Ugly Pistol Day at the BUG Match: CZ38

For this month’s BackUp Gun Match, I decided to bring out the CZ38 – one of the top contenders for ugliest service pistol ever adopted. It’s a single-stack, double-action-only .380 with a weirdly bulky grip, so it’s not winning any ergonomic awards either…

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  1. “(…)top contenders for ugliest service pistol ever adopted(…)”
    Now I am wondering what would be matching long fire-arm for usage in 2gunmatch?

    • The CZ38 was double-action only, blowback, had an oversized trigger guard so you could use it while wearing heavy winter gloves, and fired what was at the time about the most powerful cartridge you could safely put in a blowback (as 9mm Ultra and 9 x 18 Makarov hadn’t come along yet).

      Seen in that light, every “odd” thing about it makes perfect sense.

      cheers

      eon

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