jwai86 wrote:No1Mk3 wrote:G'day Florey55,
Actual year of manufacture is almost impossible to know for all early CZ75's. The best you can do is year of introduction for the variants, ie: Short Rail 1975 to 1980, Long Rail 1980 to 1993, CZ75 B 1993 to Present etc. As to performance, there is a reason CZ pistols were, and to a large extent still are, very popular in all forms of handgun competition is due to their capability and price point. A 75 B in good hands will match a SP-01 any day, but in even hands you would want the Shadow. My CZ52 out of the box would equal them all for accuracy but is nowhere near a competitive pistol anymore. Buy a 75 or the ambidextrous 85, and enjoy it. Perhaps if you want to hunt you may find one of the scarce Single Action only CZ75's, Cheers.
I was under the impression that you could find the year of manufacture by looking at the two digit number next to the ejection port.
On Brno rifles, and CZ rifles. I have edited this post, jwai86 is correct the pistols are dated, but not by serial as I knew but by 2 digit marks like the Brno 22 as he posted. On CZ52 accepted for military like mine use there is a date of acceptance on the right frame usually, but not always, equals date of manufacture, On CZ75's the date is stamped in a box to the left of the port, on later CZ-USA it can be found to the left of the serial on the slide, but not on the frame so if you change slides you lose the date. Something worth noting.