Very nice revolver!

I'm not seeing this cartridge doing anything that a standard 9 MM can't do. Another solution to a non existent problem.

In Beretta .22's, I've got a model 87 Target, and a 87 Cheetah in .22 L.R. Both nice shooting guns.

Will do. It's really hot here this time of year. So I most likely won't be getting to the range until it cools off a bit. But I am anxious to light it up!

Quote from: bearcatter on July-15-22 11:07Do I remember correctly that there is somewhere you can get all the controls in gold plate?

There might be an aftermarket company that sells them, I'm not sure. But I do know that Girsan makes a Beretta 92 clone called the Regard, that has gold appointments. Or at least made them a while back. Here is a video of one being unboxed to horrible music.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-xqRT7Q-Zk

I bought this one a few weeks ago. I had a hell of a time finding one. It's a beautiful pistol, and my favorite of all my Beretta's. The new grips finally arrived yesterday all the way from Turkey, via DHL and the Post Office. It was a bit of a job getting them on. I had to hand fit all 3 areas around the mag release, safety, and the slide release. As well as slightly enlarge the holes for the grip bushings.

Both grip panels were CNC machined to fit around these areas, but they were both cut a bit on the small side. While it made installing them more of a job, I was glad they left a bit of fitting stock. The flip side would have been to have cut them oversize, then have a sloppy fit. I used riffler files, took my time, and finally achieved a perfect fit on both sides.

So while it was a PITA, and took a couple of hours of fitting and checking, I ended up with a nice perfect fit on both panels. The Stainless Steel, gold TIN coated, Torx Head grip screws were something else I added. They turned out to be a perfect length, and the ends didn't protrude into the mag well. They fit the counterbores in the grips perfectly. They accent the gold Beretta crest and lettering nicely.

So overall I'm happy with them. They look a lot nicer than the cheap, stock black plastic panels. (The bottom photo shows the gun as it came from the case with the factory plastic grips, and the 15 round magazine). The mag shown with the new grips is a 20 round Mec-Gar.

Hopefully after the holiday is over with next week, I'll get this thing out to the range, and see how well it runs. I'm going to take a bunch of different 9 MM ammo with. This will be the first time I'll use the local indoor range here. (It's too hot this time of year to shoot outside for any length of time).

How does the FDE hold up to powder residue and cleaning solvent? Does it stain it?

Quote from: Canoeal on April-18-19 19:04
I think I will pass...

Me too. They look horribly cheap. I understand their reasoning behind them. They want to compete with the Heritage line of cheap, die cast frame models. However, some markets are better if left alone.

Frankly, I'm surprised Ruger did this. They are very a profitable company without resorting to this kind of crap. If someone gave me one of those I would sell it. You can buy a standard Mark IV for just a few bucks more. And you'll have a gun that doesn't look like a 6 year old's cap pistol bought at Toy's-R-Us.

Here are a new pair of Beretta Model 92 Compacts I picked up this past week, along with a 25 yard target. I had both to the range, and they run like the wind. The photos show both of them with the +2, 15 round magazines installed, and Walnut grips.

I picked up this Kimber Stainless II some years back. It's been a good shooter.

I've seen a few Ruger Bearcats with adjustable sights. That would for sure make them more desirable.

I got the Wilson Combat / Beretta out to the range early this morning. I brought 350 rounds but only fired 250. It was really cold and damp out, and my fingers were freezing from loading the 3 magazines I brought with me. The gun shot beautifully. Not a single malfunction. The trigger is nice, but typical Beretta with a lot of take up in single action. But it broke nice and crisp, at what I would guess to be right around 5 pounds or so. The sights are crystal clear, and print at point of hold.

All my shooting was from 50 feet. Normally I like shooting from 25 yards. But we got a lot of rain the other day, and the range was really muddy beyond the 50 foot target stands, so that is where I shot from. . All 3 of the Beretta supplied magazines loaded and fed flawlessly. My ammo was all Remington 115 Gr. FMJ Law Enforcement Training Ammo. I started shooting as soon as it was light enough to see the target. And this ammo provided quite a bit of muzzle flash. The cases all piled up in a neat 3 foot circle just a few feet to the right, and back about the same amount.

The gun shoots well, and is very accurate. Even with cheap ammo. Overall I'm very pleased with it's performance. One would expect as much from a $1,300.00 pistol. But these days you never know until you shoot it. This thing will get shot a lot. Between the excellent sights, good trigger and ergonomics, and butter smooth slide and action, it's pretty hard to put it down.

