EssOne

Hey gjohnsoniv, one of the bad things about the CZ 75/85 lines is that CZUB expanded their mag wells over the years and the older guns don't want to accept mags made for the newer mag well specs. So before you go investing in new mags, see if your LGS will let you try and insert a new one into your gun. If it fits, you're good. If not, then you need to go to the CZ Forums to see how to expand your well to accept new mags. This is a big issue with the older Pre-B guns. Sometimes the 18 round mags for the CZ75 SP01 will work in it, and this is supposed to be a cure-all, but in my 1991 CZ 85 only one of the $100 threesome I bought would even snap in, and then it was a very tight fit. There are some solutions over there that seem simple enough to do. But  I foolishly drank the Kool-Aid and bought $100 worth of mags that didn't work, so borrow and try before you buy. FWIW    Here's the link to the sticky that discusses smithing the Pre B mag wells. http://www.czfirearms.us/index.php?topic=39056.0 Hope it helps.   EssOne   Later note: CZ will sometimes offer mags for the older guns, but they are seldom in stock and are outrageously expensive. But that's something to explore if your gun won't accept new mags. FYI

This is one of my all-time favorite pistols. It is a Hungarian copy of the Browning Hi Power manufactured by FEG, the arms conglomerate of the Hungarian government. It is a KBI import called their Model PJK 9HP. It is a completely reverse engineered, totally faithful copy of the FN design, and was manufactured back around 1994. I bought it unfired in '09 off of GunBroker and I have to say it took my breath away when I opened the box - The high polished blue job honestly rivals the Colt Python and the Weatherby Mark V rifle. I can only conclude that this gun was probably reserved for a VIP, given the meticulous attention to detail shown by the workmen. Not only are the frame and slide polished to a high sheen, so are the inside of the trigger guard, the slide stop, and the safety lever. But the rear of the slide and frame facing the shooter are polished to a much lower sheen, as they should be. The guy who polished this gun was very good at his trade. The frosting on the cake is that it is tight as a drum in fit, has an excellent trigger, and shoots every bit as well as it looks, routinely producing 15 yard bench rest groups of 1 1/2 - 2 inches. So I really doubt that this was just an ordinary production pistol. I've owned five of these guns and none of them come within a country mile of this one. And all for $315+fees. :up: Anyway I finally went for the brass ring by installing Novak three dot sights and Hogue Kingwood checkered grips. I wanted to bring the gun up to the full potential of its looks and shootery, and I think I probably succeeded. Here she is. .....and to answer your last question - do I baby it? Oh yeah I do - bigtime!! EssOne

Yep. And I'd bet money most of them have been banned from an internet gun forum for it. Yay!

Get well soon, neighbor. Glad everything is going your way. Best wishes.

I was sitting here a few minutes ago when the phone rang. The gent on the other end of the line was my next door neighbor who asked if we are having a family get together this afternoon. I said "no' and he said: "OK, I just wanted to know before I cranked up my pressure washer and blew off my deck. I didn't want to fire it up if you were going to have folks over this afternoon."   Boy, after getting the crap beaten out of us all week by Baltimoregate, Billarygate, copgate, Iranbombgate and all the other gates, that one little act of kindness lifted my spirits and made it all go away. Funny how an ounce of honey can outweigh a gallon of venom, y'know? Yay for honey.   EssOne

  That boat is rather full, I'm afraid. :pleased:

Beautiful pistol. Now to go see what I can get for my eldest male child and newest pickup. :pleased:

  Yessir. Amen and then some.

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And to complicate matters further, it's a common prosecutorial tactic to unload the entire Penal Code on a number of people hoping to scare a couple of them into rolling over on the others. This is risky as heck and, suggests in my mind anyway, that her evidence in support of all the charges may be less than solid, or stated differently, good enough for an indictment but not good enough for a conviction. If so, and if that's the only reason she filed voluminous charges, she'll need a carload of ketchup to eat all the crow the defense, the media, and the Police Unions will throw at her once it becomes known. She will drown in criticism if she has done that and can't back it up, IMHO.

Why don't you go over to the Browning Hi Power section of the 1911 Forums and ask about prices. They deal with Hi Powers and all their variations every day and can help a lot.  http://forums.1911forum.com/forumdisplay.php?f=15 Look up a guy named Burgs.   You'll also get some expert information in the Hi Power forum of http://www.handgunsandammunition.com/hi-power-forum/  This is Stephen A. Camp's old site and there are some really experienced Hi Power guys over there, including some former military BHP armorers.   One bit of advice I would give is since this is your first BHP, stay away from any surplus guns and go with a LNIB used one or a new one unless you know someone who can help you work on them.. GunBroker is literally loaded with them. They are not cheap but they are one of the all time classic pistols. You'll never lose a dime on one and the pride in ownership is hard to beat.   EssOne

My sisters ask me if I'll ever go back to California and I tell them that if I do the Tennessee Highway Patrol will find ten bloody claw marks going West on I-40 'cause I ain't going easy!  :usa:

Nope. I have even been requested by church leaders to carry. However, right across the Virginia border it's illegal unless something has changed recently.

  This appears to be the predominant view being expressed everywhere. I hope she wears her cast iron shorts to court because the opposition lawyers are going to jump at them with chainsaws and blow torches.

Well, there is also the fact that since 1965 our standards, morals, principles, scruples, and ethics have been severely compromised, and we as a nation have told God to take a hike. All those things had to come home sooner or later, and I think they just arrived.

