I have written a couple of posts reviewing different firearms and would like to comment a little about the CZ P10. For background purposes, I am an owner of a shooting range in Texas and we have a large rental fleet. We track cleaning, rounds fired, through the firearms. When I comment on firearms, my opinion is skewed versus most people because I tend to value durability and reliability over everything else.
We have two CZ P10s in our rental fleet the optics ready F (full frame) and the optics ready C (compact frame). The F is currently at 62k rounds fired since we put it in service in early 2023. The C is at 74k rounds and also went into service in early 2023. Both of these pistols have joined a really short list of firearms that I would describe as hyper reliable. One of the things that we do with new service pistols is not clean them. We let customers shoot them so that we can get a sense of a maintenance schedule. So if a pistol starts malfunctioning around 4k rounds, we will note it and spend 10 minutes giving it a quick clean. Both of the CZs have not been cleaned and almost have 140k rounds through them. The only firearms that we have that have gone over 50k rounds without failure are all pistols and the list is Glocks, S&W M&P 2.0, Walther PDP, and now the CZ P10s. (I did not include the HK VP9, it threw an optic down range at around the 30k round count which we count as a failure).
For me, I really like the CZ. It has a low bore axis, good ergonomics, okay sites, slide serrations, adequate grip, nothing that screams to me that I need to change. Like most of the polymer striker fired pistols the trigger now has a better feel broken in versus when it was new. For the money, the CZ P10 may be the best pistol in class because we sell both for less then $500 and have a couple of sales each year that gets the number down closer to $400.
We have two CZ P10s in our rental fleet the optics ready F (full frame) and the optics ready C (compact frame). The F is currently at 62k rounds fired since we put it in service in early 2023. The C is at 74k rounds and also went into service in early 2023. Both of these pistols have joined a really short list of firearms that I would describe as hyper reliable. One of the things that we do with new service pistols is not clean them. We let customers shoot them so that we can get a sense of a maintenance schedule. So if a pistol starts malfunctioning around 4k rounds, we will note it and spend 10 minutes giving it a quick clean. Both of the CZs have not been cleaned and almost have 140k rounds through them. The only firearms that we have that have gone over 50k rounds without failure are all pistols and the list is Glocks, S&W M&P 2.0, Walther PDP, and now the CZ P10s. (I did not include the HK VP9, it threw an optic down range at around the 30k round count which we count as a failure).
For me, I really like the CZ. It has a low bore axis, good ergonomics, okay sites, slide serrations, adequate grip, nothing that screams to me that I need to change. Like most of the polymer striker fired pistols the trigger now has a better feel broken in versus when it was new. For the money, the CZ P10 may be the best pistol in class because we sell both for less then $500 and have a couple of sales each year that gets the number down closer to $400.
