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Originally Posted by
Jay1958
| I have three CZs and they are all great guns:
CZ75BD 9mm with night sights
CZ82 9x18
CZ50 .32ACP (misstamped by the importer as a CZ70)
I am thinking about selling the CZ50... don't really need a .32ACP and I am more of a shooter than a collector. It is a lot of fun to shoot, and accurate, but I could use some cash with Christmas coming up.
I occasionally carry the CZ82 and the CZ75BD, though neither is in my usual carry rotation. |
I already said this in the military Czech section, Jay, but I'll repeat myself here: all CZ 70's are marked at the factory as CZ 50's, because they're just an update of it. So you may indeed have a CZ 70. Here's what Wikipedia says:
The vz. 70 (sometimes called the CZ 70) is a variant of the vz. 50 with some minor cosmetic changes made in 1970.
New grip shape with a larger recess for the web between thumb and finger.
New grip pattern using a grid of dimples instead of grooves.
Top of the slide is engraved with a fine wave pattern to reduce glare.
Serial number is stamped on the slide under the ejection port instead of below and behind it.
Slide serations are wider and there are more of them.
Take down lever has a cross hatched instead of grooved surface.
Larger hammer with a hole in it.
Smaller magazine release.
New magazine base with a more angular and less curved shape.
My CZ has the old-style grips, the serial number below and behind the ejection port, and the grooved take-down lever, which are marks of a CZ 50. And it has a '69 government service acceptance stamp. But it has everything else on the list above that marks a CZ 70. So it's either a transitional model, or a late CZ 50 that was refurbished as a CZ 70.