I've been trying to grab a factory stock Beretta Model 92 Brigadier for a while now. The problem is they are never in stock.... Anywhere. Either in the Bruniton or Inox finish. This Wilson Combat 92-G is the cream of the crop, albeit pricey. Davidson's got 5 of them in on Christmas Eve, so I immediately ordered one. Beretta / Wilson does a nice job on these pistols, with the slide fitting, trigger, sights, hammer, frame checkering, springs, extended steel magazine release, and pretty much everything else. Like all Brigadier's it has the much thicker slide.

When you break it down, the price isn't too bad if you add up the cost of all the custom Wilson Combat parts they put in it. There was a guy on You Tube who sent his stock Beretta 92 in, to have all the upgrades and action tune done. He said it ran him around $750.00. Throw in the cost of the gun on top of that, and it's right around what I paid for the whole gun new in the box. Plus the gun ships with 3, 15 round magazines, that are supposed to be "sand resistant". I have no idea how a magazine can, "resist sand". Most likely sales hype. I've got several 17 and 20 round Mec-Gars on hand for my other Beretta 92, so I'm good in the magazine dept.

I'll most likely wait until after the 1st to get to the range and crank it up. That way everyone will be back to work, and the range won't be so crowded. I've read nothing but good reviews on this pistol. And I'm feeling pretty safe and confident buying any gun with the Wilson Combat name on it. They don't make junk. Here are some pics of it. Anyway, at my age I'm finding the best Christmas presents are the one's you buy for yourself.

Quote from: autofull on November-19-18 17:11
yeah, i noticed that also. not that neat a rifle anymore at that price.

They are what they are. And that's all they're ever going to be. This is just like the SKS madness. You had guys not that long ago buying Mosin's for $69.00. Then they went on the Internet raving about what great rifles they were. How the ammo was so cheap and powerful. And how you could buy a crate of them for what a Mil-Spec AR costs. This sent more guys to buy them. A lot of these clowns never owned or shot a gun in their lives. They were all hooked on how plentiful, cheap, and powerful they were.

It was like a domino effect. Prices went up some, but not enough to discourage anyone enough to prevent them from bending the wheels on their shopping carts, as they pushed their new found treasures out to their trucks. Now, like with most cheap, stockpiled, milsurp bootie, the supply has finally started to dwindle. And the novelty of owning them is quickly wearing off. Because a lot of the people who bought them in the first place weren't collectors. They were bargain hunters. Now they are no longer a bargain. So a lot of them will be turned over when they hit the market again, so the owners can reinvest their profit. By buying more crap at the neighbors next garage sale.

And there very well may be crates full of these things just waiting to flood the market. Just as soon as the price gets high enough. The price of them could then very easily drop faster than a brick in a swimming pool. That's what broke the Hunt Brothers when they tried to corner the silver market in 1980. They had enough money to leverage buy enough of the silver on the market at that point in time to control the price...... Or so they thought. But they did not have enough to buy all the silver ever minted since the dawn of time.

Which is what hit the market after it roared past $50.00 an ounce. People started bringing in grandma's tea pot, grandpa Joe's molars, the silver dollar the Tooth Fairy gave them, and everything else that was ever made from the shiny $h!t. They dam near went broke trying to make their margin calls. We could see something similar happen here. Remember, these things have been in production longer than Democrats have been socialists. No one accurately knows just how many have been produced. Let alone how many are left in foreign warehouses, just waiting to be sold.

One does not have to be tech savvy to apply common sense to this situation. Computer programs add information to hard drives. What are you going to trust to be more effective at permanently removing the same said information? Another electronic computer program...... Or, bullets and sledge hammers?

The trick is to stock up on the ammo when it was cheap as well.

Never thought I'd live to see the day. And they're round receiver Ishevsk's. I paid $69.95 For Hex Receiver Tula's with all the accessories.

http://www.jgsales.com/mosin-nagant-91-30-round-receiver-rifles,-7.62x54r,-original-finish-1943-izhevsk,-c-r,-used.-p-102449.html

Quote from: Bigbird48 on November-15-18 08:11Shooting the hard drive will not make it so info can not be gotten from them.

I would love to see an actual case that supports that statement.

