Went to Reed's

  Went to Reed's Indoor Range in Santa Clara today. I replaced my guide rod and hammer spring two days ago on my P-01 and wanted to check for reliability today. I replaced the stock guide rod with the same polymer guide rod that I bought from CZ USA's online store. Still debating if I should go with the aluminum one I saw on their website but I'm not sure how that extra weight might affect the gun's balance in my hands. Bought 2 more extra guide rods to keep on hand just in case the guide rod warps again somewhere down the line. I had exactly 2000 rounds before I replaced it.

  The stock hammer srping I replaced with a 15lb Wolf hammer spring. Some people say you must also replace the firing pin spring and recoil spring whenever you change your hammer spring lest you get occasional light strikes. Well, so far, after 200 rounds on Federal Champion 115gr from Walmart, I haven't had a problem yet with the new hammer spring installed. Shoots like a champ as always. As for pull weight from differences between the stock spring to the Wolf Spring, I'd say there is a bit of difference there. It's not overly dramatic as say if you got a trigger job, but it did lessen the pull weight enough that I was much more comfortable shooting in DA mode. I was definitely more accurate as well as I could place my shots where I wanted to just like in SA. It's still a bit of a pull, but I kinda like it in terms of the P-01 doing duty as a home defense type pistol. I don't want a 1911 hair trigger for a HD pistol because I feel there'd be no room for error.
  Round count today is 200 rounds of Federal Champion 115gr which brings the total number of rounds fired in the P-01 to date to 2200 rounds. 200 rounds with the new hammer spring without any issue.

Went to Target Masters @ Milpitas yesterday to finish off the rest of the Fed 50 round box from the Level 2 Pistol class plus fired an additional 150 rounds. Total round count now is 2000 rounds fired. Was going to do a little 1000 round malfunction test by not cleaning the gun for at least that many rounds to see if it'll start malfunctioning. However, I wanted to check the internals for wear since I had just used it for the level 2 pistol class. Everything was fine except for the polymer guide rod. Could be the round count or maybe I just didn't allow the gun to cool down enough after the rapid fire session at the end of the class but the guide rod had warped/bent a bit upon inspection. Not too bad it seems as I used it last night at Target Masters without a problem. However, I did order two more spares from CZ USA plus a 15 lbs Wolf Mainspring from Wolf Springs to ease up the weight of the DA trigger pulls.

Total Round Count..2000 rounds.

Fighting Pistol Level 2

Took the level 2 Fighting Piston class today at Morgan Hill with the guys at Tactical Training Associates. Class, of course, was much different from the level 1 class in that movement and positional shooting is now incorporated. First part of the class was some lecturing on the basic rules of firearms along with a little overview of what we were going to do later in the day. Movements done were forward, back, and lateral movement while shooting. Positional shooting was done from standing, to knees, and, finally, prone. Shot strings ranged from a single round to 3 rounds. I expended 314 rounds total without any failures at all. That brings the running total of rounds fired in the CZ P-01 to 1714.

Went To Metcalf today..

..and shot another box of Rem UMC Value Pack 250 rounds. So, that brings the running total of ammo fired in the P0-1 to 1400. So far so good. No other failures during that time so I guess my one and only failure so far might've been a limpwristing incident or just a weak charge on the ammo. That also gets rid of any of that UMC yellow box ammor that I might've had in stock. Back to Federal Champion or WWB for plinking ammo.

Just found these at the Walmart in Milpitas. Federal Champion Value pack 9mm 100 rounds, 115gr FMJ RN for $19.97. At $60 for 300 rounds, you're basically getting 50 rounds more than the regular 50 round Fed Champion Box or the UMC Value pack which are both just about $60 for 250 rounds. WWB is basically not even in the same league price wise anymore. Best value at Walmart for brass cased 9mm ammo. Only Tula might be a bit less and that is if your Walmart carries it and if you can even fire it at your local range.


Pics of the WWB 100 round pack, Fed Champion 100rnd value pack and Fed Champion 50 rnd pack for comparison.


Another view.


Two smaller white boxes are inside the value pack


Each box has a row of 10 rounds, 5 layers deep for a total of 50 each.


Side by side of a regular 50 round cartridge on left vs 100 round cartridge on right. Pretty much
the same except coating on the 100 rnd cartridge is a bit more shiny.


View from below of primers. Looks the same to me

Update for Sat, Sept 10 - Sun, Sept 11

On Sat, Sept 10, I took the CZ P-01 out for some tactical training with Tactical Training Associates based out of Morgan Hill, CA. It was their level 1 Pistol class which is basically a beginner's class. It was different, however, from the NRA Basic Handgun course that I took previously last Dec 2010. They focused more on the semi automatic type of pistol rather than a combination of semi and revolver as the NRA class did. Their lecture on basic safety, legality of owning and using a firearm, and other basic info was covered basically in an hour rather than the 2-3 hours it took with the NRA class. The rest of the time with TTA was basically working  drills with our guns from basics of markmanship to rapid fire drills. My P0-1 performed like a champed. Used exactly 230 rounds for this class and had no failures whatsoever.

Took a class pic

On Sun, Sept 11, 2011, I basically just went to Target Masters in Milpitas to finish off another 170 rounds to bring the total number of rounds fired in the gun to be about 1150.

update 9/4/11

Another update.

Shot another 250 rounds of UMC Value Pack from Walmart. This time around no failures to go into battery like the previous session. So, out of 750 rounds so far, only one failure to go into battery which could've been from a weak charge or a limp wristing incident. Anways, shot all of these in 5 round strings on 4 mags so each target basically was shot 20 times at 7 yards and 10 yards. 25 yards went all to hell as I was getting tired and was losing focus. Camera pic came out all blurry too so won't even bother posting that.


This was at 7 yards. Not too bad. Very first shot was for the center target with the DA pull. Totally missed and hit the very edge of the lower right target. lol


This was at 10 yards. Groupings getting a bit bigger. Couple of flyers here and there were from the 1st DA pulls..


Ah hell. I might as well post the last one, too. Center and top targets were from 25 yards. Didn't go as well as I liked. So I pulled the target back to 7 yards and shot the center target again plus the bottom two to get the groupings back down.