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glad to see more people acquiring these. they are a steal.
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So I brought mine out that I just acquired and overall I'm happy with the gun itself, there was one failure to fire (ZQI 9mm ammo) shooting the second magazine, none after that (about 90 or 105 rounds in total--6 or 7 mags). I'm not sure if it was a light primer strike or if the ammunition itself was at fault, from what I can remember there seemed to be a normal indentation on the primer. ZQI by-and-large has been great reliable ammo so it's surprising to me that I'd possibly gotten a bad round with it but it's possible certainly.
To the gun's credit it fed, fired and ejected everything (except that one ZQI round) including Tula steel case and a bunch of different HP rounds (Liberty Defense, Federal Hydra Shok, etc.)so that's a very good sign. Had one ejected piece of brass come back toward my face but that was the only one, and it might have been due to crappy ammo. No big deal.
Double action naturally is heavy and a bit long for me but the SA is pretty good. I like it.
The gun seems to be shooting low and to the left at 25 yards when I aim for center of mass on the target. Not sure what everyone else's experience has been thus far. Might have to drift the sights.
My only real complaint is the two included 15 round magazines are EXTREMELY stiff and difficult to load by hand. RIDICULOUSLY. I wish they would have included a mag loading tool. I don't know if anyone else has seen and experienced this with their mags, and I really hope that not all Zastava CZ 999 mags are like this, but I suspect they probably are. I'm hoping they will loosen up at least a bit with some repeated use because having to load them by hand (at least for me) has been a real bear and unfairly detracts from the enjoyable experience of shooting the gun. I thought Glock 17 and Canik TP9 magazines were tough to load to capacity by hand, and they are, but they are NOTHING like this. Not for nothing, but it's only a 15 round mag...encountering serious stiffness on loading the 6th or 10th round in the mag is kind of ridiculous. I did disassemble the mags BTW and make sure there wasn't any thick grease like cosmoline or some kind of grit in there, but they were still pretty stiff to load again afterward.
Overall I like the gun, I just hope the mags loosen up some over time, and that if I buy a spare it won't be as insanely tight and hard to load as the two that came with the gun.