Good thing you checked! Sounds like a lot of fun. CZ is defibately impressive all around but then again I didn't really expect much. Remington put a new .22 on the market recently but before then, CZ seemed to make the only half decent bolt action .22.

My rifle is sitting here on the table anyway so I thought I'd share a pic.




Let's see your CZ

ive shot the XDS 9mm, nice gun, just be sure the little backstrap safety doesnt depress all the way into the gun, the grips a little sharp back there on one of those types of guns i shot at a range once. kinda cut into my hand a bit, however my XDS 45 didnt have that issue, went with the 45 over the 9 cause i got it for a steal, $350 nice gun, its been my carry for the past year and a half at least. ive got two holsters for it, ones a desantis nemesis for in the pocket carry, works quite well, just gotta keep straightening out that little extra flap that keeps it vertical in your pocket every once in a while

Nice, great post.

In a similar fashion, I got my first air rifle for Christmas at age seven, a high muzzle velocity Diana. I was lucky that both my parents were gun trained and there was no consternation from either that it would be a device of a disciplined upbringing. My dad (already introduced in another post here) had got his training in the RAF, and he was not above giving me a good, hefty smack round the ear for a few of cases of misuse during those early years; cases just like, leaving it loaded, accidentally letting it point at a person, and neglecting to clean, among a couple others.

I won't go on too much about the rest of it. Coolest rifle I ever fired was the Lee Enfield (SMLE) 0.303, in England years ago. Had a couple of fire arms and a couple of air rifles up until recently here in Ecuador. Unfortunately, the law changed drastically regarding weapons with the new government, and seven years ago there was an exhortation from them for all citizens to "hand them in", even if they were licensed. Of course, all thieves and muggers did not hand in their illegally held weapons. You can imagine what happened for a couple of years after that one, right? LOL!

I managed to hold onto one rifle and one air rifle, under special exemption, due to the fact that my job, apart from regular security and substances screening, also includes yearly psychological evaluation. Lost a nice Winchester 0.410 and a Gamo 0.177 high muzzle velocity air rifle, kept a Marlin 883SS bolt action, rim-fire 0.22, and an old BSA Airsport 0.177 that I have literally had for decades. Only problem is, I cannot take them out anymore, at risk of being fined and sent to jail if caught. Oh, well.



Just a point of interest; I am positive that regular long range shooting kept my eyesight in tip top form for years. Only in the last two years I felt that my eyesight has been going. It still comes up as 20/20 during my eye tests for distance, yet I feel it is terrible, now that I don't shoot. I am way passed the age where I should have started to need glasses now. I wonder what it was once, really, as opticians are a bit silly in that they always stop at 20/20 and don't test for exceptional vision.

That CZ bears a striking resemblance to the H&K USP. Very nice.

I got in as much shooting as I could when I was in the Boy Scouts. I kicked ass at shooting skeet, at least compared to a bunch of middle-school-aged kids. I've got an air rifle that hasn't left the closet in at least 10 years, but other than that my gun history revolved mostly around airsoft.

Been to an indoor shooting range a couple times over the past few years, where I've shot one of these guys that they have to rent a couple times:


That was an experience. Favorite though was probably a Kimber 1911 that somehow just felt "right" and made me more accurate. I'd like to get a pistol someday, probably some kind of 1911.

EDIT: Actually I remembered I recorded part of it and put it up on Youtube..

lol, I'm sitting here just like "MOVE THE RIGHT FOOT 6 INCHES BACK." Of course they never do.

EDIT: (In response to the video.)

Personal opinion?

They are guns that only serve a single purpose -shooting people.

Even for plinking I'd rather shoot a .22lr and save a lot on ammo and has the same or better accurate range.

So unless I was planning on shooting someone or was expecting the situation to arise where I wanted to shoot someone, I wouldn't be interested in it at all.

Also, personally, I don't take home defense to mean that I need to be a one-man swat team. Hell I'm such a deep sleeper that they could steal my bed and I'd never know until morning; what's a fancy gun going to help me then?

Besides, I'd rather lose the TV then have a gunfight in the house.

I for one never like to sleep unless I'm under one of these puppies pointed right at the door.


lol, yeah I don't know if I'd ever get a gun for home defense. For me it's a recreational activity. I know I'd save a shitload with a .22 but I couldn't live with an actual gun that's still just another peashooter. I mean I might as well fix my airsoft M-4 and shoot things from across the room.

Yeah, pistols don't have the barrel length to get the old V<sup style="vertical-align: super; font-size: smaller;">2</sup> part of the kinetic energy formula going, like rifles. Even small bore rifles are lethal because the projectiles arrive at a phenomenal rate of feet per second and cause all sorts of sonic shock damage to tissue and flesh. With pistols it is all about compensating the lack of velocity with slug weight.

My chief educator in gun matters, once again, told me a story about the adoption of the 0.45 instead of the 0.38 when the U.S was fighting a savage bunch of Indonesian rebels. These guys used to get themselves into fighting frenzies, and the 0.38 was just not enough to stop them in their tracks. Enter the 0.45. Knocked them off their feet. I remembered this story as read Pyro's post just now, and looked it up . Turns out it is true. My dad was quite a gun historian, after all.

If I could have another weapon, and were it to be a hand gun; no less than the Browning 0.45 would be the one, as much for its historical heritage as the fact it is, well, an efficient brute!