I received these slides back today from Nameless Arms. If you are looking for someone with great prices, fast turnaround and great customer service, look no further. They did a phenomenal job and turnaround from door to door was two weeks. They even send high quality pictures of your finished slide to you so you can see the work before it arrives.

The factory sights on the CZ75 D have a lower co-witness with the 407k. I also added the CGW ultra lite kit and CZ85 trigger to this gun. It is a little beast.

The shadow 2 is a direct mount with Glock rear sight cut. Not many companies will do a direct mount on the S2. Yes! You can see a bit of the screws as it enters the slide, but it is absolutely rock solid.

Range test tomorrow….I hope.

You have excellent taste in firearms.

Beautiful handgun. Congrats.

Pretty sweet. Though I will admit that seeing that amount of threads of the mounting screws exposed like that on the Shadow 2 would be disconcerting to me.

*sigh* I miss my CGW built P-01. Why I sold that piece, I have no idea.

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Pretty sweet. Though I will admit that seeing that amount of threads of the mounting screws exposed like that on the Shadow 2 would be disconcerting to me.

A little unconventional, but they are there just to keep the optic in place. The machining is so precise, I had to use a little rubber mallet to tap the optic off and back on when I was installing the rear sight. That is why they have you send the optic with your slide.

If I’m not mistaken, the new Trijicon RCR uses exposed threads on the sides to mount your optic, so no big deal.

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Originally posted by monoblok:
Pretty sweet. Though I will admit that seeing that amount of threads of the mounting screws exposed like that on the Shadow 2 would be disconcerting to me.

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Looks like quality work. Sweet pistols.

Most Excellent!!!!!

usncorpsman, is that a 75D compact slide on a p-01 frame? That is surely a great idea. How did you do that?

That Compact is really, really sharp!!

Nice!
My first optics cut was to mount a Holosun 507k on a CZ SP-01 Tactical. I liked it so much, I did the same to a fully Cajunized P-01. Both pistols are fantastic! My P938 is still my constant companion, but the rest of my Sigs are getting jealous of all the love the CZs are getting. That's not going to change until I can some Sig P2XX slides milled, but to my knowledge nobody offers that service.

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usncorpsman, is that a 75D compact slide on a p-01 frame? That is surely a great idea. How did you do that?

No Sir,

That is a factory gun. Look at all the matching serial numbers on the barrel, slide and frame. It is called a CZ 75d light rail and for all purposes is a CZ PO1. They are identical sans markings. I do have a CZ 75 compact and the slides do interchange .

Thank you usncorpsman for the info. That is a sweeet looking set up for sure. I am a CZ fan but never saw this version anywhere until I read your post. It is nice to know that the slide has enough beef to do an optic cut on it plus the factory sights co-witness well with the Holosun 407k.
Looking forward to your range report.

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Originally posted by monoblok:
Pretty sweet. Though I will admit that seeing that amount of threads of the mounting screws exposed like that on the Shadow 2 would be disconcerting to me.

A little unconventional, but they are there just to keep the optic in place. The machining is so precise, I had to use a little rubber mallet to tap the optic off and back on when I was installing the rear sight. That is why they have you send the optic with your slide.

If I’m not mistaken, the new Trijicon RCR uses exposed threads on the sides to mount your optic, so no big deal.

Trijicon RCR doesn't have exposed threads. The screws are turned from the sides but nothing is exposed.
The issue is not exposed screws but how much thread in the holes is available to keep those screws in place. I have a Shadow 2 like yours milled for RMR/SRO/407/507 but without a rear backup sight. Mine was done in 2019 by CGW and they placed holes slightly differently than yours. It is my match gun and it is approaching 20K rounds in this configuration. The screws absolutely take the load of recoil no matter how tight the pocket is. In fact there is enough empiric evidence that suggests that tight pockets don't matter as much. Based on my experience of running this setup for almost 5 years, I recommend meticulous attention to those screws. Make sure that you have witness marks, loctite them but not over do it, and consider replacing them regularly. Even with that care there still could be issues. Good luck.

Those are too pretty to carry.

YVK,

Thank you for the great insight. Where our guns differ is that there is a boss on the left side of the slide which is also taking part of the recoil. I ran 300 rounds of 115, 147, and 150gr ammo through it today and 100rds two days before. 400rds is nothing, but nothing is loose and my witness marks are still in the same spot. I’ll be sure to keep an eye on them.

I have two small bosses on mine. Mine are small enough that I am not sure if they are load bearing or just locating. This site requires use of a third party web hosts to post pictures, or else I would've posted mine. What CGW did with mine was to place the holes next to the protruding parts of rear serrations, rather than the shallow parts. That allowed some extra metal there. In addition, they centered the optic maybe 1-2 mm off slide's midline, allowing one screw to be fully covered.

My screws backed out at 2000 and 4000 respectively until I put more loctite in. At 12K SRO broke. At 18k one of the screws heads sheared off. I had the screw removed, couldn't get it out myself, remounted, and it is still going strong. You are going to get a lot of mileage out of it, and they are great shooters.