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Summary: The description, specs, pricing and photos of the CZ Shadow 2 pistol.

Manufacturer’s Description

The CZ Shadow 2 is a CZ 75-style semiauto pistol built on a steel frame with a steel slide, and chambered in 9mm. It’s CZ’s next-generation Shadow, and CZ says it incorprates the best features of prior Shadow pistols while including a number of enhancements. New features include:

• A higher beavertail and undercut trigger guard to allow your shooting hand to move closer to the gun’s bore axis (and hopefully thereby enhance recoil control);
• a contoured slide that centers more mass near the bore axis to reduce muzzle flip;
  

  The Shadow 2 from the right.

• increased weight at the dust cover/rail to reduce muzzle flip;
• an extended, cold hammer forged barrel;
• a swappable, adjustable, extended magazine release button with three settings;
• wider, angled cocking serrations front and rear;
• new trigger components that CZ says provide smooth double-action pulls and crisp, clean single-action pulls while reducing trigger reset;
• an Arcor nitride finish supplemented with either a black or urban gray polycoat;
• thin, checkered aluminum grips (either blue or black) that match the pistol’s fine frontstrap and backstrap checkering (you can reportedly get fuller rubber grips, too);
• a black HAJO notch rear sight that’s click-adjustable for elevation and drift-adjustable for windage; and
• three magazines.

Standard/hold-over features include:

• An ambidextrous, frame-mount thumb safety;
• a firing pin block safety;
• a safety stop on the hammer; and
• a 1mm fiber optic front sight.

The Shadow 2 reportedly meets IPSC’s Production Division guidelines.

The Specs

MSRP: $1,299–$1,399

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The Shadow 2 from the left.