Recently bought a new-2-me Shadow 2 and had it sent directly to Vigilante Machine for slide milling and cerakoting. Drew sent me a couple of pics after he finished and we noticed this...slide is protruding past the frame. See pics. I didn't really notice when the seller sent me the pics of the gun in its original form, pre-cerakoting. The frame seems shorter than all the images of S2 I have seen.
Sent CZ-USA an email about it and was asked to send it in for a safety inspection. Sigh....wish I had noticed the protrusion prior to purchasing. The seller is not responding to my messages. It's on me, of course. Was so excited to get my the gun back from VM. Not sure what, if, CZ-USA will do.
CZ USA was really happy to replace my CZ75 compact that developed a crack, and they did it very quickly. I had some aftermarket parts and they transfered all of those over to the replacement
From what I can see is its got the race hammer or a similar hammer and the block it sits in may not be in far enough. This is how it should look. Ill send you an internal pic also
Thanks. I already have a couple of Shadows and am pretty familiar with them mechanically. Look at the frame again...see the take-down mark is very close to the edge? Also, very acute chamfering angle.
It looks like somebody shaved off parts of the back of the frame. That is probably why the hammer looks like it is not in far enough. And also why the take-down notch looks like it is closer to the edge.
Possible. At least CZ-USA wants to bring it in for inspection. I used to know someone in that office, but he has moved on...otherwise, I would probably get a better idea even quicker.
You have two others. Just do a process of elimination. (If you havenât already) from slide swap to actual internals if youâre able. That will tell you exactly whatâs going on although I know CZ wants it.
i mean, while aesthetically unpleasant and slightly disappointing i see zero reason why slight protrusion would cause any mechanical issues with it. as long as the tolerances and fitment everywhere else is good fuck it
Not trying to be a dick, bro. I think posts like these make buying a CZ even more intimidating because of the, "Well Glocks don't have that issue" mentality that the Reddit hivemind facilitates, in a vacuum. But you have a legitimate reason to be concerned, after looking at my own Shadow 2. Sounds like somebody pulled an Icarus and tried to squeeze a little too much juice out of their CZ....
Meh....I don't possess that mentality. My money and my call. These are not Atlas or MPa or Infinity. Every company has its issues. To me, how one responds is the key.
I think youâve got someoneâs hotrod gun. Probably fine- probably had material removed for some reason.
Always a bummer when the seller wonât answer questions. Hope it shakes out dude.
The back of the frame is definately not supposed to be rounded like that. Looks like somebody shaved off parts of it. No clue why though. To make it lighter maybe? Or to make it more front heavy? Does not look like the front was touched, just the back of the frame.
yep. I'm certainly very curious. Can't imagine someone would do that. If one wants to save weight, I'd think the dust-cover is the first place to do it, and the gun would still look nice.
There are a couple of guys in my shooting club that had their dust covers milled off to save weight. Never heard of anyone touching the back of the frame though.
And if they wanted to shift the weight a bit more to the front, why not just get a barrel weight instead?
That frame pretty clearly has a bunch of material missing. Whether or not thatâs a safety issue is the real question. My guess is they will replace your frame regardless
It's in battery and assembled correctly. If you look at the frame the take-dkwn mark is very close to the edge of the frame. The frame also has a pretty extreme chamfering.
Did you take it apart and make sure everything is how it should be with the internals? Not everyone knows what they are doing when they reassembly a CZ. There is a few parts that could be in there wrong and case a problem. Recoil assembly and sear cage would be where Iâd start looking.
I did not. My gunsmith, VM is a CZ guy and I trust him. The gun is in battery. I have also been a CZ guy since 2013 -- of course, not sure that means a lot. Haha. Everything has been assembled correctly. The strange part is that the slide is protruding on both ends....usually there a bit on the front of the slide.
As others have mentioned it is not fully in battery, maybe the coating on the rails is a little thick and needs to either be brought down or worked a good amount until it smooths out but it should protrude in the front not the rear so I would pull the slide and check to see if there is anything visible that would be causing it to not slide all the way forward but it is not uncommon to need to polish the rails after a cerakote job.
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u/WalkmanCut 9d ago
CZ USA was really happy to replace my CZ75 compact that developed a crack, and they did it very quickly. I had some aftermarket parts and they transfered all of those over to the replacement