Quote from: billmeek on November-15-18 14:11That may have been the case with old MFM drives, but any modern hard drive is virtually impossible to recover data after several passes of overwrites.  Take a drive with data, do a DoD 5220.22-M wipe, send it to any recovery company (i.e. Seagate Recovery) and they will not be able to recover the data. NSA Advisory LAA-006-2004 states that a single pass with DoD 5220.22-M renders the data unrecoverable.

I still feel better when they look like the one above.

Quote from: billmeek on November-15-18 10:11
There are a lot of "security tools" that only do a single pass on overwriting data on a disk.  That's why I specified that you need to use a utility that does multiple passes.  There are many good tools available.  I mentioned DBAN because is free, open-source, and works well.

I remember watching a show on police computer forensics. The guy on the show was in charge of a large Police Computer Forensic Lab in a major metropolitan police department. He went on to say all of those programs that, "rewrite" the hard drive with, "zeros or one's" are completely worthless. He said most all prisons have inmates who will testify to the fact of just how well they all work.

He said the only way you can be sure to completely erase a hard drive, is to place it on a rock, and smash it to pieces with a sledge hammer. In my case, employing  high velocity projectiles was both less strenuous, and a lot more fun.

I have had several old desktop computers languishing in my closet for years. One was so old it had Windows 95 in it. Finally my wife wanted rid of them because they were taking up too much space. I didn't want to toss them for fear someone could take the hard drive out and retrieve the information. So I took them out on the patio, pulled them apart, and removed the hard drives.

The other day I took them to the range, along with my Ruger Model 77 Stainless in .30-06. I set them out on a berm at 75 yards, and had at them. The results were all similar to this one. These things are really tough! They're made from a very heavy cast Aluminum housing. The Western Digital models like the one in the photos seem to be the toughest. But the 168 Gr. Sierra Matchking sailed right through, no problem.

The first shot hit just to the left of center, right under the bar code. The next one nicked the edge, but as you can see in the other photo, it blew the whole upper left corner of the housing completely off, exposing the platter and arm. It landed on edge, so I put one edgewise into the right side, and that pretty much finished it off. That last shot blew the unit right over the top of the berm, and I found it about 30 feet on the other side of the berm itself.

The other hard drives all met with a similar fate. It was fun to be able to shoot at something other than paper all the time. And I doubt that anyone will be extracting any information off of them now!

Quote from: Rick_Jorgenson on November-01-18 07:11
Thanks for the in depth review and range report.

All of a sudden a Hi-Power is affordable and moved over to my "Buy as soon as funds will allow" list!  lol!!

If you buy one you won't be sorry. It's a beautiful pistol for the money. Rock solid, and very reliable.

 Tisas Regent Range Report, (400 Rounds)

I got to the range early this morning with the new Stainless Tisas Regent, and gave it a good workout with a total of 400 rounds of various ammunition fed through no less than 6 different magazines. I am happy to report the pistol performed flawlessly. Not a single FTF or FTE, or any type of hiccup of any kind!

Needless to say I was extremely pleased. The 6 magazines that were used were as follows. 2 original Browning Phosphate coated 13 round magazines, with the, "springy thingy" at the bottom, to assist in kicking the magazine clear of the gun. 2 gloss blued 13 round Mec-Gar magazines that were shipped with the pistol. And 2 gloss blued 15 round Mec-Gar magazines that were new in the box.

The magazines were all filled to capacity, and all fed flawlessly in the pistol, regardless of the type of ammunition they contained. With the exception of the Phosphate coated Browning magazines with the spring assist, they did not drop free when released. But all were very easily removed from the pistol when empty. All 6 magazines locked the slide back when the last round was fired.

The ammunition used was as follows. 100 rounds of CCI 115 gr. FMJ Blazer Brass. 100 rounds of Remington brown boxed 115 grain law enforcement training ammunition. (This ammo was the hottest 115 gr. FMJ Ball I've ever shot). 100 rounds of Federal 124 gr. FMJ. And finally 100 rounds of Federal 115 gr. 9BPLE +P+ Hollow Points.

All 400 rounds cycled the pistol perfectly. 4 magazines, (2, 13 round Browning's, and 2, 13 round Mec-Gar's), were shot rapid fire as fast as the trigger could be pulled. "Mag dumps", if you will. This was with the Federal 9BPLE, and was done to test rapid fire functioning. All 4 magazines fed perfectly. The brass was ejected cleanly and about 6 to 7 feet to the right, and 3 feet to the rear, in a nice neat 3 to 4 foot circle. I examined the cases as I gathered them and returned them to the box, and none showed any signs if denting or damage. I would call the extractor on this gun perfect. No problems with it what so ever.

