I've been Shooting a SP-01 for a couple years now and she's had probably 16-17k rounds down the pipe... on the original slide stop to boot! I've finally gotten to the point, both financially and skill wise, to justify a Dryfire/practice gun and a match gun for my USPSA endeavors. Part of me wanted to get the new hottness ( Shadow 2 ) but the more logical part of me decided that I wanted the gun to feel the same in hand, not have to get a new holster, ect which lead me to find a Shadow 1.
First off, I never thought it would be so hard to find a reasonably priced gun in stock when its successor is starting to hit the shelves. When I did find a decent deal on one it was a Duotone. Hadn't seen many so did my usual google fu and several threads said they had been discontinued a while back due to the silver poly coat flaking. This didn't deter me as it is just a game gun, function over form, so I ordered what I assumed was a New Old Stock Shadow....
... I pick it up yesterday and the year stamp is this year. Sooo is CZ just sending limited runs of these in and not moving them off the discontinued list?
Here's the slide with year stamp:
Went ahead and temporarily threw some CZC thin aluminums I had in the parts bin on until I can get some thin LOK grips in. ( I have midget thumbs and the thin grips make the guns easier to handle)
Ole Faithful will now be my dryfire/practice/backup gun and the Shadow will be my main match gun.
Dryfired for about an hour last night, I definitely appreciate the 85 internals and trigger as well as extended mag release. Probably going to have to pick up a 85 trigger for the SP01. Gun still needs springs, CGW FP, TRS and Pin but she's definitely going to be a good blaster!