Here is my very recent story with cz products. I hope it never happened on anyone else because it sucks.
I ordered a cz 527 carbine from a local dealer. Waited three months to get it since it was shipped from US.
The second day I received it (last week) I went out sighting in the scope and the first round got stuck in the camber - I couldn’t load the brand new gun! So I thought it was because it was too new - actually I talked to the other firearm dealer in town couple days later about the issue I had and they thought it was because cz’s machining tolerance is too small.
So on that day, I tried everything I know to “fix” the problem and I was indeed able to feed the gun with the magazine. 40 rounds through the barrel that day and the cz 527 seemed to be very inaccurate.
Went out shooting yesterday with another brand new cz 527 which needed breaking in as well.
The problem showed up again and it was way worse. I don’t know maybe because it was a colder day or not the cz 527 with feeding problem couldn’t take any cartridge. So I compared the two bolts very carefully and mamma-Mia!! They were machined in totally different ways on some parts!
First the extractor on the “bad bolt” has a different shape, it is a lot thicker and uses a different profile. I couldn’t figure out why cz used different cuts for the same product, the bad one looks like unfinished.
Second and the most critical finding was that the bolt face on the bad bolt didn’t fit for the 7.62 39 cartridges. It is defactive and I don’t believe there is anyway to fix it because it was machined in a wrong shape!
I am so frustrated and I am a cz fan. Now I totally lost faith in them.
I will talk to the dealer next Tuesday to hear how they can help me out. Worst case scenario is they can’t help but because of the discussion here I won’t send the gun to the current warranty shop simply because I don’t want to wait for a year.
I made a couple videos about the problem and these two videos were surposed to be nice target shooting vids but turned out to be complaints.
I hope cz feel my frustration - letting a defective rifle out of the shop is unacceptable! Period.