CZ 527 Carbine

[Seraph]

I don't know why, but I want this, every time I see it. Does anyone have one of these?

[Jake'sDad]

I have the similar Interarms Mini Mauser, though it's not a DM. Fun little gun.

I've looked at that CZ too, and wondered what it would be like set up as a "Mini tactical".

[orkan]

Oh I hate me some CZ.

Actions suck. Triggers are not much better. Magazine's and bottom metal/plastic is bargain basement.

They shoot though, I'll give them that. Most I've fired were MOA or better.

[mike_f]

I have a left handed version in .223. I really like the rifle. Lots of nicely blued steel and pretty walnut. True micro Mauser action. It's a light, short, handy little rifle.

I can only speak for my rifle, but the steel is nicely blued, no plastic anywhere that I can see. It also has a single, set trigger with a light pull and little creep.

The things I don't like about it are pretty much the magazine set up. Single stack, sticks out below the bottom of the action, and I can't top off the mag while it's in the rifle. But you can carry extra mags and reload quickly with them.

I just wish they had more calibers available in the left hand versions.

[JStor]

I'd buy one if they'd redesign the safety to work the correct way...or if there were an aftermarket part that I could install. They're handy from what I could tell by handling one in a gun shop.

[billyjmc]

I agree with the above assessments. I have the CZ 527 American in .223. It's accurate, lightweight, looks very classy, no plastic. It is controlled feed, for better or worse, and the set trigger is perhaps a nice option for somebody, though I refrain from using it. It is 1:12" twist though, and mine seems to prefer varmint/lightweight ammo. I would not buy it again, but that's mostly because my tastes in firearms has changed quite a bit in the last 10 years.

[wesprt]

I have a 527 American in .22 Hornet with a small fixed 4x Nikon that serves as my walking varminter rifle. Out of the shit-ton of guns I've owned in my life the rifle that gets carried around and shot the most is my 527. Weighs less than 7lbs loaded, can carry it all day and barely know it's there.

It runs me around $7 per box of 50 rounds to reload. Quieter than a .223 but still has enough punch to kill anything up to deer. I use standard small pistol primers and Lil Gun powder. Brass life is excellent, I have some cases that are on their 5th reloading and look like they will go for another 5.

FILTHY accurate considering the short sporter weight barrel. I have cloverleafed 5 shots at 75 yards with long loaded 40 grain Vmaxes. Wonderfully light set trigger.. Non set is pretty good too. If I have one gripe with this rifle it's the detachable box mag. The Hornet really shines with 40 grain Vmaxes and Lil Gun, but if seated correctly they are too long for the mag and have to be single loaded.. I'd prefer an internal mag. Other than that, great rifles. I have personally seen .5 MOA 5 shot groups at 100 yards shot by 527's in both .223 and .221 Fireball.

As for the above comments by Orkan, I haven't experienced anything of the sort. My bolt slicked up quickly with use, my stock trigger was quite adequate and there is no plastic on my gun anywhere (except the recoil pad). The bottom metal is nicely finished blued steel and the bluing elsewhere is excellent.

[bm176]

gotta love them cz's, i have 3 and never regreted owning one

[orkan]

I called it bottom metal/plastic, because it may just as well be plastic. The DBM is a joke.

[okie john]

I don't know why, but I want this, every time I see it.

If that's the case, don't ever handle one, especially in 7.62x39. They're lighter and slicker than a 30/30 but fill the same role.

I had a 550 American in 9.3x62. No plastic anywhere, the best recoil pad I've seen on any factory rifle, and superbly accurate--one group was .187" and everything else was sub-MOA. I shot a bunch of feral cattle and a little wild hog with it, then I gave it to my father to take to Africa. Results were dramatic, but that's the cartridge, not the rifle.


Okie John