Mike P. Wagner
New member
Today, I shot the last of m first 500 rounds through my CZ-52. I understand 500 rounds is a morning's shooting for some of you, but that's four trips to the range on Friday night after work for me.
Reliability: In 500 rounds, I have had one failure to eject, and the slide has locked back twice when the magazine was not empty. Other than that, it's worked flawlessly.
Accuracy: I am a pretty new shooter, I probably shot 600 rounds last year in rental weapons, and that was the first shooting I'd done in 35 years. So it's very hard to know how to evaluate the accuracy. At 10 yards, shooting from a Weaver stance, 48/50 rounds were in the black area of a life size target. I'm thinking that the black area is 5 inches across. Oddly enough, when I shoot at 15 yards I seem to shoot fairly tight grips at about 10:00. That could be some kind of recoil anticipation on my part. I'm not quite sure if it's me, or the gun shooting up and to the right. For right now, I'll assume it's me.
Recoil: I'm guessing that I saw the orange muzzle flash, with sights a dark shadow in front of it 490 of those 500 shots. So the recoild isn't making me flinch. I think that would be the only issue. My rigt shoulder is a little sore after 100-150 rounds. I'm not sure if that's recoil, or using muscles I usually don't use.
Trigger: The trigger has eased up a lot in those 500 rounds. I also realized today that whatever "trigger slap" or something that hurt my finger the first couple times I shot has disappeared.
One oddity is that the way I hold the gun, I seem to knock the safety on by accident a lot. My thumb rests right under it, and after a string of 5 or so shot, the trigger gets hard to pull, and I realize that I've got the safety about halfway on.
Overall: Seems to be exactly what I wanted. Note that I was only interesting in "fun" shooting, not self-defense. Very much fun to shoot. I've shot exclusively S & B, and it has a satisfying flash and roar. For $165, I am a very happy camper.
Next purchases: I have a Harrington pin replacement that does not disable the safety, but is hardened. I need to get that installed. I will probably get some wooden grips from Karl at makarov.com, who is really a cool to deal with.
Mike P. Wagner
Reliability: In 500 rounds, I have had one failure to eject, and the slide has locked back twice when the magazine was not empty. Other than that, it's worked flawlessly.
Accuracy: I am a pretty new shooter, I probably shot 600 rounds last year in rental weapons, and that was the first shooting I'd done in 35 years. So it's very hard to know how to evaluate the accuracy. At 10 yards, shooting from a Weaver stance, 48/50 rounds were in the black area of a life size target. I'm thinking that the black area is 5 inches across. Oddly enough, when I shoot at 15 yards I seem to shoot fairly tight grips at about 10:00. That could be some kind of recoil anticipation on my part. I'm not quite sure if it's me, or the gun shooting up and to the right. For right now, I'll assume it's me.
Recoil: I'm guessing that I saw the orange muzzle flash, with sights a dark shadow in front of it 490 of those 500 shots. So the recoild isn't making me flinch. I think that would be the only issue. My rigt shoulder is a little sore after 100-150 rounds. I'm not sure if that's recoil, or using muscles I usually don't use.
Trigger: The trigger has eased up a lot in those 500 rounds. I also realized today that whatever "trigger slap" or something that hurt my finger the first couple times I shot has disappeared.
One oddity is that the way I hold the gun, I seem to knock the safety on by accident a lot. My thumb rests right under it, and after a string of 5 or so shot, the trigger gets hard to pull, and I realize that I've got the safety about halfway on.
Overall: Seems to be exactly what I wanted. Note that I was only interesting in "fun" shooting, not self-defense. Very much fun to shoot. I've shot exclusively S & B, and it has a satisfying flash and roar. For $165, I am a very happy camper.
Next purchases: I have a Harrington pin replacement that does not disable the safety, but is hardened. I need to get that installed. I will probably get some wooden grips from Karl at makarov.com, who is really a cool to deal with.
Mike P. Wagner