CZ527 Carbine first impressions

A friend of mine has one, and I must agree with the statement about the trigger. Nice, crisp, awesome. If I could justify the purchase I most certainly would. Great write up by the way.
 
My wife has one and loves it. Most corrosive surplus will hover around 1.5-2 MOA in a bolt gun. Handloads will shrink sub MOA easily.
Those bolts tend to be tight when new. My wife's loosened up after 100rds or so. Just throwing it back and forth will work it in.
You can always adjust the trigger even lighter than that. Her's is set @ 3lbs and 8oz for light pull. :)
 
I had two problems with the 527 in 7.62 x 39 I purchased last year. The first was that the firing pin would not strike cheap military ammo hard enough to fire it. It would just "ding" the primer (Military primers are harder so slam fires hopefully don't happen). No problem with reloads though. The other was; I could single feed a round in to the chamber just by placing it in the chamber and closing the bolt over it. However when I went to eject the round either fired or unfired the extractor claw would jump over the rim and disengage from the extractor spring. This made it impossible to remove the bolt from receiver without pinching the extractor spring with a pair of thin needle nose pliers and feeding the "claw" back over the spring "lips". Made for a very tedious range session. If the round was fed from the mag there was no problem. I read a couple of other individuals had the same issue in other forums.
It otherwise is a good little rifle. Quite accurate. Mine seems to prefer the Hornady 123gr SST's
 
8x68 said:
I had two problems with the 527 in 7.62 x 39 I purchased last year. The first was that the firing pin would not strike cheap military ammo hard enough to fire it. It would just "ding" the primer (Military primers are harder so slam fires hopefully don't happen). No problem with reloads though. The other was; I could single feed a round in to the chamber just by placing it in the chamber and closing the bolt over it. However when I went to eject the round either fired or unfired the extractor claw would jump over the rim and disengage from the extractor spring. This made it impossible to remove the bolt from receiver without pinching the extractor spring with a pair of thin needle nose pliers and feeding the "claw" back over the spring "lips". Made for a very tedious range session. If the round was fed from the mag there was no problem. I read a couple of other individuals had the same issue in other forums.
It otherwise is a good little rifle. Quite accurate. Mine seems to prefer the Hornady 123gr SST's
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I did find the chamber is tight in mine, but never experienced the problems you had. I did have the primers not fire on a few surplus rounds. I replaced the firing pin spring with a stronger one and problem solved there.
 
You can lighten the non set trigger from the horrid 5.5#'s. I had on in 223 and the non set was pretty light and the set was so light if you blew on it it would fire. Thought that was perfect
 
hometownhero said:
You can lighten the non set trigger from the horrid 5.5#'s. I had on in 223 and the non set was pretty light and the set was so light if you blew on it it would fire. Thought that was perfect
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Yes, the set trigger is terrifying. When I used set trigger and put my finger on it, the shock from neighbouring shot could fire it!
 
I replaced the firing pin in mine as it would not reliably strike some rounds. This has solved that issue. I found that some brands of lacquered cases would stick in the chamber after firing (i.e. Norinco), making extraction difficult.

The micro mauser bolt will bind as you mentioned. With the bolt all the way rearward sometimes it seems to bind when pressure is first applied by the bolt handle. However if I initiate closing the bolt with my thumb on the rear of the bolt then it moves smoothly. The bolt is so small in diameter it is no effort. I'm not sure if this will ever improve. I would prefer a beefier action.

This rifle wants to be fed only from the magazine as it is a crf. No problem loading and extracting from the magazine but you will find it difficult if not impossible to single load it through the action, such as target shooting.

Do yourself a favour and adjust your triggers to a lighter weight. You'll love'm more. I find mine shoots the cheap Barnaul very well and it too loves the Hornady steel SST. Wish they were a little cheaper.

I love shooting mine and it allows me to do pretty well shooting off hand. Friends/new shooters like shooting it as well.
 
