Cz-52

Voodoo

Voodoo

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Anyone have any experience/stories with this particular handgun? I'm thinking about picking one up someone is selling for about $200, but I've never actually fired this particular model. Or any handgun chambered for 7.62 for that matter.

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I like them a lot. Think they are a great buy to get an all steel quality pistol for that prices. Also, ammo is out there for less than 9mm in lots of places.

Very powerful round and fun to shoot.
 
fun fun fun round. cantelope sized fireball, a .30 caliber bullet traveling around 1600 fps. they're fairly accurate too. i really like mine. you can get surplus ammo for pretty cheap, but it's corrosive and i'm lazy. i'd say pick it up.
 
Buy it if the slide doesn't show too much play. I had one I literaly wore out. It was damned accurate and would penetrate one of the old 4 layer thick ford pickup tailgates at 70 yards.
 
Very interesting design, of course the Czechs are great gun designers ! IIRC the firing pin sometimes breaks .There might be replacements or something easy to make.
 
It's a tremendously fun pistol.

However, it has very strange ergonomics. Make sure you handle one before you buy one.
 
Its a oddball alright.

Personally I'd say go and get a CZ-75 instead but to each their own..If its cheap and the slide doesn't have to much play and its in solid internal condition then for $200 I'd hop on it.
 
The 52 is a fun pistol. Some things to keep in mind: the firing pin won't take any dry firing. The thumb safety is also a hammer-drop lever, but don't trust it, they have been known to break. The sights are tiny. The ergos are awful. The trigger is heavy and gritty. There is no slide release. It has a butt mounted mag release.

Many of the things I listed above can be fixed with replacement parts made of better steel. Generally speaking, though, the pistol is strong and reliable, if quite odd. There is factory manufactured ammo for it in a few places, and reloading components are also available.

Andy
 
based on what I have read, and my experiences with the TT33, I'd say get a Tokarev.

Smaller, and supposedly more durable. Some writers suggest the Tok is a more refined Browning design. Wish i hadn't sold mine, with all the ammo available now.

Tom
 
I've got one and like it a lot, makes a big flame and is cheap to shoot. The grip angle is pretty terrible but the pistol is a solid chunk of metal. Get a replacement firing pin as the stock ones have a rep for being brittle and not tolerating dry firing.
 
Funky old gun:thumbup: Some of the super hot loads for that round with the 85 gr bullets approach 1700 fps and 550 ft lbs of muzzle energy out of long barrel guns. That is getting up into moderate .357 magnum territory on the energy side, isn't it? That must have made for a nasty little weapon when you had a huge 71 round drum of those hanging off the bottom of an old PPSh sub-gun.
 
I love mine, shoots very well, low recoil, very flat trajectory, robust as hell, very cheap ammo, and the perfect companion to a PPS-43!
 
Choices in x25 ammo:

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Tricked one out with new rollers, slide latch, frame grind:

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I like the CZ-52 a lot. Like all milsurps you have to get while the getting's good.


Mike
 
Great pics Mike. The guy selling it offloaded it before I could manage the trek to Jersey, can't blame him there. I ended up going with a Ruger KP90 in .45 caliber.
 
Voodoo said:
Great pics Mike. The guy selling it offloaded it before I could manage the trek to Jersey, can't blame him there. I ended up going with a Ruger KP90 in .45 caliber.
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Shame, but if you are happy with the Ruger, good going, and there will hopefully be other chances to get a CZ. :thumbup:

The only .30caliber semi-auto I had the chance to fire was a commercial version of the Mauser C96 Broomhandle in 7.63x25mm Mauser. A friend owned the gun and was able to get it shooting reliably and accurately with handloads using lead projectiles to meet range requirements.
 
i've seen the wolf ones, backordered every time i've looked. a while back, winchester was making them, but they've been discontinued. i'd love to carry my cz, but fmj's just have too much penetration, and i'm not a fan of magsafe.
 
I read an article about this pistol, and the author (David Fortier?) said that the grip was designed more for a two-hand hold, in his opinion. I don't have one, but I want one. A friend in Montana has one, and he bought a couple more for his survival kits and truck kits. The pistol & a couple magazines don't take up too much space, and the flat trajectory makes up for the other quirks.

His advice to me when I get one: install better sights, buy spare parts (rollers, etc.) from Numrich Arms, get smooth grips. Also, Numirch had 9mm Para. barrels at one time.

thx - cpr
 
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