Three CZ 527 Questions

[12many]

Me again. I am still researching. I don't buy to many rifles so I want to make sure I get the right one for me.

1. I thought The CZ web site shows the CZ 527 American in .223 to be a 3 round magazine and the CZ 527 Varmint to be a 5 round. But now it looks like both are 5 round? Also, gun broker pics show everything as having the long magazine. To me, I don't like the line of the gun as much when the magazine is not flush with the stock. Is everything going to the 5 round mag that hangs down? Also, not sure about twist rates. Web sight might be off. Not sure.

2. How do I get the best looking wood (stock)? Do I only buy from pics or in person? Buds has good prices, but seems like there are no dealers in my town and auctions with pictures may not be pics of the same rifle. Any tips to get great looking wood grain?

3. The stocks on the American and Varmint are more straight than the other models which tend to angle down. Is that due to the use of iron sights verses a scope?

One more . . .
4. I have been looking at other models but still like the CZ. I like savage too, but have a couple rimfires already. Any other models I should like at that are highly accurate and have wood stocks price probably has to be below $800

Thanks for helping.

 

[ricebasher302]

I've never seen anything but a 5-round magazine. Yours is a common complaint against this rifle. Mine was advertised as having a 1-in-9 twist. One of my most accurate loads shoots a 68 gr. match hollowpoint, so without having verified this myself, I tend to believe it. Mine is the varmint kevlar model in .223.

 

[viking499]

1. All should be 5 round (American and Varmint) except for the M1 American which is the 3 round version. Some have not had very good luck with the M1. Stick with the American or Varmint.

2. Luck.

3. Yes.

4. CZ and Savage are good choices. Winchester is another one.

What are you going to do with it? Most rifles will either have a 1:8-9 or a 1:12 twist barrel. That will determine what bullet weights you can shoot.

 

[targetshooter22]

You can try, and I do mean try, to contact CZ Custom and ask for a hand picked stock. This supposedly means they pull up to three (depends on how many they have), and pick the nicest wood. No promises, but supposedly they will try within reason. The answers on the models are correct, as well as the recommendation on Savage as an alternative.

My Varmint model has the faster twist and shoots 55 grain bullets very well. Personally, I like the look of the mag below the stock, but that's me.

 

[12many]

Thanks everyone. I got the M1 American and American versions mixed up.

I am looking around town this weekend.