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I just got back from my favorite local gunshop. They had ordered two CZ 452 American heavy barrel models for stock, and partly because I had requested one.
I really wanted to buy one of the .17 HMR varmint models, the model they got in from the wholesaler was a heavy barreled american, which was a nice cross between the american and the varmint model. Both guns had nice looking walnut wood stocks and a 21" heavy barrrel.
I go to work the bolt on the first one and its horribly rough. Not only is it rough but it wont close!!!!! I check to see if the safety is on (I had already looked and it was not) its not of course. I hand the gun back to the proprietor and he pushes the bolt hard forward and closes it. So I take it back again puzzled. (Now I have a 452 special in .22lr. that I bought back in July, and the bolt is a smooth as glass, the action on it is fabulous as good as my Anschutz 64).
So I take the bolt out of the 452 American Varmint to see what the problem is and there are huge chatter marks on the inside edges of the rails /ways. not only that but now I can see that the machining on the last 1/4" is CROOKED, Yes crooked which is causing the bolt to bind since its not all the way forward. You have to force the bolt forward to close it, and even then it takes about 20 lbs of force.
So thay bring out the second one they ordered, and its even worse.
I suggested that they should send both guns back to the wholesaler, and they tell me that they dont want to "waste money on the shipping". Other CZs that they have received were similar, some much better and some worse. But that no one had brought one back with a problem.
Needless to say I thanked them but passed on buying either one.
They were selling them for $389 out the door.
I have to wonder if the machining was that crooked, if the guns were properly headspaced at the factory, I have never seen a bolt .17 HMR blow up in someones face, but thanks I dont want to be the first.
Well anyway the owner said that when they get the next batch in he will call me, and I can check them out.
So what is going on with CZ's QC????????
I really wanted to buy one of the .17 HMR varmint models, the model they got in from the wholesaler was a heavy barreled american, which was a nice cross between the american and the varmint model. Both guns had nice looking walnut wood stocks and a 21" heavy barrrel.
I go to work the bolt on the first one and its horribly rough. Not only is it rough but it wont close!!!!! I check to see if the safety is on (I had already looked and it was not) its not of course. I hand the gun back to the proprietor and he pushes the bolt hard forward and closes it. So I take it back again puzzled. (Now I have a 452 special in .22lr. that I bought back in July, and the bolt is a smooth as glass, the action on it is fabulous as good as my Anschutz 64).
So I take the bolt out of the 452 American Varmint to see what the problem is and there are huge chatter marks on the inside edges of the rails /ways. not only that but now I can see that the machining on the last 1/4" is CROOKED, Yes crooked which is causing the bolt to bind since its not all the way forward. You have to force the bolt forward to close it, and even then it takes about 20 lbs of force.
So thay bring out the second one they ordered, and its even worse.
I suggested that they should send both guns back to the wholesaler, and they tell me that they dont want to "waste money on the shipping". Other CZs that they have received were similar, some much better and some worse. But that no one had brought one back with a problem.
Needless to say I thanked them but passed on buying either one.
They were selling them for $389 out the door.
I have to wonder if the machining was that crooked, if the guns were properly headspaced at the factory, I have never seen a bolt .17 HMR blow up in someones face, but thanks I dont want to be the first.
Well anyway the owner said that when they get the next batch in he will call me, and I can check them out.
So what is going on with CZ's QC????????