All shooting was done at 25 yards. The sights were adjusted perfectly, printing dead center with a 6 O'clock hold. The gun was warm, but was allowed a substantial amount of time to cool as all 6 magazines were reloaded. The trigger was slightly gritty for the first 100 rounds or so. But it smoothed out nicely as the shooting progressed. And after the last box of ammo went through the gun, it was breaking cleanly and very crisp after a minimum amount of take up.

Overall I couldn't be more pleased with this pistol. It ran with 100% reliability for 400 rounds. With a good variety of different types of 9 MM ammunition. As you can tell from the picture, the gun got quite filthy after 400 rounds. But after a field stripping, and a good cleaning in Kerosene, followed by a good blow drying and re lubrication, it was as clean as when removed from the box.

I'm going to pick up another one of these pistols. I just don't think for the price you can beat them. They are well made, reliable, accurate, and very nice looking pistols. And with Browning ending Hi-Power production, these are as nice of a clone as you're likely to come across.

 

I've been reading nothing but good about this pistol since it came out. Brownell's has them in stock in both black, as well as Stainless Steel. It's not hard Chrome plated like the FN Browning's, but rather a full Stainless Steel pistol. As you know Browning has discontinued the Hi-Power. So this Turkish clone by Tisas is the only one of it's kind in current production in Stainless Steel. (They also offer a model in black Cerakote for slightly less).

https://www.brownells.com/firearms/handguns/semi-auto/regent-br9-9mm-4-6-13-1-prod118691.aspx?avs%7cCartridge_1=APP_9%2bmm%2bLuger&avs%7cMake_3=Tisas

It arrived yesterday at my FFL, and I immediately drove over to pick it up. This is a beautiful gun! Especially for it's modest price of only $569.00. (Brownell's charged a $10.00 handling fee, and my FFL charged $30.00 for the transfer). So the grand total was $609.00 to get it from Brownell's to my kitchen table. Not too bad for a Stainless Steel Hi-Power.

Overall I'm very impressed. The machining and workmanship is impeccable. Very few tool marks on the inside of the slide and frame, and a nice slide to frame fit. The overall fit and finish on the pistol is beautiful! The gun field stripped very easily. It comes with 2, 13 round, polished blue Mec-Gar magazines. They interchanged with all of the other magazines I have for my other 2 Hi-Powers.

I gave everything a good cleaning and oiling. Except for the slide rails, which I greased with Weapon Shield Lithium Grease. It went back together without a hitch. I'm hoping to get it out to the range next week, assuming everything dries out. (It's been raining cats and dogs here for the last several days).

I ordered the Tisas BR9 Hi-Power Essential Reliability Kit from BH Springs Solutions. It gives you an extra extractor, and firing pin face plate. The kit also contains new springs and various roll pins required for installation. It's a good kit with quality parts that's nice to have on hand. I intend to shoot the hell out of this thing, so having a few extra parts for it in stock can't hurt. They could also come in handy for my other 2 Hi-Powers, should any small parts go south. Some of the very early production models of these guns had some issues with extractor breakage. But those were supposedly corrected, and these newer models are good to go.

https://bhspringsolutions.com/tisas-br9-hi-power-/358-tisas-br9-hi-power-essential-kit.html

If any of you guys are wanting a Hi-Power, but waited too long, and don't want to pay the high prices being asked for the used one's, don't be afraid to grab one of these. Quite honestly, for the price, I just don't see how you can go wrong. If this thing shoots half as good as it looks, I'll be a happy camper. Here are a few quick and dirty phone pics.

The lack of quality in bulk packaged ammunition is not only limited to .22 rimfire. I had a member of my local gun club show up one morning with his AR-15, and a fresh box of 1,000 loose packaged Federal XM-193 Ball 5.56 MM ammunition. A large number of the cases had dents in them. And at least a full one third of the cartridges had loosely seated bullets that could be turned in the cases by hand. He didn't fire them for fear the bullets would be set back in the cases from recoil.

He called the outfit he purchased them from to complain. They told him they would, "look into the matter". But because all ammunition sales were final, they could not, (or perhaps to better state it), would not give him a refund. Fortunately he was also a handloader. So I told him to purchase and run the finished rounds through a Lee Factory Crimp Die. He did and that solved the problem.

