CZ 75 CO2 BB Pistol

I bought this for my son who shoots IDPA Pistol. This is a replica of the same gun he owns. Even the safety. Since we live in the city he can very well make a coarse in the back yard and go to town with his 9mm. So after a few weeks of begging me, I was convinced to buy this so he could practice and I would save money on ammo. He/We could not believe how well it mimicked his actual 9mm pistol. Even down to the weight in the mag. which we did order 2 mags for it. Blow back simulates barrel lift and slide stays back when empty. He was even able to use his same belt gear, holster so on. Great job!

312fps is ok for close targets, I would have hoped for at least 410 like the cheapo xbg's for longer distances.

the 312 FPS while a bit weak, the co2 will last about 6 mags. so not really that bad. oh yeah co2 is in each mag so buy more than 1

Functions almost like my CZ.

This model has the safety. I would prefer the decocker like my real CZ.

Description of the gun needs to be better on the website. I'm not sure that I would have purchased this if I knew that this model has a safety instead of the decocker.

From my ratings of the aspects of the pistol, the three stars must come from somewhere other than the other two categories. It is the materials, finish and handsome recreation of this pistol. It is truly nice to look at. My rating is based upon the pistol as it came from the box. It had a few faults that made it less than attractive performance wise. After a thorough testing consisting of a dozen different BB types and brands over several hundred shots, I made some changes to remedy the persistent lack of accuracy and tendency to shoot everything 1-1/2" left. I can not factor the result of my changes into my rating as that is not what you get from the box. If this pistol had better grouping I would have given it 4 stars, but 3-1/2" groups at 6 yards on average regardless of the ammo is just sorry accuracy.The trigger operation also had a large influence on the rating. This is simply the best trigger in the industry for any pistol of this type and has no fault whatsoever.

Here is what I would change: the inside diameter of the barrel measures .178". That is way over-bore from the average bore diameter of .175" of BB smooth bores. This pistol will digest the over sized (.177") Marksman Premium BB's without any problems. Yet, these are not much better in my pistol because even after I filed the rear sight notch to move the impact point to the right, these still shot left. I also had to file down the front sight to remedy the low impact of every brand of ammo tested. (That front sight is plastic by the way and is not integral with the slide though it is excellently fitted.) Each pistol and shooting style will influence point of impact so I did not deduct any in my rating due to that. The excessively loose fit of the actual barrel into the silver barrel housing is another matter. When I placed two 1/4" x 3/8" o-rings into the silver housing against the front inner part where the barrel sticks out of it and ran the barrel through them, groups shrank by half.

The o-rings do not (and must not) grip against the inner wall of the silver housing but do ride very closely and reduce the barrel movement up/down and side to side enough to make a large difference. After the sight work mentioned above and this addition of the o-rings, my groups with the best ammo were well centered on the target and would keep nearly all 17 shots into 2" at 6 yards. The best ammo in my gun is the ASG Blaster. The Umarex Precision and Hornady Black Diamond also gave good results with centered shot placement, just not as tight as the ASG. My velocities were 331 fps average @ 80 degrees with slow fire shots spaced 30 seconds apart. I found the unpopular magazine extension very useful to stabilizing my free standing aim by allowing extra purchase with my off-hand resulting in a better hold. I agree that is is not great in appearance, but is is very good in function. I also found the magazine tab large enough to control the follower with my left index during loading.