I've had a CZ 52 for 20+ years & really enjoy shooting it. Muzzle velocities from mil surp ammo usually run 1,500+ fps. Also have reloading dies, bullets, etc. which is a blessing now that factory ammo is so hard to find. This just might be the best $150 I've ever spent on a gun.
Wanna buy mine? I'm getting ready to post mine on gunbroker, dovetail cut with truglo sights installed as well as any and all upgrades I found other than rubber grip sleeve.
I have one with the original holster, cleaning rod and spare mag. It looks and shoots great. Thanx for the info on when it was made. I learned something today
Bought a CZ 52 in 1995. Bought a second, aftermarket barrel in 9x19 also. Like a complete fool, I sold it to a buddy. One of the few guns I've regretted letting go. I can testify to the fact: don't deck on a live round! Good friend has a divet in his concrete floor as evidence!
Century Arms, "Hey the decocker on these pistols is unsafe." Czech Factory, "What decocker? The pistol doesn't have a decocker!" That's why it's not safe to use! Century did have the safeties replaced on many CZs to make decocking "safe". There will be an X stamped on the trigger guard to indicate if it has the new safety.
The roller system in this gun is actually quite different from the MP-5, etc. Those guns are just roller delayed. The force of the case against the bolt head drives the rollers against an angled surface. The breech is never actually locked. This pistol is actually roller locked like the MG-42. The whole slide assembly has to travel backward far enough for the locking piece to contact a surface on the frame and stop, allowing the rollers to retract and unlock the slide from the barrel assembly. It has a truly locked breech.
What he's saying is that this is a roller locking pistol while the MP5 is a roller delayed blowback, (not locking) and that is the difference between the two, which I found to be new and interesting information. But yeah, thanks for informing us that they both have roller in the name of their operating systems. Real PhD level stuff😂
For such a robust pistol it has a surprisingly fragile firing pin. An MP5 is not roller locked, it is roller delayed. Not the same thing at all. You never mentioned that the reason the gun is so robust is that it was designed to shoot the VERY hot M48 subgun ammo.
@@pyro4squirrel if you say so. But if you actually take time to look and study the way it works, you'll find that when the barrel moves completely into battery it does lock the rollers into position on the slide. They can not move until the barrel moves reward allowing them to move inward. But I'll not go any further with this. You can call as you see it.
@@pyro4squirrel if you say so. But if you actually take time to look and study the way it works, you'll find that when the barrel moves completely into battery it does lock the rollers into position on the slide. They can not move until the barrel moves reward allowing them to move inward. But I'll not go any further with this. You can call as you see it.
Bought one from Century when they first showed up in the market ca. 1992...still have the holster and share magazine, but the tool is long gone..paid ca 95 bux for mine that price has pretty much quadrupled or quintupled...mebbe more...found 300 rounds of 7.62x25 the other day...nice surprise...
I love mine and have been looking into alternative ammo types to use with it. The surplus stuff is actually pretty hot and can put around 600lb of muzzle energy on target going around 1500fps. Winchester also makes a 105 grain JHP for 762x25 that I'd like to get my hands on once I see tested against 45ACP and 9mm JHP.
They are fantastic guns, they are also loud and spit fire. Anytime I’ve taken mine to an indoor range everybody wants to know what I am shooting. My only real issue with them is that they are single action only with a useless safety. It is nothing like the great 1911 system, it’s a real afterthought in the design and unsafe to carry on a loaded chamber. Guess it forced the people who carried them to keep it on an empty chamber to prevent AD’s. Also I find a punch disassembles and reassembles the gun much easier that using the mag lip.
I agree...mine doesn't some so disassemble THAT easily...definitely need a punch if some sort...and upper body strength...thatvspring is a bitch...especially after a stroke...
@Omar Adel Thank you..I was lucky...and blessed...it was relatively mild..if God had to take something from me...He took my ability to run...I never liked to run very much.. . I can walk.. and that's finemy biggest fear was that I'd never be able to shoot ir use my left hand to hold a magazine...but. thank God I got the use of my left hand and arm back...been almost 20 years now...