But this is just another example of how bulk packaging contributes to poor overall quality of the finished product. Needless to say, that was the last box of bulk 5.56 MM ammo he ever purchased. It's just not worth it to screw around with a lot of this crap. Not becoming aggravated is certainly worth something. Shooting is supposed to be an enjoyable sport.

With the exception of the high end European brands like Eley and Lapua, I think most any .22 rimfire ammo made during the shortage is not going to be up to the quality standards of the stuff being made now, or before the shortage began. Ammunition manufacturers were pushing as much product as possible out the door, as fast as they could in order to meet the consumer demands of both the shooters, as well as the hoarders. Of which there were literally millions.

Lines were kept running 24/7, instead of being shut down for routine cleaning, maintenance, and adjustments. And all of this worsened with the now popular loose packaging of the many forms of bulk .22 ammunition. That stuff didn't exist 40 years ago. All .22 ammo back then was packaged in 50 round boxes, and 500 round bricks. Bulk packaging results in much faster production. Which in turn leads to less quality control. Not to mention loose bulk packaging allows the ammo to knock and bang into itself during transport. By both the manufacturer as well as the consumer.

Today even companies like Eley are getting into the bulk packaged .22 L.R. ammunition market. None of this helps in maintaining quality of the finished product. A really good way to prove this to yourself is to look at the bullet of a .22 cartridge from a box of bulk ammo under a good magnifying glass. Then compare it to the bullet in a tightly packaged 50 round box. The bulk packaged bullet looks pretty sorry under magnification.

There are a lot of .22 shooters out there, including myself, that will attest to the fact there are more failures to fire with bulk packaged .22 ammo, than with the more expensive boxed and brick variety. Proper packaging of any product costs additional money. That's why the bagged cereal on the bottom shelf is cheaper than the brand name boxed stuff on the top shelf at the local grocery store. The bottom inch of product ends up being dust.

When you factor all of this in, the bulk packaged product is not necessarily as good of a buy, or as cheap as some people might think.

Quote from: PaducahMichael on September-18-18 07:09
Beautiful! What did you use for gold fill?

https://www.midwayusa.com/product/1100341951/forster-gold-inlay-filling-kit

I gave my Beretta Model 92-F a remake. A nice set of Walnut grips and a bit of gold fill does wonders to take away the cheap, plastic look. Here is a before and after pic.

First off, you can count me in the camp of people who dislike Henry's for the lack of a loading gate on the centerfire models. Those big knurled knobs and huge loading ports look stupid. They are somewhat tolerable on the .22's, because they all have them, and they're small. All of my lever actions, be they .22 or centerfire, are either Winchester, (New Haven Models), or else J.M. manufactured Marlins. Aside from the lack of a loading gate, the other thing I dislike even more, that I haven't heard mentioned, are the cheap painted finishes many of them have. Particularly the .22's.

They chip and scratch very easily, and really look like crap when they do. Many of the centerfire models are blued, and for the price, should be. They seem to look OK if you don't mind the lack of a loading gate. From this thread, it appears many do. The other issue I have with every Henry I've ever handled and shot, are the actions are ALL very rough compared to other lever actions from Marlin, Winchester, or Browning.

If you compare ANY Henry .22 lever gun to ANY Marlin 39-A, Winchester 94-22, or Browning BL-22, the Henry has nowhere near as smooth of an action. They just don't. They're extremely rough, and gritty in comparison. And when anyone shoots a .22 lever gun, they usually shoot a lot because of the low ammo cost. So you notice it even more. And for the price Henry charges for some of their upper grade .22 lever guns, they should be equally as smooth. They're not even close.

I know Henry has a lot of fans, and sells a lot of guns. And that's all well and good to see an American firearms company be financially successful. I just think when it comes to lever guns, the other manufacturers produce far more desirable models.

Brownell's sells the high capacity kit with both the barrel and the magazine tube. It runs $169.99. You could call a few gunsmiths in your area for a quote on what they would charge to install it, before you order. I've never done the job, but I heard it does not require any disassembly of the receiver to install it. If that's the case, I'm guessing they could do the job in an hour or so. Depending on what they charge it shouldn't be too objectionable from a cost standpoint.

