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Hey thanks mate. Yeah I use the 6.5mm high front sight (5.5mm comes on the gun from factory) with the factory fixed SP01 rear sights, shoots POA/POI. I'd be interested in the adjustable rear, so your recomendation on 170T will get me started. Cheers, Ando.

What height front sight are you running with this sight to shoor POA/POI?

So with some reserch, including the great advice here, this is where I'm at. I have a CZ TS in 40 & 357sig. I can fit a 9mm barrel & run 9mm on the 40 slide. The breach faces are different on both 9mm & 40. May require a 9mm extractor, whick is the same 9mm extractor part for all 9mm CZ's. Have heard folks fitting an SP01 mag release into TS & running SP01/75/85 mags with reliability. Now to source the TS 9mm barrel here in Austalia. Cheers, Ando.

Finally some first hand decent advice. Thanks very much folks. I'll try the barrel option first. Cheers, Ando.

CZ TS conversion. I have a CZ TS in 40 & 357sig. Are the 40 & 9mm slide & breach faces same. Can I fit a 9mm barrel & will it run reliably with 9mm? Possibly change out extractor & use 9mm mags.

Excellent mate. So I can buy a competitive PD gun & shoot it at the same match in both PD & MD. Just comply with holster requirements. Previously, was led to belive I needed 2 seperate guns, despite being both PD legal.

So what do we think of the Tanfoglio Stock II/III? Factory adjustable sights, nice heavy full dust covered gun/ with longer sight radius than CZ? Can I shoot the same gun in Production Division & then use the same gun at the same match in Metallic Division? Of do I need to have 2 seperate guns, possibly identical?

Pinch.

Yep, your problem is you are using everything, but the right grips. Piss the aluminium & VZ grips off & put CZ OFM "Factory" SP01 rubber grips on the gun. They are great, fill your hand well, definately help with recoil control (as does the wide safeties when shooting strong/weak hand)& absorbs some of the feedback through the gun, which aluminium/steel can not do. Get the OFM rubber grips back on your CZ & enjoy shooting a great gun.

LPA has the best fully adjustable revolver rear sight on the market. I liked the Weigand, but after it became loose as mentioned above, got rid of it. Honestly, a S&W factory rear sight, with a medium/tall blade, will get the job done well. They may wobble slightly, but nowhere near a loose Weigand.

I load a 135 LRN (lead round nose) in all my 38 revolver loads with ADI's AP50. Very happy.

I've found 38 short colts in a moonclipped gun to be the fastest & most reliable relaod, without any noticable lack of accuracey, in a S&W 627 38/357. For a Classic gun using speed loaders, 38 long colt would be the minimum length, for speed & reliability, in a S&W 686 38/357. I load both my short colts & long colts on a Dillon 550. Stage #1 38/357 die. Stage #2 9mm powder funnel. Stage #3 9mm die. Stage #4 9mm die crimped hard.

All my CZ 75 SP01 Shadow's (I've had 4) came with 5.5mm hight front sights & needed to be swapped for 6.5mm high front sights. Some required a slight skim off the front sight height to come onto POA/POI. There were Australian compliant Shadows with Aussie length barrels, so this may/may not have an effect on POA/POI?

Welcome to the club. Most of the best IPSC/USPSA shooters in the World, have been DQed sometime in their shooting carrer's. You are in good company. Sounds like you have learnt from your DQ, & are taking it quite hard. Keep at it & enjoy. Be safe.

As mentioned above. Given a consistant grip & pressure. You can tune the gun for POI with a recoil spring change. If you are coming back on target & stopping high, install a heavier recoil spring. If you are coming back on target & the gun is stopping lower than ideal sight picture, install a lighter recil spring. This is tuned to a particular load, so a change in ammo, may require you to go through the same process again.

In Australia, 135 LRN projectiles are very common in 9mm loads & in the CZ's. 1.1" oal is the magic # for most all CZ's. I see in the US, 125 & 145 to be the more common 9mm projectiles. Very few seem to use & or produce 135's???

Now if CZ would bring back the CZ Kadet fitted to the Shadow Line/SA frame, life would be perfect.

The CZ Shadow Line is how CZ should have been building their CZ 75's. Comes with ambi safety, no FPB & the upswept beavertail, with the classic lines of the original CZ 75/75B. IMO, the perfect CZ. I like the smaller safeties as the SP01 platform is useless to larger handed shooter. The platform is too low!!! I hate the new hammer & will be swapping it for a comp hammer. Give me the factory black rubber grips all day long too, they are excellent, IMO. I sat with Angus in NZ earlier this year & described this exact pistol as my ultimate CZ. I find my CZ Shadows all shot high at 25m with factory 5.5mm front sights, so replaced with 6.0-6.5 for POA/POI. Can't wait for the CZ Shadow Line. Got my name on the first one into Australia. Cheers, Ando.

Similar to USPSA "Production Division" guns?

Folks, you need to remember that here in Australia & others, we can't shoot 40+ calibres in IPSC or basically any other handgun shooting diciplines. We are limited to 9/38 or 357sig, still a 9/38 projectile. Does it make sense? Nope, but it's what we have. IPSC is International, not US based. There is a push to allow tac-railed 1911 short dust covers. FLDC will not happen.

Factory S&W rear blade notch widths @ 3.0-3.5mm, depth @1.5-2.0mm. Notch can be deepened or widened if required. LPA blade notch width @ 3.0mm, depth @ 2.0mm. Notch can NOT be deepened, but can be widened if required. I have a S&W 617 with factory rear sight. This is the shortest factory sight available. It measures 9.5mm high when bottomed out to the frame. The factory front sight on this revolver is @ 4.0-4.5mm high. This shoots POA/POI for me at 25m. The rear sight has @ 1.0mm of adjustment down still available. The LPA sight measures 10.5mm high when bottomed out to the frame. I have a S&W factory sight that measures 10.5 high when bottomed out to the frame. There is a taller S&W factory sight available that I hazard a guess at 11.5mm high? Brownells has a catalogue with the sizes available listed. .230" is @ 6.0-6.5mm on my ruler.

You can get a taller/shorted S&W blade for your factort sight. I run a black marker over the white outline, & all is good. I currently use LPA target black rear sight on my revolvers with a Protocl Design FO front sight. Excellent setup & solid. The Weigand blade is similar when first installed, but comes loose over time & requires replacing. LPA is a complete sight replacemnt.

I run 38 special, 38 long colt & 38 short colt in my 6 shot S&W 686 using moonclips, with no issues. The only trouble I have occasionally, is if a case is split & when fied, it binds in the chamber, requiring additional force to remove the moonclip. For me, moonlips are about the speed & ease of loading, not the unload. Both moonclips & loose cases (from speedloaders) come out equally as well. When using speedloades, I run 38 short colts loaded looong or 38 long colt. When loading with speedloaders, I prefer short colt.

Yes, provided it fits in the IPSC box. Top Phillipino competitors are using STI Rangemaster's with dust cover cut back to max. legal length as per Classic rules.

I have a S&W 686 5" 7 shot. It was a great shooter as a 7 shot. I had the cylinder replaced with a 6 shot cylinder & it was terrible. It required an experienced gunsmith to get it just right. It's now fantastic & a keeper. I'm considering fitting a 4" barrel. Cheers, Ando.