BULLET
POINTS
H E CZ P -10 C
ARTICLE BY: BRODY KENNEN
PHOTOS BY: KENNEDY RUNYAN
A dedicated customer base will let a company
know what they desire in future products. At that
point, you will see one of two things happen. The
company will either listen fully and apply all the
changes appropriately or the company will go
their own way. There are two sub-categories to the
latter. The company will apply changes in their own
manner or not at all.
With that said, Česká Zbrojovka’s P-10 series of
handguns are everything that the Glock should
have been, when they dropped the Generation-4
line, nearly a decade ago. You can go to any Glock
post on Facebook and see a laundry list full of
simple changes that dedicated buyers would like
to see. I chose the CZ P-10C Suppressor-Ready
variant to replace my Glock-19. I am hoping that
G-Code Holsters expands either the Phenom or
INCOG series of IWB holsters soon to include the
P-10. The P-10C Suppressor-Ready is boxed with
two extended 17-round magazines, multiple back-
straps, cleaning kit and lock, and owner’s manual as
most other firearms come with.
The ergonomics are where the P-10C goes the
distance against the Glock. The controls are fully-
ambidextrous without the option either being
omitted completely (slide stop) or having to be
swapped (magazine release). Both controls are
enlarged, but still refined and contoured enough
that they do not hang-up on clothing. On the
Glock, many people enlarge both controls. On the
SIG P320, it lacks full ambidextrous controls, but I
haven’t had an issue with needing to enlarge them.
On the flip side of the P320 coin, the original grip
was good, but the X-Carry grip was unmatched by
comparison.
The magazine releases are smaller than on the
Glock Gen-4 line, but shapelier: angled in such
a way that you can press from below to engage a
release as easily as from the side directly. The slide
stop / releases are twice the size of the Glock’s. The
top of both sides protrudes away from the firearm
for ease of manipulation: providing a shelf that the
thumb will press down on when dropping the slide
in that manner. Finally, because the takedown is
identical to a Glock, the takedown levers are larger
on the P-10C.
Grip is assured with the P-10C, to put it simply.
The grip texture is best described as spiked. I
have encountered no slippage while shooting the
handgun. It is a highly aggressive texture and may
cause discomfort or abrasions to dehydrated skin
during prolonged strings of fire. A test of usage with
electrical/skater tape lessened the abrasiveness
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without permanently altering the grip and without
any loss of grip. The pattern is more abrasive at the
front and back compared to the sides. The frame
also has stippled points for thumb placement, when
the combat grip is utilized, but I do feel that those
points could have been as abrasive as the front and
rear of the grip.
Furthermore, the P-10C feels like a full-size
handgun. Comparing the Glock-17 and Glock-19,
the G17 feels better in the hand and the P-10C
better still. The grip on the Glock-19 feels like
a brick with a hunched-back. The trigger guard
doesn’t feature a proper undercut where the
middle finger rests and the beavertail is nearly
nonexistent. When drawing under duress, you may
experience slide bite due to that. The P-10C’s grip is
slightly deceptive due to the depth of grip that can
be obtained. The undercut and the beavertail are
deeper and makes the handgun feel as if it has a
lower bore axis than it does. The slide isn’t any taller
than the 9mm Glocks, but it’s the suppressor sights
that produce the deception. Overall, the handgun
fits in the hand far more naturally.
The slide is emblazoned with properly angled
slide serrations. The depth of these serrations is
not too shallow and not too deep. They are slightly
deeper than what can be found on the rear of Glock
slides. Unlike the serrations on the Glock, they cover
nearly fifty-percent of the length of the slide and are
angled for proper manipulations. As this variant is
marketed for suppressed usage, the handgun does
come with the appropriately raised suppressor-
height sights. They are Tritium three-dots for night-
time shooting. They do not clear the AAC Ti-Rant
9mm suppressor that I regularly utilize and instead
heighten evenly with the top of the can. The rear
sight would work well as an emergency slide racker
if the shooter was injured.
As for the trigger. It’s as simple as this. It’s not the
lightest, but it is one of the smoother stock triggers
on the market. It is not squishy, gritty and it does
have a problem with creeping or stepping. While
my Glock-19 does not exhibit these issues either, it
feels several ounces heavier.
“Show me a guy who says Glocks are perfect and
I’ll show you a guy with a modified Glock.”
That was a quote from YouTube commenter,
martinitime1975, on GarandThumb’s CZ P-10C
review video. An interesting note is that GT’s P-10C
is in the same serial number range as the Omaha
Outdoors gun, but he never mentioned having any
of the problems. So, the point of the quote. My P-10C
came out to around $520, after taxes, from one of
my local FFLs. That’s the same ballpark as what I’ve
paid, as a civilian with no discounts, for several of
my Glocks. Considering the additional ergonomic
features that you receive in the P-10C versus the
Glock and you’ll wonder why these things haven’t
been standard on the Glock for decades.
The only semi-legitimate complaint that might
be uttered by some is that the takedown in the
same at the Glock -- specifically the fact that you
must pull the trigger to disassemble it. My rebuttal,
to that point, is to get four of your good friends to
come over, during every disassembly, to visually
verify that the firearm is unloaded prior to the
disassembling. If you’re really that worried about
it...
The fact that Glock hasn’t answered the numerous
calls, for these simple ergonomic changes, has
spawned a plethora of companies specifically in
the business of custom modifications for Glocks.
Agency Arms, JagerWorks, Wilson Combat, and
Zev Technologies are just a few of the companies
recommended for Glock custom work. The cost of
just a slide modification package, which will nearly
match the P-10’s stock slide, you ask? That would be
$250 minimum, on average.
In part two, we will cover how the handgun did
at the range. So far, the CZ handles like a dream.
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