to the range this weekend and I will take a video of my support side and see if my thumb could be actually depressing the slide release. I also have a stock CZ75B that has the non-extended slide release, can I just take the slide release out of that gun and put it into my Shadow Target? If so, I can take that to the range and exchange those parts and see if that helps any.

I do not think that it is my thumb riding on the slide release. I just inserted an empty mag in, pulled slide back so that it would lock slide back, got a good grip and tried to release the slide. I could not get enough of my thumb on the slide release to be able to activate it while naturally gripping the gun.

I bought a Shadow Target a month and a half ago from CZC and love it, it was and still is dead nuts accurate out of the box, and feels great in my hands (except I am still working on finding the right grips for me, the thin Al are just too thin for my hands, weapon hand fingers wrap around past the grip tape on support hand side). My only issue is that is very rarely will lock the slide back when I am empty. When I first got it, I took it to the range and went through 150-200 rounds, only filling mags to 10, so I would shoot each mag until empty and the gun locked the slide back maybe 3 or 4 times. I didn't think it would be too much of an issue, but last week it became a slight issue when I was shooting a USPSA match. It was my first time shooting production, and sadly was not doing too well on a stage. I got to a point where I instinctively reloaded, but did not know the mag I was dropping out was empty, so I loaded a new mag, pulled trigger, no bang. Racked slide, and it was good to go. If the gun did lock the slide lock I think I could have possibly gained a second because I did the mag exchange while moving and would have saw it was locked back. tl;dr Has anyone else had issues with their Shadow Target not locking the slide back? The interesting thing is if I load an empty mag and pull the slide back, it locks back every time. It is only during shooting that it does not lock the slide back. Any advice would be great! Thanks, -billypilgrim

I've had my 75b for a few months now and love it, definitely has made me a huge fan of CZ handguns. One thing I've noticed about my CZ's trigger is that there is a section of the trigger pull just before the trigger breaks that causes the hammer to go further back. This seems to happen only in SA, I take up the slack, continue through my trigger pull until there is a small section that feels like it has no resistance in the pull, but then after this section there is the final resistance in the trigger before the break. During this section, the hammer goes further back, maybe about a millimeter. It's really only noticeable during slow trigger pulls, particulary during dry fire excersizes. I never really thought much of it until today when I was at a steel challenge match and I was talking to a guy about the 75b, this guy who has a world more experience in firearms than me, asked if he could dry fire it, so we went over to a safety table and handed him the gun and the very first thing he mentioned about the trigger pull was the extra movement the hammer made and he as well felt the release of resistance just before the trigger broke. The pistol is completely stock, no modifications at all. Has any other 75b owners experienced this in their trigger pull? Thanks, -billypilgrim