Posted on 09/19/2009 4:30:14 PM PDT by Lurker
You’ve got a point, it’s not in the same league as Nagants and Toks.
Paid a “premium” for mine. Got it at Cabela’s. I was able to get one with very little holster wear because of a helpful salesman. I’m saving my 1000 rounds of Silver Bear for any future non supervised opportunities. I use Sellier & Bellot at my range because they are not fond of anything other than brass cases. The funny thing is that it came with a holster marked CZ75 so I got one of those on Friday. Any body have a good 9X19 source.
Google for : Cheaper than dirt or Sportsman's guide Two good sources are
I got mine at J&G Sales in Arizona. Link here.
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All in all I think they're nice little pistols for the money.
I have no feed/extraction problems with any ammo. The only pistol I'm more accurate with is my Bersa Thunder .380. It's uncanny. 10 yards and an expanded hole in the 10 ring offhand. The thing that surprised me is that for me, the Thunder was easy to limp wrist offhand.
Back on topic, the only gun more fun to shoot for me than the CZ82 is the CZ 52.
Another poster on this board is in the market for a 52. I checked with the gun store I did this evaluation at to see if they had one in stock.
They said they get them in from time to time, but they didn’t have one for me to check out.
Forgot to ping you to the thread!
What’s the difference between the 82 an the 83 Lurker ? I ordered the 82.
Great review friend.
Thanks for your time an effort !
It's also finished a heck of a lot nicer, and there are some cosmetic differences. IMO it's an 'updated' 82 for the commercial market.
That's about it as far as I can tell.
And you're quite welcome. Grab a couple of these while you can. I think they're worth it.
The CZ-52 is a pretty nice old handgun also that can be found for $200 or so. Shoots 7.62x25 Tokarev, which Sportsman’s Guide sells really cheap - older military ball ammo is under 10 cents a round.
This guy has a multiple part series on gun smithing and Parkerizing his CZ 82.
Thanks very much for that.
Another poster on the board is looking for one of those. I haven’t run across one yet and they seem to be unavailable from C&R sellers these days.
But I’ve heard very good things about them.
They are nice pistols. Very solidly built. If you can remember who that poster is, ping hm to this. I don’t know any web C&R places with them always in stock, but he should be able to find some choices at a gun show. I got mine at a middling monthly show here in Austin. I’d consider it good to very good shape - shoots about like what you showed. Came with 2 mags, cleaning rod and the old leather holster (also in quite good shape) for $220.
Then I picked up a brand new, old stock barrel from Sportsman’s Guide for another $30. Don’t really need it right now, but at 10 cents a round I’ll need it eventually.
Only bad thing is the primers on those cheap rounds are corrosive, but the 52 field strips real easy, and a little Windex then WD-40 shortly after shooting takes care of that.
You can get a box at the gunshow for $7-$9
The owner needs to get a few more magazines as soon as he can. Id never buy any sort of high capacity handgun without at least four mags for it.
Magazines can break, get lost or stolen. Remember the period during the clinton ugly gun ban when 13-14-15 round magazines were hard to come by?
Ping
This is one of my regular carrys.
A Great pistol. The Czechs expounded on 60 years of KGB success
Mak is 9x18 but its actually fatter that 9x19 Nato.
It delivers a wollap
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