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Box 171073, Kansas City, KS 66117-0073 |toll-free: 1 (800) 955-4486 | phone: (913) 321-1811 | www.safariclassics.com | [email protected] Duty Ready TORTURE TEST: CZ-USA 75 P-07 DUTY IN .40 S&W. By eric r. poole I photos by Sean Utley www.cz-usa.com 4 cz-usa.com CZ 75 P-07 uite often, American law enforce- ment has depended on testing performed by federal agencies Qand the military to influence what it would issue lawmen. I have family and close friends currently serving or who have served in police work, so I take the issue of providing those on the home front with the best equipment very personally. Knowing that dependable function and accuracy are so vital to an officer’s survival, I decided to make my own determination and see if the P-07 Duty really deserves its name. BACKGROUND CHECK The CZ 75 P-07 Duty represents a new era for CZ pistols. Launched in 2009, it combines the best features from the timeless ideas of Frantisek Koucky (CZ 75) with modern manufacturing processes and user simplicity. Modularity lends variety, and that is what today’s consumer market simply expects. The P-07 is based on one of the most copied (second only to the Model 1911) pistols in the world, the CZ 75. Development of the Duty was achieved in just three years, but its signature detail, the Omega trigger mechanism, dates back 10 years ago. It was first integrated into the CZ 75 B in 2008 and is just one component that distinguishes the P-07 from other service pistols. Seven nations have already chosen to place the P-07 Duty into the holsters of their respective uniformed officers. Even before this article, the Duty had been subjected to numerous torture tests, the most extensive being the lab work performed in Slavi ˇcín. It documented the performance of one new model and another that had just passed a complete lifecycle test. Before the Czech Republic’s police would adopt the new P-07, the pistol had to undergo a scientific evaluation that put the same two pistols through several series of operational tests under extreme conditions. The most demanding included a dusting of each pistol, both in and out of a holster (while free of any protective lubricant), shooting during and after simulated rain, firing under high and low temperatures, www.cz-usa.com cz-usa.com 5 once it waS clean of oil, i ran 10 magazineS of 12 roUndS throUgh the p-07 with no malfUnctionS. it, I looked closely and could only see that it appeared as though the bullet nose had somehow caught on the chamber during entry. But this wasn’t the time to pass judgment. The pistol was new, I had loaded the magazine to maximum capacity, and the only lubrication was what was put on at the factory. My conclusion at this point was just that it had to be broken in, and I didn’t experience another malfunction throughout the remainder of the accuracy test. The accuracy test revealed that this particular pistol seemed to favor the 180-grain bullet weights. I was a bit perplexed, however, that the 180-grain TAP load from The Duty completed Hornady, one of the the accuracy test best defense loads with a number of groups measuring ever, didn’t print two inches. This well with the P-07. particular test gun Functioning wasn’t favored .40 S&W a problem. Interest- loads with 180-grain bullets. ing also was that the cheapest of the loads I purchased functioning after being pulled TORTURED (the Remington UMC) rivaled the through sand and immersed in ACCURACY—This torture test began venerable Federal Hydra-Shok. The mud, and being dropped in several with an accuracy test at 25 yards. best group fired from the Federal ways to verify the dependability of Right out of the box, it fired and lot measured 1.98 inches, while the the safety systems. Aside from the jammed on the second round, which Remington UMC ammunition re- expected cosmetic damage, results was a Winchester PDX1. Inspecting corded a similar best of 2.01 inches. determined that the These two loads Duty passed without ACCURACY RESULTS also produced the any defects or Bullet Avg. Muzzle Avg. best averages after failures. But the P-07 .40 S&W Weight (gr.) Velocity (fps) Group (in.) five five-shot groups adopted by other na- were fired from 25 Remington UMC JHP 180 952 2.77 tions is chambered yards. Is the P-07 Federal Hydra-Shok JHP 180 912 2.28 in 9mm, while most accurate enough for Hornady TAP FPD 180 940 4.79 U.S. agencies issue duty? Certainly. Winchester PDX1 JHP 165 1,082 3.59 a sidearm cham- Magtech SCHP 130 1,177 4.3 bered in .40 S&W. Is FUNCTION- Speer Gold Dot GDHP 180 969 3.18 this new generation Keeping with the of pistols ready for Notes: Accuracy is the average of five five-shot groups fired at 25 yards from a tests performed by sandbag rest. Velocity is the average of five rounds measured 10 feet from the service on American muzzle using a Shooting Chrony Gamma Model.