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#1 ·
I've thought about getting one of my 5 CZ52's green parked....now I know I will!





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Originally posted by NRAJOE
I've thought about getting one of my 5 CZ52's green parked....now I know I will!



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Don't tell me there're no [other] Czech speakers on this forum? Tell me no one noticed the blatant mispelling on the gun? Zborjovka? Would be like mispelling "Springfield Amrory".

I sure hope the poor fool didn't spend too much on that "paint" job.
 
#9 · (Edited)
Everyone meet "Clark"..."Clarkmag"...etc. He has been kicked off 2 or 3 forums for not letting his dislike of CZ52's go. He does stupid, dangerous experiments to them and blows them up...quite a disturbing individual. :mad:
 
#13 ·
When I destroyed two CZ52 pistols in 2000 with experimental handloaded overloads, and then could not harm Tokarevs with much higher overloads, I found the weak spot, the bottom of the CZ52 chamber was very thin, [.058" CZ52, .125" Tokarev], because the underside had been milled out to make room for the roller blocks. I began to question the premise that the CZ52 is stronger commonly printed in books, magazines, ammo manufacturers etc., though out the gun culture.
http://www.thehighroad.org/attachment.php?s=&postid=249178


This is what I now believe probably happened to get this error into the gun culture:

1) In 1970 the US army published an account of the CZ52 pistol.
Knowing that:
a) The Russians had a TT-33 pistol designed in 1933 that Russian Tokarev ammo loaded to 31 k c.u.p.
b) The Checks had a CZ52 was designed in 1952 and that Czech 7.62x25mm Tokarev ammo was 42 k c.u.p.
c) The CZ52 has a roller block locking system.

From the U. S. Army Foreign Science and Technology Center's publication titled "Small Arms Identification and Operation Guide - Eurasian Communist Countries", (FSTC-CW-07-03-70), page 211, Table XI, Cartridge Data and Color Codes, in reference to 7.62 x 25 mm pistol ball type P;

"Do not use Czechoslovak-made ammunition in TT-33 pistols."

2) In March 2000, I got a Letter [as did many others, and the letter was handed out at the shot show] from Ted Curtis ballistician at Accurate Arms. Ted Curtis, a very old ballistician already was bald and had jowls in his 1966 photo in "Speer 7". All the typos are Ted's:

"7.62 X 25 Tokarev ..
Due to the large number of handguns imported into the U.S. chambered
for the 7-62 x 25 Tokarev Accurate Arms has developed the following load
data for those shooters who wish to reload the little powerhouse. In
determining the appropriate pressure limit for our load data we tested
various military ammo from China, Russia, Austria Bulgaria and the
Czech Republic. Commercial ammo produced by Sellier & Bellot was also
tested. Based on these tests we arrived at a maximum pressure for our
lad data of 42,000 C.U.P. Only the single lot of Russian ammo was
significantly below this pressure averaging 31,000 C.U.P. The consistent
pressures between all other type sand manufactures was a welcome
surprise . Indeed, the fact that CZech ammo, made for the CZ-52 pistol,
produced the same pressure as that of the other countries was perhaps
the biggest surprise of the whole project. This in spite of the "tribal
lore" regarding this particular handgun and the ammo loaded for it
claiming that shooting Czech ammo in any other firearm so chambered will
causes spontaneous disassembly. The pressure data produced by the ammo
tested certainly doesn't support this theory.

