Remove the FPB.

Period, get that damned thing out of the gun.

Dangers? FPB are more an advent of safety bs than anything else. Yes your gun could fire if you throw it on concrete AND the hammer breaks AND it happens to still hit the firing pin. More likely is the FBP it's self malfunctions at some point making your gun a paper weight.


More to the point:

CZ's with the FPB in them and trigger work are not reliable and IMHO not a gun worth carrying at all. There is a false reset in the trigger with a FPB in it; the gun will reset and you can pull the trigger, hammer falls and nothing happens. The Trigger will reset but the FPB will not. The FPB then dose it's job and keeps the gun from firing.

Taking the FPB out gives you a better reset, less reset travel and a gun that will actually work.

Video makes life easier. I had to send my CZ back to the custom shop to get the damned FPB yanked out.

Removing Firing pin block doesn't require going to CZ custom. Get 2 appropriate roll punches. Knock out first small pin from the larger roll pin in the slide. Now remove larger roll pin and watch out for the firing pin to go flying. Remove firing pin bock and the FPB spring. Now the tricky part. Second pair of hands are helpful. Insert firing pin and spring back in. The flat portion needs to be facing up I think. As the firing pin is inserted and held in place the larger roll pin needs to be inserted. Then the smaller roll pin.

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I really like the FO front sight and tactical rears. It seems I can shoot faster with them than the three dots. That being said if a defensive gun why not tritium night sights. Probably don't need it in most engagements but better to have and not need.

I just dropped off the P-01 to UPS today for it's journey to the custom shop . . . very excited since is the first ever one of my guns to have "work" done. Now what to do about the 3 week quoted wait time ?

Also, Angus Hobdell from CZ Custom has said that they have done tests with the Competition Hammer. They have dropped it 15 feet off a ladder onto a concrete floor ON THE HAMMER and it hasn't gone off. This is with the Shadow, which doesn't have the firing pin block. On my gun, I have the firing pin block removed, an extended firing pin, and comp hammer. I would have no worries carrying it.

Did you remember the note saying, "Please don't safety check by dropping 15' onto hammer"?

FPBs aren't really about safeguarding against being dropped on the hammer. Hammer/sear engagement is responsible for that in single action, and inertial firing pins (see more discussion below) provides a good degree of safety in double action (hammer down).

In terms of "drop safety", FPBs safeguard against being dropped on the muzzle. Firing pins in normal handguns are inertial; they are free-floating aside from held back by a spring. The firing pin has to move a distance forward before contacting the primer; the spring holds it back. Normally, the hammer strikes the firing pin and provides the force to overcome the spring and move the firing pin forward into the primer. However, if the gun were dropped on the muzzle hard enough, the firing pin's own inertia can overcome the spring and strike the primer without any action of the hammer. This is why guns without FPBs that are required to pass drop-tests use stronger firing pin springs and lightweight firing pins.

If you were to drop a single-action on its hammer, it would have to overcome the sear engagement to fall forward and strike the firing pin. Unless you have a light trigger, the only way that is going to happen is if something physically breaks. If you drop a double-action on its (lowered) hammer, it would be unlikely to provide sufficient force to overcome both the FP spring and the FPs own inertia (which now acts in the interest of safety, tending to move the FP down, and hence away from the loaded round in this case).

Wow. So I just got a call from CZ Customs saying they won't remove the FPB due to it making the decocker to unsafe. I'm kind of pissed, since I signed the work order saying they have my written authorization. Which makes me upset since the pistol decocks to half cock position anyway.

I guess I'll start studying up on how to do it myself.

I realize this is YOUR gun, etc, but if it were MY gun, I would take a second to think about what the Custom shop just told you... if they think it is too unsafe, there might be a reason... just saying...

Swapping out for a new gun.

The frames apparently have different cuts to accept decocker guts instead of proper guts. (Can't verify personally, as I've never had a BD detail-stripped, but that's what the CZC folks say.)