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Saturday, August 26, 2023

Gun Times - Euro But Not Trash: The Cold War Vintage CZ 75 'Pre-B' 9MM

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EURO BUT NOT TRASH: THE COLD WAR VINTAGE CZ 75 'PRE-B' 9MM

While guys who dig CZs these days often like to think of themselves as mysterious and edgy, back in the chilliest days of the Cold War, picking up a CZ 75 was tougher than you'd think. A product initially of Communist-controlled and Moscow-allied Czechoslovakia, as we have covered dozens of times in the past, the CZ 75 first hit the market in Europe in 1975, hence the name. While nothing in the design was new – every feature had already appeared in a production gun somewhere – the combination of its internal slide rail design (similar to the SIG P210) with a 15+1 shot detachable 9mm magazine (Smith & Wesson Model 59), double-action/single-action trigger system (Walther P-38), and a linkless cam locking system (Browning Hi-Power) yielded a very sweet shooting pistol with a decent capacity that could be seen as a legitimate target or "combat" handgun, especially for its day.

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