However, you have to keep in mind that a lot of the big box stores sell 8 shot Mossberg's for under or around $300.00 on sale. So It might be worth it to keep your gun the way it is, and simply purchase another Hi-Cap model when you can find a good sale on one.

https://www.brownells.com/shotgun-parts/magazine-tube-parts/magazine-tube-extensions/500-high-capacity-shotgun-kit-w-front-bead-sight-prod74622.aspx

Quote from: OV-1D on February-18-18 06:02
  Always wanted one of these but something always takes precedence . Have a Mossberg so it doesn't seem so important , its a beautiful piece .

I'm running the Mossberg 590-A1 Mil-Spec as well as this new Remington. It's a great shotgun. There are some features I like better on the Mossberg. The top tang safety is faster and easier to operate. And I like all the machined, brazed on attachment points of the barrel to the magazine tube. Everything is well thought out, and the gun breaks down for cleaning effortlessly.

I never cared for the cheap, stamped metal, screw on barrel clamp Remington has used in all of their fighting shotguns. It's something they've had trouble getting away from on all of their extended tube riot guns. But I have always liked the machined steel receiver on the 870's, over Mossberg's Aluminum one. The added weight helps long magazine tube shotguns balance better.

Remington only makes a couple of production runs of this gun every year. They are not regularly produced like the Special Purpose Marine Magnum. I've had an E-Mail notification with Davidson's for months on this shotgun. Last week they finally got a small shipment of them. I jumped on it.

The Police Marine Magnum has all of the upgraded parts all the Police Models get. No MIM parts, polished barrel, chamber and receiver, and an all metal trigger group. The Special Purpose Marine Magnum is built on the much rougher Express receiver, and has an MIM extractor, and not milled, and has a Polymer trigger group. It also has a bead front sight, as opposed to the Police Marine Magnum which has fully adjustable rifle sights. It also comes with a padded Butler Creek Ultra Sling with sewn in swivels. The Police Marine Magnum also has larger, stiffer trigger and magazine springs. The magazine spring in the Police Marine Magnum is also electroless Nickel plated to prevent rust.

It is built in the same area, and by the same people all the Police Models are built at the Ilion, New York plant. And is completely hand inspected and test fired before being boxed and shipped. The standard Marine Magnum is built on the Express assembly line. I'm excited to get this weapon, because as I mentioned they are very difficult to find. You can find a few on Gun Broker, and Guns America. But you have to be careful because while some are advertised as Police Marine Magnums, they are not. The order number must say 25047 on the end flap of the box. The standard grade Marine Magnum is order number 25012.

Remington can still pull out of this. But it will take Cerberus Capitol Management being willing to sell at a loss to their investors. That's hard to do without people dumping Freedom Group stock all together. Which will drive them into an even deeper hole. Remington's problem is not it's products, but rather it's baggage. Both financial and legal. Law suits and payouts over the Walker and X-Pro Trigger systems have drained them financially over the years. And all the while most all of the owners including DuPont, took from the company, and added nothing to it in regards to modernization of equipment. All the while that was taking place overpaid union employees were milking them dry.

Add it all up and the old gal has nothing left to give. If they get sold cheap enough to a company with enough venture capital to invest in it, and at the same time be willing to be patient enough before seeing a return on their investment, they could turn the company around. But they also need better marketing. In that they need to stick with proven products that have sold well over the years. And stop with the cheap, non 1911 pistols, and other loser products that no one is currently buying, or is ever going to buy. And of course the, "Trump gun glut" isn't helping anyone in the firearms business. Sales of all the major gun manufacturers is way off, compared to what it's been for the last 8 years living under fear of increased legislation that no longer exists.

I'm a big fan of the CZ-75 platform. And I have several of them in different configurations.  One of my favorites is my CZ-75 in Polished Stainless Steel. It's a beautifully finished weapon. The one thing I never cared for, was they never sold it with a Nickel plated magazine, or floor plate. The blued magazine it ships with just doesn't match the rest of the gun.

I found these beautiful polished Stainless Steel billet machined magazine floor plates available from PPD Billet.com. They come in both matte or polished Stainless Steel, and blue / black oxide finish as well. They really make the gun look so much better. And they're quite reasonable considering the work involved in making them. Mine fit perfectly.

I like doing things to guns that not only improve their looks, but set them apart from everyone else's that you see out there. I'm going to order more of them for my matte Stainless, and black CZ-75's. They're a nice addition to an already beautiful pistol.

http://www.ppdbillet.com/CZ_75_Base_Plate.htm

Beautiful wood with polished steel.... Nothing better!