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Got this just a few weeks ago. It's replacing my Sig Sauer P226, which has a grip that I've never really been happy with. The CZ SP01 Shadow grip (which appears to be the same as a standard CZ 75 grip, but is slightly different and allows a slightly higher hold) fits me very well. As it does several others I know who now use one.

I've been able to try it out a bit, and have so far shot somewhere around 700 rounds thru it without a single failure of any kind. This has been with a variety of old hand loads I had laying around, plus factory ammo from Sellier & Bellot, Blazer, Geco (Ruag), Ruag produced police ammo, and Fiocchi produced 9mm NATO. It's eaten everything without a single hickup. With several of the ammo varieties, the groups have been down to an inch at 25 meters. Can't complain about that.

ambidextrous safety.

Fiber optic front sight is very quick to acquire when the shooting is fast and up close.

Cocked for single action. The both the double action and single action trigger on the Shadow is in a whole other league than any other CZ DA/SA pistol.

The extended mag release is pretty obvious, but also the safety is more pronounced than on a standard CZ 75.

It comes with three 18 round mags, but I got a couple of extra in addition.

As far as I've understood, the only place that imports these to the US is CZcustom.com, who specialize in IPSC shooting gear. Which is what I got this pistol for in the first place.

I have however just completed a PPC qualification course with it, and it worked well for that too.

To sum it up, so far I have nothing negative to say about this gun.

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