[Ted presented some loads with AA#2, AA#5, and AA#9 that were at 42 k c.u.p. and very high velocity]

..We feel that the maximum loads shown here are suitable for the CZ-52 so
long as the firearm is in good condition. Other models of foreign
handguns of a lessor quality should probably be loaded in a more
cautious manner. "

3) What I believe happened was that:
a) 1970 the army was not aware or did not realize the implication if China, Poland, and Bulgaria were also producing 42 k c.u.p. Tokarev ammo and it was for their domestically produced Tokarevs. The army's technical writer working on the paper either did not have a CZ52 sample in 1970 or was unwilling to do destructive tests, unwilling or unable to do a mechanical strength analysis, or was distracted by the roller locking mechanism.
b) If Czech ammo for CZ52s is 42 k.c.u.p. and is the same as 42 k c.u.p. ammo China, Austria, Bulgaria, and Poland make for their Tokarevs, the ammo being used does not imply the CZ52 is stronger.
c) When Ted measured the communist block Tokarev ammo, he realized there was an error in the 'tribal lore', but he did not realize that his data implied that the rational [ used infer the CZ52 was stronger than the Tokarev] was gone. He then published his loads for "the CZ52 only".
d) When I notified Sierra [a very good company with a very good rifle handload book] that their "CZ52 is stronger" line in their handgun load book was wrong, I got a typical reaction, ~ "We are impressed with your load data, but we were just printing what WE read."
e) When I notified GUNWORLD magazine that their line, "The CZ52 is stronger" was in error, Jan Libourel wrote me that he was just ~" printing what HE read".
f) When I posted on the internet that "The CZ52 is not stronger" I got many negative reactions from CZ52 owners that missed the nuance between [that CZ52 are not as strong as the Tokarev] and [that CZ52s will blow up with factory ammo].
 
#14 ·
What is your point though? You can blow up just about anything if you try hard enough! What is it with you dragging the CZ52 through the mud all the time until people can't stand to read what you say? Are you THAT bored?
 
#15 · (Edited)
Joe, my intension is to correct an error that has been repeated many times in the gun culture.

I can only try to alter the next generation of information about handloads for the Tokarev in load books to get it corrected.

Individuals posting on the intenet book review of Michael Bellesiles’ book "Arming America" on Amazon.com made a change.

Why can't I make a change?
 
#16 ·
If you say so Clark...none of my six (soon seven) CZ52's have blown up from factory ammo, nor has anyone elses I know.

I use only S&B and none of the bizarre mishmash of surplus out there for these guns.
 
#18 ·
Surplus 7.62x25mm Tokarev ammo from China, Russia, Austria, Bulgaria, and the Czech Republic as well as current commercial ammo produced by Sellier & Bellot all measured 42,000 c.u.p. at the lab at Accurate Arms in 2000 by ballistician Ted Curtis. He measured the surplus Soviet ammunition averaging 31,000 c.u.p.. The Czech ammunition was manufactured for use in the CZ52s, while the other countries were manufacturing ammunition used in Tokarevs. Accurate Arms then sold load data in 2000 listing 42,000 c.u.p. loads for CZ52s. By 2004 Johan Loubser Ballistic Lab manager at Accurate Powders reduced the loads to less than 2400bar or 34809psi, and those reduced loads were made complementary from AA on their web site. While the 86 gr AA#9 load is said by AA to be reduced from 41,300 c.u.p. to 33,851 psi, Quickload software calculates that AA's loads went from 57,158 psi down to 28,551 psi. Loads by Sierra at 90 gr AA#7 specifically for the CZ52 remain at 22,385 psi as calculated by Quickload.

What does it all mean?
The Tokarev ammo may be very hot, the American published load data for the CZ52 is now below broom handle levels.
 
#24 ·
Granted I have never tried to overload any type of explosive reaction (an incdient with firecrackers when I was 11 cured me of that particular type of stupidity), but when I bought my 52 it appeared unissued and unfired. I have since shot through an entire spam can of yugo surplus (770 rounds or more), several boxes of Sellier & Bellot commercial, several boxes of some type of surplus cannon (judging by the noise and flash) ammo in plain brown boxes and an assortment of commercial ammo and not once have I had a single problem. I am even still on my original firing pin. I can not imagine the amount of stress it would take to blow up a block of military-grade milled steel, especially a block of steel as thick and heavy as the CZ. whatever you did to it would probably have blown up almost anything.
 
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