CZ 50?

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Just picked up a CZ50 real nice condition and NO import marks, were some of these brought in country without import marks. Also have read these should be fed ammo from europe, anybody comment on this? terry
 
I don't know anything about import marks. Might have been an early import, the importer forgot to stamp it, or who even knows.

SAAMI is the American organization that publishes certain firearm industry standards, including chamber pressure specifications. CIP is their European counterpart.

For .32 ACP, CIP specifies a significantly higher chamber pressure than SAAMI. American ammo might not have enough power to work the action, resulting in malfunctions.
 
Mine doesn't have import marks either, but I can't say it's in nice shape. The finish on mine is pretty worn. It's a brick. I use mine as a load tester. FWIW, yes, CIP MAP is 1,600 bar/23,206 psi vs. SAAMI 20,500 psi. Be aware, however, that the testing procedures are a little different. That said, I haven't seen a lot difference in commercial ammo sold here, except for specialty makers. I think it's all loaded well below max. But I have not had any cycling problems with the old CZ.
 
American bullets are not always the right shape to function in European 32acp pistols, either.
 
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I have both CZ 50 & 70 that I feed a regular diet of anything that is cheap, R.E.M., Win, CCI, remanufactured etc. Both pistols do not seem to know the difference, nor care as I cannot remember a malfunction with them. As for accuracy I normally am shooting soda cans, chunks of red brick, occasional targets and accuracy is not a problem. Actually the pistols are super easy to shoot as they are heavier than the average .32 auto and recoil little.
 
Here is my CZ70. I got it NIB a few years ago. I think it cost $225 or something like that. It's functional and reliable. They seem to be solid pistols.

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OK little guns. I had a CZ-50 many years ago, soon after getting my C&R FFL.

The metallurgy with the 50s wasn't great, and were the hammer is pushed back by the slide as the gun cycles will often gaul and create a lump if you shoot much. The similar CZ-70 fixed some of the minor problems in the design and metal.

Never had problems with ANY ammo I could find. It could be a good Tackle Box gun.

For the money, the Kel-Tec P32 is a far better weapon, and actually suitable for concealed carry. The CZ-50 is almost small enough, but HEAVY. (The P-32's have been pretty-much trouble free for years.)
 
Did they make these for the police or .mil?
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"Vz. 50s were sold commercially but most were distributed to police agencies under control of the Ministry of the Interior. They were produced initially at Strakonice and later at Uherský Brod. Manufacture ended in 1970 with the refinement of the pistol in a new model known as the Vz. 70."
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vz._50#

I bought one a few years back. Pretty cheap at the time, thinking around a hundred bucks. Not the prettiest on the outside with some pitting on the slide. But the barrel looked to be brand new. Pretty accurate for a PP/PPK sized 32. Reliable, and fun little range blaster.
 
From what I've been able to find on the 'net, the CZ-50 was developed the during the mid/late 1940's for police use. While a few may have made it into military hands, post-war, the Czech military was by then probably using the Russian-made TT and their own g CZ-52, and later the CZ-82.

My old '50 would outshoot a friend's Walther PPS, which really irritated him -- as he paid a LOT more for his gun than I paid for mine. (I think I paid about $75 from CDNN back then, using my C&R FFL.
 
I too have shot a lot of ammo through my CZ 50 and the pistol, other than being ugly, shows no signs of wear, gauling or other maladies. Without a Rockwell test I find no soft metal in this pistol.....mine is Police marked.
 
Is it still difficult to find inexpensive magazines for this pistol?

Several years ago when these guns were being imported in large numbers, CIA sold many of them with NO magazine, which caused buyers to rapidly vacuum up all of the extant surplus spares. This resulted in exorbitant prices on the few left in circulation, which in turn resulted in angry buyers who snapped up a $149 "bargain" no-mag pistol, only to find that the magazine they needed to fire it would cost them over $60. :eek:

I notice that Triple K lists magazines now; do they actually have them in stock?
 
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I too have shot a lot of ammo through my CZ 50 and the pistol, other than being ugly, shows no signs of wear, gauling or other maladies. Without a Rockwell test I find no soft metal in this pistol.....mine is Police marked.
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Galling (I spelled it wrong the first time I used the term) was a known issue with some CZ-50 in the late 1990s. There were also armorer's kits for the guns which included new slides and all sorts of springs. I think Wolff now has springs for the CZ-50/70 mags.

My old CZ-50 developed a pronounced lump at the rear of the underside of the slide; I just "planed" it down with a flat file. I'm not sure how many folk had that sort of problems -- you saw it mentioned on C&R forums -- but folks unwilling to do something like that found their CZ-50s slowly becoming non-functional.

And yes, the magazines are sill made of unobtainium... but if you stay on the lookout, you see them on some of the C&R sites (and maybe even CDNN) and at places like Century Arms from time to time.
 
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