Great write up. I just picked one up of the EE in 223, cool little rifle. It came with the CZ factory rings which seem to be very good quality. I mounted a Leupold VX2 2-7x33 on it and I can keep both front and rear open sights as is. Now I'd really like a QD setup as I don't see the point in having open sights and not being able to use them. After some searching, I see there's a company called Kozap that looks like a quality set up, but everything's out of the UK. More searching I guess. I'm not really crazy about the Warne/Talley style split QD rings.

Of course, the first thing I did is disassemble and fiddle with the trigger and I got it to a very nice pull with almost no creep. Lots of info on the the net on how to adjust. And like you, I ditched the front sight hood. I have no bolt binding issues, but then again I'm somewhat used to Mauser type actions and the usual binding if you exert side pressure while closing the bolt, that's pretty much normal. The 527's action reminds me of an unrefined Kimber 84M.
 
In 7.62x39 it makes a fine 200 yard deer gun with SP's........I bought 500 Privi brass and 1000 Privi SP so I'm good for a while.Have shot 2 WT bucks with mine since I had it.Your scope might be a little much for the balance and handling of the gun,but if it works ....use it.I have a straight 4x Leupold on mine and would go no higher than a 6x........Harold
 
My BF used one on our last deer hunt. He used a MFS SP round and it really did a number on a small buck he shot. Neat little rifle and he really likes it a lot.
 
If I'm in an area where there are black bear as well as deer I alternate between 123gr and 150gr in the mag. I bought a box of factory PRVI 150gr PSP's. I was surprised at the velocity. I ran 10 over the chronograph and the average velocity was 2400fps. They is running pretty hot!
I also bought a couple of extra mags. Handy to use at the range. I'd be interested to hear from those who have the Zastava M85 in 7.62 x 39
 
There's an adaptor available so you can use regular sized dovetail on CZ's smaller size, allowing any ring to be utilized.
 
8x68 said:
If I'm in an area where there are black bear as well as deer I alternate between 123gr and 150gr in the mag. I bought a box of factory PRVI 150gr PSP's. I was surprised at the velocity. I ran 10 over the chronograph and the average velocity was 2400fps. They is running pretty hot!
I also bought a couple of extra mags. Handy to use at the range. I'd be interested to hear from those who have the Zastava M85 in 7.62 x 39
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Excellent info. Surprised the 150 is moving that fast. I like Prvi ammo. Have to get some of these 150's now. Lots of black bears around here.
 
I handload Sierra 150gr .311's and they shoot quite well,but have only shot deer with the 123gr SP's.I intended on drilling my cow moose this year with a 123gr Barnes TSX ,but happened to be holding a pre-64 model 70 in .300 H+H at the appointed time so that's what was used.....Harold
 
8x68 said:
If I'm in an area where there are black bear as well as deer I alternate between 123gr and 150gr in the mag. I bought a box of factory PRVI 150gr PSP's. I was surprised at the velocity. I ran 10 over the chronograph and the average velocity was 2400fps. They is running pretty hot!
I also bought a couple of extra mags. Handy to use at the range. I'd be interested to hear from those who have the Zastava M85 in 7.62 x 39
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I recently purchased a Zastava M85 in 7.62 from one of Canada Ammo's deals. Not a terrible rifle, but the action needs a lot of work before it becomes smooth. When I first got the rifle the bolt was quite sticky and felt like it didn't want to go into battery without a bit of extra effort. A good cleaning and some working of the action made it a bit better. A bit of time with the bolt on a buffing wheel and some buffing of the receiver with a dremel tool made things much better. I bought it mainly for plinking and it's great for that. Seems to feed various Eastern Bloc surplus well, and it loves Dominion HP. I put a cheap 3-9 scope I had lying around and it zeroed quite quickly. All in all it's a good little plinker. It doesn't really compare to the CZ 527 though. I was able to handle a CZ at the LGS and it is hands down a better rifle. Better feel, seems to be better balanced, action is far smoother. I plan on picking one up when finances permit.
 
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