I'd be interested to hear more about the casting and your results. I have a 17 hornet american that loves berger 25 grain so I'm always on the hunt for them. Casting sure would make shooting it a lot more fun.
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I have one of these bolt handles from glades armory, it works quite well.
https://gladesarmory.com/product/cz5...-knurled-knob/
Just a suggestion for other 527 enthusiasts.
Numrich use to sell (may still) the newer CZ 527 bolt handles with the thinner bolt handle base that allows lower scope mounting for around $25. The Glades Armory have the advantage of being a bit longer with more leverage as well as allowing lower scope mounting.
Old thread, but forum tells me I haven’t logged in since January 2021. I know I’ve visited, did not realize it had been so long since posting. I have the CZ 527 in 7.62x39. The set rigger is incredible, but the magazine is horrible. Getting more than 3 rounds in the magazine is very difficult and I don’t like the way the magazine sticks below the stock like it does. Very accurate rifle and a blast to shoot. Never put a scope on it. Didn’t need one with that light set trigger.
https://pbase.com/wingspar/image/159551755/original.jpg
wingspan,
I am a big fan of appeture sights and this would be a look see if I was fortunate enough to have a 7.62 x 39 in a CZ:
https://www.newenglandcustomgun.com/....php?prod=5934
Just friendly food for thought
Three44s
Looks interesting, but I prefer buckhorn sights, but I can use either. I put a peep sight on my 10/22 and took it off cause I hated it. I have aperture sights on a lot of rifles and leave them alone, as I said a sentence ago, I can use either. I just have a preference for buckhorn sights.
That's great that you are already set because $100 not chump change.
Three44s
yes they are fine rifles
I have had 2 and still have one in 22 Hornet
like the set trigger
I have a carbine in 7.62x39. When they 1st came out I 1st saw one at Gander Mountain and stopped by each day after work to hold it for a couple weeks. I waited about another year before ordering one for myself. I love everything about it except the stupid magazine hanging out right where your hand needs to be to carry it. You can swap out the bottom metal and magazine parts for every other chambering except the 7.62x39 to end up with a flush magazine unless things have changed since I last looked. In spite of that negative, I love the little rifle. It's so light and handy that it feels like carrying a BB gun yet it will shoot a 150 grain NOE bullet at 2,070 ft/sec which makes it an acceptable 200 yards or less deer rifle. I've yet to kill a deer using cast with it but hope to next year. I wouldn't even consider selling it for 5X what I paid for it. I don't understand why CZ discontinued such a popular rifle. Don't understand a lot of things about current gun companies. They seem to want to sell weird looking junk only. I go to gun shops and look around and often find myself thinking the unlikely thought that there's not much of anything they have that I would take home even if it were free. I never imagined that would be possible say 30 years ago.
Really sad, they were the only new rifles I have been interested in in decades. We have four in 17 HH, 22 Hornet, 204. They are all at or under half minute rifles.
Love my 527 in .22 Hornet. Wish I had picked up one in 762x39 before they were discontinued. The mag sticking out irritates me just a little but I’m getting used to it.
I hope that CZ saved the tooling to be able to resume building the 527 series and that they come to their senses and actually build them once again.
Three44s
I have a Cz 527 heavy 26” barrel with gray laminated stock in 223. Also has set trigger, ( don’t know if they all had that )Have never seen another one. Was the first rifle I purchased, 14 years ago.
I wonder what that could be worth
All I am aware of came with a set trigger. I do not know of your rifles other attributes however.
Three44s
I have a couple of the CZ 527 Kevlar Varmint rifles in 223 and a walnut stocked Varmint also in 223. For the 223 and smaller cartridge cased ammo it's hard to beat the CZ 527 micro action. I believe that all of the 527 rifles came with a set trigger, you can adjust it into a single stage trigger with about a 2 pound pull just by adjusting 3 screws. Swap out the trigger pull weight spring with a .4 tenth inch long spring cut from a Bic Lighter flint spring and less than 2 pounds is doable. Or if you like set triggers it can be adjusted down to less than a pound. CZ use to offer the model 750 single stage trigger off of its sniper rifle as a replacement option on the 500 and 527 rifles but I'm not sure if its currently available.
David s,
I went snoopin' and I see one trigger assembly for a 750 at Numrich Arms for sale.
Personally, I like single set triggers. But even better than the CZ trigger, my Canjar on a Remington 788 is the absolute best of my stash.
Three44s
https://i.postimg.cc/mkYj8kpJ/IMG-2238.jpg
https://i.postimg.cc/x85HXz4f/IMG-2234.jpg
https://i.postimg.cc/zf1Y3xc5/IMG-2229.jpg
https://i.postimg.cc/MTFsfTpR/IMG-2231.jpg It's been a while since I've seen a Canjar offered, I'm not sure there even currently being offered new, had one on a Ruger No.1 in the early 1980's. Definitely a nice trigger. For the most part I tend to lean on the single stage trigger side, for myself it becomes a nuisance always having to push the trigger forward to set it. Then you have to re-cock the bolt to unset the trigger when the gopher darts off to a new location. With the CZ 527 it's up to the individual as to whether or not it's a set trigger or a single stage trigger. A nice option to have. Skinner sights make a peep sight for the CZ527 rifles that requires drilling and tapping. It looks to be a nice, streamlined peep but I haven't ever used one. I do use one of the NECG peeps on a couple of the 527 Carbines along with the NECG's tall brass front blade. It doesn't look to clunky to my eyes and makes a nice compact set up.
I apologize for not getting back to you faster. I just plain forgot to keep track of my post. Mine likes any of the 20gr or 24 gr dog town (Midway) plastic tipped bullets.
For cast I have 2 NOE molds the .172-26 FN with 2 plain base and 2 gc cavities and the .172-32RF plain base. I PC rather the lube, due to their size. They are a real challenge to cast, you have to keep the alloy HOT and cast as fast as you can or those little buggers cool fast and you wrinkles. I have to set the mold on the hotplate every 10 pours even when running at 750°.
As for loading I just haven't had time to spend much time trying. I started with 2.5 gr of Blue Dot the 26gr gc and got 1253 fps. The 32 gr load was 7.0 gr CFEBLK got 1922 fps accuracy was decent at 50 yds being under an inch for 5 shots.
At that point they closed the range I belonged to and I have not picked up again where I left off. I am a member at a new range now but messed up my trigger finger in April and still can't shoot because of swelling. I may have to switch to shooting left handed if it doesn't get better soon.
Here are a couple of old threads that may interest you where we were experimenting I'm not sure if rhause or Dpmsman have done any more or not.
https://castboolits.gunloads.com/sho...V-in-17-Hornet
https://castboolits.gunloads.com/sho...ornet-and-cast
Casting is an adventure for these tiny boolits. I'd like to see if I could get the 26gc to 2500 fps but that may be dreaming.
Another 527 lover here. Mine is a Varmint MTR in 6.5 Grendel. Shoots half inch groups with 120gr ballistic tips. You couldn’t pry it out of my hands.
Bob