[Overpaid Slacker]

Just bought a CZ 75 SP-01 a couple of days ago. I paid $500 (incl. shipping) for a gun that shoots like it cost $900+.

I fired a CZ 75 for the first time in 1985/6 and still remember being ridiculously impressed with it. Not uncommonly called the "world's finest handgun" by folks in the know -- though I wouldn't presume to attach that accolade, as I haven't fired everything else out there.

CZ is the largest small arms manufacturer in the world (IIRC), and the quality shows. I own one of their .22s, which is probably my favorite long gun to take out and shoot, and I'm in love with the CZ 750 (their .308 sniper).

You'd be hard pressed to go wrong with a CZ. The price-for-performance exceeds H&K, FN, Beretta (all of which I think very highly of) and just about anything else I've owned or shot. It's only a matter of time before more folks become familiar with the quality of CZ, and then they'll charge what the market will truly bear for such fine weapons.

JP