I'm almost ashamed to say this, but...

[ez bake]

I think I like shooting my CZ P-01 more than my Sig P228r.

I don't know if its the smaller grip, but I can manipulate it faster in decocking, dropping/changing mags, my grip seems more natural and faster (and I forgot how well the CZ rubber grip panels grip - though it is a pain when they get hold of your undershirt in an IWB holster and start pulling it out).

Aside from the difficulty in slide-manipulation due to the slide-in-frame design of the P-01, it might well be the perfect gun for my tiny clown hands.

I actually stopped carrying the P-01 a few years back due to not having the right holster for it and the beaver-tail spearing me in my side constantly, but I've since got a different holster and have started carrying it as much if not more than the P228r.

I never thought I'd sell the P228r, but I'm really thinking of getting another P-01 for the wife and if I'm not going to carry the P228, then...

Man, I fell like I should be kicked out of the fanboy club or something now.

 

[bratch]

Aside from the difficulty in slide-manipulation due to the slide-in-frame design of the P-01, it might well be the perfect gun for my tiny clown hands.

This is one of the main reasons I sold my CZs. I really liked them other than that.

 

[okie98]

Doesn't surprise me at all. I gave up on double stack Sigs many years ago. My short stubby fingers are just too short.

 

[ronny]

Don't be ashamed. The P-01 is a class act.

 

[udiablo]

EZ,

This will sound like somethin from the 70s, but if it feels good, use it.

Not all of us have large paws, and while that Sig has a little prestige with the name, it ain't right for everybody.

I have the opposite problem (my hands are large).

Important thing is to shoot, practice often.

 

[LightningCrash]

medium hands here and the CZ is juuuust right. The Witness large frame is just a hair too big. I can thumb the safety off no problem, but thumbing it on takes just a hair too much edge of my thumb.

Never had a problem with the slide on my Witness, but it does have much larger slide cuts than any CZ.
Might see if a smith can do something to make the slide more grippy for you.

 

[n423]

CZ is a nice gun.

 

[ez bake]

Well - while I've never questioned the reliability of my CZ, I don't think its nearly the gun the P228 is. I've got a little more than 400rds through the CZ but its mostly been a secondary carry gun.

I've got around 700rds straight with no cleaning (after dropping mags in the dirt/mud, training in the rain, etc...) in my P226 Frankenstein gun (P226 Blackwater frame/barrel w/Combat slide), and around 1100rds total with not a single malfunction other than the slide not locking back on my wife/daughter (limp-wristing) with regular mags, or on two occasions not locking back on the empty 20rd hi-cap mags.

It has yet to FTF, FTE, light-strike, fail into or out of battery, or fail to cycle in any way other than that. I shoot the P228 every now and then, but not nearly as hard, but I trust it just the same (maybe even more since its a roll-pin west-German slide/frame).

I don't know, I got the 228 out tonight and I honestly think with some thinner grips, it might fit my hand perfectly.

 

[tm8634]

you should be ashamedbad bad boy...

 

[skyydiver]

I certainly liked everything about my 75B much better than the 226 I owned. I too have girlish hands. I see the CZ as the superior gun. The price tag doesn't make me ashamed to say it.