George Hill
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Gewehr98 - nice grips... Good looking 52.
Quickie range report CZ-52
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Before the wall fell, these guns were very rare in the U.S. and the value in the older "blue book" type references was very high.
A collector friend of mine recalls seeing two collectors come to blows at a gun show over one.
I imagine the collectors were SICK when they started seeing them turn up for only $120.
A collector friend of mine recalls seeing two collectors come to blows at a gun show over one.
I imagine the collectors were SICK when they started seeing them turn up for only $120.
Uncle Jaque
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Another Czech-O-Matic Fan Czechs in!
Well Ahoy there, fellow CZ-52 Fans!
I've been around Gunboards.com and Parallax
http://pub109.ezboard.com/bparallaxscurioandrelicfirearmsforums
for quite some time, but am fairly new to this board.
I gave in a got my CZ-52 on my C&R FFL about last November, and have been having an interesting time with it.
for one thing, a lot of the milsurp 7.62X25 ammo was loaded for submachine guns and has notoriously "hard" primers, so the misfire rates you had are not unusual. It varies by country of origin and lot, but almost all of it is problematic to some extent.
the accuracy you are gitting is pretty good - some people report excellent accuracy, others not so hot. Mine is in the latter category, but I am finding that it takes a different hold and trigger management than my .45, and takes some getting used to.
My bore also slugs a little oversize - .310", so reloading with appropriately sized bullets might help.
the wandering pins are also endemic with this pistol - particularly the trigger pin. You are the second one I have heard of who has had an extractor "walk" out on them.
Installation of a Federal competition firing pin has improved my trigger pull immensely, and a 16.5 # recoil spring from Makarov.com seems to reduce the "battering" of the mechanism somewhat, and small parts, pins etc. seem less inclined to come loose or fall off when all that jarring is softened a bit.
It also keeps my ejected casings within a half-acre plot so I don't have to hike too far to police them up.
I'll try to paste some of my favorite online resources for the CZ-52 here to share with you all:
http://www.gswagner.com/cz52/cz52pin.html
http://members.fortunecity.com/oldvalkyry/cz52page.html
http://www.makarov.com/cz52/
http://buymilitaria.com/cz52_html/czech_cz52_pistol.htm
http://www.geocities.com/Yosemite/Gorge/4653/czech.html
http://www.weareguns.com/cz52pist.html
http://www.bobtuley.com/cz-52/
Also: about that Bulgarian milsurp ammo we need to avoid:
http://www.geocities.com/Yosemite/Gorge/4653/bad.htm
The CZ-52 is certainly an interesting piece of machineary, and a lot of fun to blaze away with too!
Well Ahoy there, fellow CZ-52 Fans!
I've been around Gunboards.com and Parallax
http://pub109.ezboard.com/bparallaxscurioandrelicfirearmsforums
for quite some time, but am fairly new to this board.
I gave in a got my CZ-52 on my C&R FFL about last November, and have been having an interesting time with it.
for one thing, a lot of the milsurp 7.62X25 ammo was loaded for submachine guns and has notoriously "hard" primers, so the misfire rates you had are not unusual. It varies by country of origin and lot, but almost all of it is problematic to some extent.
the accuracy you are gitting is pretty good - some people report excellent accuracy, others not so hot. Mine is in the latter category, but I am finding that it takes a different hold and trigger management than my .45, and takes some getting used to.
My bore also slugs a little oversize - .310", so reloading with appropriately sized bullets might help.
the wandering pins are also endemic with this pistol - particularly the trigger pin. You are the second one I have heard of who has had an extractor "walk" out on them.
Installation of a Federal competition firing pin has improved my trigger pull immensely, and a 16.5 # recoil spring from Makarov.com seems to reduce the "battering" of the mechanism somewhat, and small parts, pins etc. seem less inclined to come loose or fall off when all that jarring is softened a bit.
It also keeps my ejected casings within a half-acre plot so I don't have to hike too far to police them up.
I'll try to paste some of my favorite online resources for the CZ-52 here to share with you all:
http://www.gswagner.com/cz52/cz52pin.html
http://members.fortunecity.com/oldvalkyry/cz52page.html
http://www.makarov.com/cz52/
http://buymilitaria.com/cz52_html/czech_cz52_pistol.htm
http://www.geocities.com/Yosemite/Gorge/4653/czech.html
http://www.weareguns.com/cz52pist.html
http://www.bobtuley.com/cz-52/
Also: about that Bulgarian milsurp ammo we need to avoid:
http://www.geocities.com/Yosemite/Gorge/4653/bad.htm
The CZ-52 is certainly an interesting piece of machineary, and a lot of fun to blaze away with too!
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Apple a Day
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Thanks, Uncle Jaque,
I did a little research on the ammo in Janes Infantry Weapons and the little cardboard boxes packs of 70 aren't Yugoslavian, they're Serbian. The ones I have are stamped with a little pi and then a little row (looks like a lower-case r) and the year of manufacture, in this case 1957. Manufacturer: Igman Zavod, Kragujevac.
I did a little research on the ammo in Janes Infantry Weapons and the little cardboard boxes packs of 70 aren't Yugoslavian, they're Serbian. The ones I have are stamped with a little pi and then a little row (looks like a lower-case r) and the year of manufacture, in this case 1957. Manufacturer: Igman Zavod, Kragujevac.
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