I just picked up a 602 in 458 win mag, Its got the euro stock,It looks as if it will kick like hell. Should I go brockman or CZ American. The brockman looks as if it is a better stock for iron sights but it also looks as if it will slap a little harder the CZ? The front bead is a little a smallfor my eyes. Who offers replacement front sights. I would like to replace the 3 leaf rear express with a single blade of better quailty. Does any body do ghost ring installs to the rear bridge. I have a 416 rem. do I rechamber to 416 lott, or rebarrel to a 470 ?. How big can I go? Is any body intrested in the factory stock it is brand new ,but plain jane.

JD

Shoot it first! The idea that a hogback kicks more than a straight classic is not necessarily true or most of Europe would have abandonded them long ago.

SHoot it.. right after you bed it!!

the last 458 602 I shot had only had 4 rounds through it.. then sat for a number of years... and the stock literally broke up in my hand!! I had told my buddy to bed it, he wouldn't and I got walnut splinteres in my right thumb/web

jeffe

Hello,
What's the deal w/ CZ?? Keep hearing quality problems from various owners and is a price/quality item with the mfg. or are all of their products like this?? I have shot a couple of their 22's and seemed fine for quality but did not know their centerfires were problem ridden.
I recently purchased a Parker Hale 458 on a Mauser action and it is one heck of a stout rascal from what I can tell. Some three lugs w/ the barrel and two cross bolts plus heavy bedding work all over. Believe this rifle was built in the late 70's, early 80's and it is their basic entry level big bore bolt gun, but shoots fine and actually not unpleasant to shoot. I had considered one of the CZ's but a little skeptical from the reports I keep reading. Are these reports the rule or the one of a kind type??

"CZ" can refer to guns made in several different factories under several different governments and types of governments. My 602 in 375 had several inches of freebore and was roughly finished. Other 602's are much better, some are worse.

The current offerings are very good.


Okie John

Driver,

Same shite as any current factory rifle. Good that yours had some attention paid to it. The rest seem to be 30-06 rifles with bigger bores and more recoil-but no more attention paid to them.

JPK