Well, shooting the new CZ-75B went great. All I shot were my own reloads using my own cast 124-gr LRN bullets and 3.4-grains of Titegroup. That ammo cost me about $8~$9 to make 200 loaded rounds.
One hundred sixty rounds went thru without a hiccup from a pistol that I took straight from the box and went shooting with it. It started raining but I kept shooting until I wanted to get all my stuff inside and get the bedsheet off the ground that was catching my all brass. The pizza boxes I was using for targets are still out there against a hay bale and they are pretty soggy now.
Accuracy was exactly as I expected. At 20' using a two-hand hold the CZ and I were keeping every round inside 2" shooting offhand unsupported about every two seconds. I basically use the white underside of the box and fire my first round into it, then use that hole as my target. As I progress, the group of holes becomes the target and that tends to open things up somewhat.
The empty brass cases were piling up in a very tight circle about three feet in diameter and about five feet straight out. It may seems crazy that I care about that but it really matters for me as a reloader. And when the ejection is very consistent it says a lot about the fit of the gun parts and the overall quality of the design. I have owned guns that spewed brass all over creation and I never could tweak the durned things to pile the brass up like I wish.
Of course, the rubber grips felt very sure even when racking the slide with wet hands to chamber a round and the slide serrations under the rear sight are very sure-feeling as well.
No pics of my groups cuz the camera is in the trunk of the Charger out there in the rain and the targets are falling apart.
Field stripping the pistol allowed me to examine for the first time the inside machining marks. In all honesty, the interior of the CZ is almost as smooth as the outside. Only very faint lines were left by the CNC process, and there is very little evidence of bright rub marks so far on the slide-to-frame contact areas. I'm sure that as time goes on there will be more internal polishing of contact areas but I am glad to see there are no alarming high spots or burrs.
This pistol feels, quite honestly, just like the CZ-clone UZI Eagle of which I have done a report here on this forum. Balance, trigger, sight picture, recoil, shot recovery, pointability... all were the same as expected. The Eagle is now gone, traded in toward the CZ. There was little point in owning two guns so much alike, and the Eagle had a polygonal barrel which didn't shoot cast lead bullets as well as jacketed ones after a couple hundred rounds. This CZ has conventional land-and-groove rifling which is a big plus for my cast bullet shooting.
I'll shut up now, but let me say that it was a very satisfying first experience with my new CZ-75B.