I do have a CZ RAMI! You have good taste in guns. I also have a couple other carry options because, well, a girl sometimes dresses her gun to her clothing. I have been known to carry the 1911 style guns "cocked and locked" and have practiced thumbing the safety during the draw stroke. If you train for it, the safety doesn't slow you down.
Yeah, I think the whole CZ line is generally underrated. Well-made, reliable weapons. We have two RAMIs, one poly (my wife's) and one alloy (mine). I bought two poly versions in the same purchase like six or seven years ago. One had a burr develop on the chamber block that fouled against the ejection port of the slide, and locked itself closed after maybe 50 rounds the first time out. Called CZ, they authorized sending it in for warranty and overnighted an overnight shipping label, they called back the same day they received it to tell me that they didn't want to try to fix it and I could have
my choice of
any handgun in their line for my troubles. I was tempted to upgrade to a 75 (B, P-01 or P-07), but I had already bought a bunch of leather and mag carriers, as well as extra mags, for the RAMI, so I stuck with it, except went for the alloy model as a replacement, which was an upgrade in and of itself. I had my shiny new alloy RAMI delivered exactly 7 days after my initial call to them. Not only are their weapons well-made, but their customer service is outta this world!
As far as practicing with safety on and being just as fast and proficient with it in that condition, it does apply as more or less the same between the RAMI in cocked and locked mode and a 1911 style weapon, but it doesn't compare so well between the RAMI and my S&W 4563TSW. The lever on the .45 is easy enough to index, but it's direction of travel is opposite from the RAMI's, and the length of travel is ~70° compared to the RAMI's ~10° in the opposite direction,
and the RAMI's safety is very thin and not so easy to index.
There's just no need for me to change what has worked well for very close to 40 years for me. More than just training for the mechanics of adding another movement to my draw, I'd have to retrain my long-standing and oft-practiced muscle memory, which at my age, is probably better than my mental memory! LOL
BTW, it wasn't hard to guess what weapon you had. There might be some examples out there somewhere, but I've never heard of another true DA/SA weapon with the same external safety features, and you described the RAMI's very well and was easy to recognize. :biggrin:
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