Was there anything special about those wood grips? Mine has the same ones, but I have no idea if they were common or issued at all. Yours is the only other one I've seen.
What do you mean by there are firing pin "upgrades" on the market? Like there are companies that make replacements that are better? And if so which companies do that?
Dang, it wasn't that long ago that I asked for this. Mine is still 7.62x25 and is a fun gun to shoot. It is a screaming little round. Only issue i have is one of my mags tends to drop the baseplate in the middle of a mag. Made sure the mag spring is acting as retainer but will still do it on occasion. I've thought upgrading the internals and getting rid of the weak pot metal parts but have yet to pull the trigger. Only complaint is finding ammo... but the 7.62x25 is too fun to swap out...
Reload using Hornady, XTP 90grain made just for these jewels. You can get brass from Starline but it's a bit shorter on the neck than ppu brass or factory ammo from Europe. If you use 30 mouser brass from Starline it's neck is a little longer and works very well. Hornady's 90grain is .309" and is so accurate it's phenomenal.
Those grips look great 👍. I put in Harrington performance parts in mine and the trigger is great. I wish I could find a 9mm barrel for a decent price for this thing.
The feds shut down the man making the 9mm barrels back around 2008 or 10 because they wanted his records on sales. He was also making threaded barrels for them also along with a couple of other parts for them.
If you want a 9 , there are countless options out there , This is so much more fun to run in 30 cal . Thought the new Zastava M57 / M70 is the same frame w/ both barrels , so choose one and the barrel for the other , and enjoy your 2 in 1 hot rod .
I was told from 2 very reliable sources that only approximately 220,000 of these were made. Then another person in the firearms industry said that was bull squirt so to speak and said that millions were made. Do you have any idea. I know millions of the TT33s or 30s ? we're made but I'm believe that the the lower 220,000 is closer. But what do I know? Noddy.
I never understood how they could have put so much engineering into the design of the roller locking barrel amd disassembly system, and then put so little effort into the design of the magazine and mag release.
mag release is like that because of change to longer 7.62x25 caliber, original design had standard button, but after soviets forced us to accept their longer cartrige, there was no space for mag release button
@@Pidalin Makes sense, I guess. But even for a heel mag release it's a joke. The mag release rubs the entire length of the magazine while it's being inserted and removed.
I had the opportunity to buy a CZ52 in 9mm but I let it pass because the pipe was quite worn and here in my country everything related to weapons is very expensive and there are no spare parts so it had to be repaired by hand
It's kind of ridiculous that original gun was developed for 9 mm luger, then soviets forced us to accept their ammo and then you want that gun converted from 9 mm to 7.62 Tok convert again back to 9 mm luger. 😀 I would love to see someone making that original gun which was meant for 9 mm luger with double action trigger and standard mag release button, as it was designed before switch to 7.62
Love my CZ-52. Don't dry fire the pistol wioth original firing pins or they will break. Harrington Products makes hardened firing pins, rollers, etc for the CZ-52 that cure the issue.
Typical velocity of surplus ammo can be as high as 1680 fps. And it's ALL CORROSIVE. As well as having hard primers causing misfires The modern commercial ammo available nowadays is around 1500 or so mostly and from my experience is a lot better quality ammunition than the surplus ammo is in every way especially reliability
The 9 mm drop in barrels do not make the pistol very reliable...too many failures to feed...I bout a work buddy a 9mm barrel and he had itching but nalfunctions...problem is the magazine was not designed for the shorter, straight cased round...
CZ had just broke ground for their North American headquarters 30 miles from my house, then Biden won the election and all work was stopped, all contractors paid for work done and it was over just that quick. Almost 600 local jobs went with it. Thanks Joe
My brother got ones of these in a trade, we took it to the range and it was by far one of the worst guns I ever shot. Would Jam in a very dangerous fashion every other shot. Too much of a liability so he traded it away.
I bought the gun press hype on these when they were first imported. Went to a gun show and on seeing one in real life I walked out with a Springfield 1911 instead. Not impressed. Big, heavy and clunky
