(GunReports.com) — From Gun Tests reader Dan Brunger in the upcoming November 2013 issue:
I’ve been a subscriber for about 15 years and dearly love your perspectives on guns. About the CZ 75 that Full Armor Firearms refinished: The CZ is my favorite handgun. I purchased one (157XXX) at a Ft. Worth gun show in the mid-90s NIB for $400. Everyone was overlooking it, and it was an impulse buy. No regrets whatsoever! Ergonomics and features are superb! I qualified CCW in Texas with it. One issue is the magazines. Sometime down the road the internal workings changed and newer magazines do not fit my CZ 75. Could you tell me when the change occurred and how to tell the magazines apart other from physically trying them?
Newer magazines will not fit “pre-B” CZ 75 or 85 pistols. The “B” suffix was added in 1998, according to MidwayUSA.com. Non-suffix early CZs like your pistol do not have a firing-pin block safety, reversible magazine release, or ambidextrous safety. The easiest way to ensure magazines you buy will fit your pre-B CZ 75 sight unseen is to order them from CZ-USA.com. The 16-round mag No. 11114 is $43. They are not for sale in NY, CA, NJ, HI, CO, and perhaps other Banned States. — Todd Woodard, Editor, Gun Tests
