Mike P. Wagner
New member
Me- relatively new to shooting. I rented and shot about every two weeks for the first 6-8 months of last year, then high school band season hit, and I didn't have time to breathe. When I shot, I liked a SIG P239 in .357 SIG the most of what I rented.
Ammo - New S & B 7.62x25 Tokarev (non-corrosive), not miliary surplus "hot".
Pistol - CZ-52, buit in 1953, and I don't think it's been re-arsnaled, from the markings. I was also built in 1953, and I haven't been rearsenaled.
I took it out today for the first time and shot 150 rnds. It was exactly the pistol I was looking for. It 's a "hoot to shoot"m, with a statifying boom, and a decent muzzle blast. it does throw ammo as hard and far as I had heard.
One time, the slide did not lock back after the last round in the magazine had been fired. No other failures. Every time I pulled the trigger, it went "bang", or "boom."
It appear to be more accurate than I am (which is all I can know, right now). I shoot from a more or less Weave stance, and when I did everything right, it sent the bullet through the center of the target. When I didn't, it didn't. It seemed to me to be more accurate than any of the weapons I've rented, but I'm such a neophyte that that doesn't really mean very much.
SA is definitely cool, but it 's still a heavy trigger pull. I will give it 1000 rounds or so, and hope that things smooth out a little. I may also go ahead and install one of the http://www.makarov.com firing pins, as I understand that helps with trigger pull.
All in all, I had a blast. And I feel like I pretty much found exactly the weapon I was looking for. I understand it's limitatations for a lot of things I don't do, but for what I do, it's very cool.
Count me a very happy customer tonight. I am also very glad that I spent the time reading TFL that I have in the last year, and renting what I rented. I think that I would have bought a very different weapon a year ago, and not been nearly as happy.
Mike P. Wagner
Ammo - New S & B 7.62x25 Tokarev (non-corrosive), not miliary surplus "hot".
Pistol - CZ-52, buit in 1953, and I don't think it's been re-arsnaled, from the markings. I was also built in 1953, and I haven't been rearsenaled.
I took it out today for the first time and shot 150 rnds. It was exactly the pistol I was looking for. It 's a "hoot to shoot"m, with a statifying boom, and a decent muzzle blast. it does throw ammo as hard and far as I had heard.
One time, the slide did not lock back after the last round in the magazine had been fired. No other failures. Every time I pulled the trigger, it went "bang", or "boom."
It appear to be more accurate than I am (which is all I can know, right now). I shoot from a more or less Weave stance, and when I did everything right, it sent the bullet through the center of the target. When I didn't, it didn't. It seemed to me to be more accurate than any of the weapons I've rented, but I'm such a neophyte that that doesn't really mean very much.
SA is definitely cool, but it 's still a heavy trigger pull. I will give it 1000 rounds or so, and hope that things smooth out a little. I may also go ahead and install one of the http://www.makarov.com firing pins, as I understand that helps with trigger pull.
All in all, I had a blast. And I feel like I pretty much found exactly the weapon I was looking for. I understand it's limitatations for a lot of things I don't do, but for what I do, it's very cool.
Count me a very happy customer tonight. I am also very glad that I spent the time reading TFL that I have in the last year, and renting what I rented. I think that I would have bought a very different weapon a year ago, and not been nearly as happy.
Mike P. Wagner