  You and everybody else in the western hemisphere. This is the most suspect filing of criminal charges I can recall in my lifetime. I don't have a sense that these charges have been developed with a proper degree of careful deliberation at all, and the prosecutor doesn't impress me one bit.

No offense guys, but in this discussion I'd sure like to see us stay away from bouncing back and forth from criminal trial issues to civil trial issues because that's always confusing. The proof requirement for a criminal trial is "proof beyond a reasonable doubt" while the proof standard in a civil trial is only "preponderance of evidence." And other rules of procedure can be quite different between them too, as we saw in OJ's two trials.   Also, the issue of reasonable cause for arrest can be a sticky sonofagun, since it can be rooted in both statutory law and case law. So I won't conclude they were wrong just because there doesn't appear to be an evident crime in play at the time until I hear the lawyers argue it out.  I'm sure the courts will get into the officers' state of mind at the time they saw the man and what they "reasonably believed," and other unpredictable things like that. I'm not totally convinced that the officers will be found in the wrong for pursuing even if they have no crime to use as a basis for the pursuit. I'm sure the court will also look into established procedures and training doctrine as well. The lawyers and judges will get a good workout on this one.

The next shoe to drop won't be the trial of the officers. The next shoe to drop will be launching into a mad scramble to save the Mayor's political career, and that will be interesting since the common perception is that she royally dropped the ball. As for Baltimore Public Safety officials, I think they're toast.  Whatever the process or lack of process may be, the Chief of Police and some Division Commanders will probably be sent into early retirement, or reduced in rank, or fired outright, and I'm sure there will be a massive retraining program for the entire Department.....If I were on Baltimore PD right now I would nail my feet to the floor because the place is about to get turned upside down and shaken real hard.   As for the issue of the residents' zeal for justice, only their conduct when the officers' verdicts are read will determine whether their zeal is really for justice, or only for retribution. My past experience suggests the latter will prevail, and I wouldn't be surprised to see more rioting if any of the officers are acquitted. Of course if they are, the U.S. Justice Department will, as always when they're dissatisfied with a local verdict, step in with federal Civil Rights charges. This is upsetting because the feds never seem to think Civil Rights issues are pertinent until the local verdict is for acquittal. Like I said, it could be the most interesting can of worms since the Rodney King incident of the early 90's.

Intelligent discussion of topics concerning police officers/agencies and their failings and wrongdoings, even those that get heated, are perfectly all right, even desirable. I'm a 28 year retired cop and I welcome honest examination of the police service.    But when the rap sheet crowd comes out of the internet woodwork and starts throwing around BS accusations, derisive names, and their sick version of propriety, proper respect for all the dead cops in cemeteries says it's time to back off and start asking some questions instead of racing to the "Like" icon. Have any of you guys ever wondered about the motivation of really devoted internet cop bashers? Huh? OK, who hates cops most? Answer: Those who have examined the wrong side of a jail cell door, and I would remind you that there's no background check required to join an internet gun forum, either. So when you see a load of out and out hatred and derision being expressed by the cop bashers, you might just want to wonder if their parole officers know what the devil they're doing on a gun forum. You'll never convince me that the devoted internet cop bashers haven't been around the criminal justice pike a time or two, and these guys invariably poison a really good discussion. I guess this is where I'm supposed t say "end of rant."

FN stuff certainly should be good. They have manufactured one of the world's priemier military/police pistols since 1935 - the FN P35, known in this country as the Browning Hi Power. Congrats on finding a gun you're so satisfied with. That's a habit with FN owners. [url=http://s275.photobucket.com/user/jaypee3843/media/d9442de7-1047-4222-a145-dee5c783e717_zpsgd4bqoyy.jpg.html][/URL]

This Ventura native wishes you well, Grunt. Keep 'em straight out there.

When I moved from Southern California to Northern California I entered into a private agreement with the President of Mexico whereby if he invaded California I would not offer active resistance until he got to Lodi. Everything South of that he could have. :pleased:

In one of the early scenes of the movie "Patton", General Patton is doing a walk-through of the Headquarters of an infantry division that had been beaten bloody at the battle of Kasserine Pass. As he walked down a darkish hallway he tripped over a GI who was laying on the floor sleeping. Not knowing who had just kicked him, the Private on the floor yelled: Hey! I'm trying to get some sleep down here!!" to which General Patton said: "Well go back to sleep. You're the only sonofabitch in this Headquarters who knows what he's trying to do."   Think it would help if we sent some sleepy privates to City Hall in Baltimore? I'm sure they too would be the only..........................................

You can believe California state government is serious about the water crisis when you see them outlaw the watering of all residential grass lawns. The southern half of California is almost entirely VA/FHA housing tracts with hundreds of thousands of grass lawns front and rear that often get watered once daily, and in many cases where the soil is decomposed granite, twice daily.  The water being used is fresh drinking water, not recycled gray water. So the amount of good water evaporating into the air and blowing out to sea every day is monumental.    The action taken so far to meet the crisis is about like shooting at an elephant with a .22. The State Legislature is too busy enacting gun controls and laws regulating the declawing of domestic cats.

Unemployed people aren't a good source of sales tax revenue. The present rate is 7.5% with a cap at 10% for local levies. Add that to the already outrageous cost of living out there and it's very likely to be a burden that just can't be borne. Nothing is simple in a state having 38 million people.