CZ-557...Canadian Rangers?

Redlight35 said:
You might want to check where I'm from....

We were told that we were no longer allowed to use our issued rifles to hunt unless we were card carrying natives...

My patrol is made up of mostly trappers and professionals who make sure their equipment is clean and ready to go and really have no need to sell the ammo, its far more fun to shoot free ammo! Why risk a good paying job for a $20 box of .303 British ammo, because the MPs will figure it out, and you will go to a military prison for it out here... we're close enough to a large center that we couldn't get away with it...
Click to expand...

Agreed. I'm not versed on your local, I was much farther north.... So the Ranger group may be different? I'm just going with my experiences. However, you yourself do point out that if you are a card carrying native you could use your rifle to hunt. There's the issue there, use of a government piece of equipment to hunt with government ammo.... I don't know of any other arm of the Canadian military that can take its issue firearm and go hunting. And I've been there to see relatives take a ranger firearm to go hunting. Ive been there to see the scrambling from house to house to locate all of a persons kit because its required for a search and rescue. It actually bothered me that the arm of the military in the community I was in used the ammo for hunting, and as far fetched as some type of invasion occurring, the allotement each Ranger was supposed to have was spent. This is all in the far north, but its from personal experience and it bothered me. I hope my experience was isolated.
 
FFS, Someone posts this over and over again from different people and I constantly have to keep saying this. That gun is not a CZ 557 its a CZ 555. The CZ 557 is a new gun that came out this year not even sold in Canada yet. It doesn't have a set trigger, does not have control feed, doesn't use a 10 round detachable magazine, and it has a skeleton hooded front sight. The wood colour is lighter on the 557 and the checkering is different with the checkering in odd, non-traditional locations on the stock. The CZ 555 can use the 10 round detachable magazine from the CZ 750.

You may of ended up with a CZ test rifle, maybe not, but its not a 557. I've seen this same thread from different people 4 times now with the same pictures from Imgur.
 
Last edited:
Odd. Cause it does say 557 on the side of the rifle.

I ordered the rifle through Bon Voyage sports up in PG. They had an offer come up on special for several rifles and I picked this one. And it was advertised as CZ-557 in 308.
 
RevenVrake said:
Odd. Cause it does say 557 on the side of the rifle.

I ordered the rifle through Bon Voyage sports up in PG. They had an offer come up on special for several rifles and I picked this one. And it was advertised as CZ-557 in 308.
Click to expand...

Well if CZ stamped 557 on it as the model number , then I guess it's a 557 - even if some CGNers don't agree. Sorry, Mumble Marbles Mouth...

BTW, I looked but couldn't find a listing for a model 555 anywhere in the CZ product line on either the website for CZ USA or for the original company in Europe. They only show a CZ 550 and a CZ 557. When was the CZ 555 made?
 
screwtape said:
Well if CZ stamped 557 on it as the model number , then I guess it's a 557 - even if some CGNers don't agree. Sorry, Mumble Marbles Mouth...

BTW, I looked but couldn't find a listing for a model 555 anywhere in the CZ product line on either the website for CZ USA or for the original company in Europe. They only show a CZ 550 and a CZ 557. When was the CZ 555 made?
Click to expand...

The 555 was a detachable magazine version of the 550 available in 30/06 and .308. The 555 was replaced this spring by the 557 when it was available for sale.

If this is a 557, then its a prototype as there is no 557 in this configuration that is available. Don't let CZ make any of these for the Canadian Market OP, as you will have the rarest CZ rifle in the Canadian market. One question. Is this control feed or push feed?
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top Bottom