CZ Shadow 2

Name: CZ Shadow 2
Brand: CZ

CZ lists the Shadow 2 as a steel-framed SA/DA 9x19 mm competition pistol with a 120 mm barrel, duralumin grips, a fibre-optic front sight with height-adjustable rear, and a 17-round magazine.

Record / cz-shadow-2

Shadow 2

CZ · Shadow 2

Source verified

Scope note: SKU 91257, the 17-round base gun, read from CZ's own product object. IMPORTANT SOURCING NOTE: use czfirearms.com, NOT cz-usa.com. cz-usa.com now redirects to czfirearms.com and answers every path with the same Next.js shell — homepage, series page, product page, robots.txt and sitemap.xml all returned identical bytes — so it reads as a manufacturer that publishes nothing. czfirearms.com serves real per-page content with a Strapi payload embedded, declares a working sitemap in robots.txt, and returns real 404s. THE PAGE CARRIES TEN OTHER PRODUCTS AND MIXING THEM FABRICATES A GUN: alongside this record's single variant it embeds the Shadow 2 Target 5" (SKU 91246) and 6" (91247), Orange OR and Carry — each a separate model with its own product page — plus the CZ 75 BD, 75 Compact, 75 D PCR Compact, SP-01 and SP-01 Tactical, every one of them in the same attribute shape. A flat parse of the payload reported SKU 91248 with a 900 g weight, rubber grips and a decocker as this pistol's specifications; those belong to a CZ 75. The extractor therefore anchors on the single primary product object and lists the rest separately. All of them are separate listings under the base-model rule, as are the Shadow 2 OR, SA and Compact. Every figure here was confirmed by two independent parses of the payload agreeing value for value. CZ is the richest structured source in the directory: every measurement carries both a metric and an imperial value with its unit, so NOTHING on this record is converted, and it publishes separate single-action and double-action trigger pulls — this is the first record to use a DA/SA trigger-pull pair, and the first outside Glock to use weightWithEmptyMagazine, which CZ names itself so the value needs no basis note. Overall height does carry one, because CZ does not say whether it includes a magazine. TWO PUBLISHED FIGURES THAT DO NOT RECONCILE, BOTH RECORDED AS PUBLISHED: 1330 g is 46.9 oz, not the 46.5 oz CZ prints beside it (46.5 oz is 1318 g). Neither is flagged converted, because neither was converted by this directory — the ~12 g gap is CZ's own, and flagging one would misrepresent whose arithmetic it is. A MANUFACTURER-VS-MANUFACTURER CONFLICT ON BARREL LENGTH, DISCLOSED RATHER THAN RESOLVED: the retired cz-usa.com listing (SKUs 91254 and 91256, Web Archive capture 2017-01-01) gives a 4.89 in barrel and an 8.53 in overall length, where the current page gives 120 mm / 4.7 in and 217 mm / 8.5 in. The overall lengths agree — 8.53 in is 216.7 mm — but the barrel figures differ by about 4 mm, and 4.89 in is the number that circulates most widely for this pistol. This record follows the current product page under the same rule applied to the G29 Gen5, G41 and G17L, and the archived listing is cited so the disagreement is checkable. Ignition IS recorded here, unlike the TaurusTX 22, and the distinction is the whole point: Taurus's striker block is a safety component on a different axis, whereas CZ's owner's manual states the mechanism itself — "The hammer is cocked, released and the pistol fired by one pull of the trigger" (p. 6) — so ignition is sourced to the manual and not to the product page, which never classifies it. Operating system is unrecorded: the manual calls the pistol "a semi automatic handgun equipped with locked breech system" (p. 4), which is a locking method rather than one of this directory's operating-system classes, and CZ never says recoil- or gas-operated. A NEAR MISS WORTH KNOWING: the manual gives a factory trigger-pull setting of 10 N (p. 10) under a heading reading "IT ONLY APPLIES TO THE CZ SHADOW 2 TARGET VARIANT", so that figure does not reach this record — read the heading, not the match. The manual otherwise corroborates the product page: its version table (p. 6) lists the Shadow 2 as SA/DA with a manual safety and, unlike the Carry, no decocker and no firing pin safety, and p. 4 describes the manual safety as ambidextrous, a detail the product page omits and which is therefore left out of the controls row rather than blended into a product-page-sourced value. Year introduced is unrecorded: no launch source was found on the current news index, in the 190 archived cz-usa.com news URLs, or on the archived product page, following the G42, G43, G44, TX22, P365 and PDP precedent. Manufacturer size class and directory frame class are unset; CZ publishes neither, and classifying a pistol on its measurements is what the G44 rule forbids. Slide finish is unrecorded: the current listing publishes none, and the retired page's prose about a nitride finish is not on the source this record follows. The en-US and international pages were compared and are identical. Also published and unrecorded for want of a schema field: a steel frame, duralumin grips, a 3–4 mm trigger reset, trigger travel given separately per action mode, an unthreaded barrel, and a $1,399 price.

