When I owned a SW 59, I never kept the safety on. After racking the slide, I would flick the safety to "safe" which would drop the hammer, then immediately push back up to "fire". This put the weapon in the condition of DA for first shot. I kept the weapon in this condition, in a holster, in a drawer, where it was my primary self defense gun. The DA trigger pull served as the safety mechanism, just like a revolver.
The original CZ-75B is sort of like an old Winchester or Marlin lever action. You have to carefully thumb-down the hammer to the half cock notch. I much prefer the CZ-75BD with the decock lever.
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