Reference fields

Manufacturer	CZ^[1]
Manufacturer series	Shadow 2
Firearm category	Handgun^[1]
Chambering	9x19mm Parabellum^[1]
Manufacturer chambering	9 × 19^[1]
Generation	Not yet verified
Directory frame class	Not yet verified
Manufacturer listing	Listed on CZ as SKU 91257^[1]
Year introduced	Not yet verified
Manufacturer action label	SA/DA^[1]
Ignition	Hammer-fired^[2]
Trigger action	Double-action / single-action^[1]
Overall dimensions	217 × 34 × 157 mm / 8.5 × 1.3 × 6.2 in (height: magazine state not stated by CZ)^[1]
Barrel length	120 mm / 4.7 in^[1]
Weight with empty magazine	1330 g / 46.5 oz^[1]
Magazine capacity	Standard: 17; no optional capacities listed by the source^[1]
Trigger pull	46 N / 10.3 lb (double-action); 15 N / 3.4 lb (single-action)^[1]
Slide finish	Not yet verified
Controls	Manual safety and a safety notch on the hammer; fibre-optic front sight with a height-adjustable rear visor; duralumin grips on a steel frame^[1]
Warranty	Tiered CZ-USA warranty to the original retail purchaser with proof of purchase: five years on mechanical and functional parts under normal use and proper maintenance, one year on wooden parts and surface finish, and a transferable limited lifetime barrel warranty for firearms manufactured in 2020 or later once enrolled through the CZ Customer Club^[3]
MSRP	Not recorded

Verification boundary: Published technical data are rounded, may not reflect manufacturing tolerances, and may change without notice. MSRP is not recorded: most cited product pages do publish a price, but it changes without notice and independently of the specification, so this directory has no field for it and the row stays blank rather than carrying a figure that would silently go stale.

Evidence tiers backing this record: Manufacturer. Unmarked values come from manufacturer documentation; any value drawn from a lower tier is labeled inline with that tier. Where two sources disagreed, the higher tier was recorded and the disagreement noted.

Sources

[1]
CZ Shadow 2 9×19 17r. — specifications (SKU 91257)Manufacturer Manufacturer product page
Accessed 2026-08-12
[2]
CZ Shadow 2 User Manual (p. 4 locked breech and ambidextrous safety, p. 6 version table and hammer ignition, p. 10 Target-only trigger setting)Manufacturer Manufacturer owner's manual (PDF)
Accessed 2026-08-12
[3]
CZ-USA Warranty Information — tiered five-year, one-year and transferable lifetime barrel coverageManufacturer Manufacturer support page
Accessed 2026-08-12
[4]
CZ Shadow 2 — retired cz-usa.com listing (SKUs 91254 / 91256; cited for the 4.89 in barrel length this record does not follow)Manufacturer Manufacturer product page (retired site) · Web Archive capture
Accessed 2026-08-12 · Captured 2017-01-01 from http://cz-usa.com/product/cz-shadow-2