took my pair of CZ550s to the range on sunday. My American , is a .243 and my full stock is a 7X57.
I shot the .243 ist and my 1st target was poor, But I figured I needed a smaller bulls eye to shoot better and that cured the problem. I used 4 loads, and best was a 100 grain sierra flat base with IMR 4064 at .65 followed by the 90 grain speer over varget at .72, Next was a 95 grain balistic tip on top of IMR-4350, at 1.15. The rifle does not like the 100 grain hornady over RL-22 at all.
belive it or not my Full stock 7x57 is at least as acurate a I had a group of .55 with a 162 grain Hornady and About .75 with a 140 grain b-tip over H-414.
CZs are prety hard to beat !!! ...tj3006

Gee, I'm sorry your CZ's shot so poorly......

My CZ 527, .222 must be the only lemon in the bunch. roger

Roger,

when I had the opportunity to shoot your CZ at the range when down in LA, I thought it was a good shooter....

But as we talked about over lunch... a plain old Stevens 200 in the same caliber would be just as accurate and a more common every day rifle....

Your CZ was everything I expected it to be, but the logical choice of a Savage or Stevens makes more sense to me...

Guess you and I are users instead of admirers...

seafire:
I am not sure how to take your comment about "admirers" as to those of us who like and shoot CZ'S, but here is what I have to say about that, LOL!

In my groupof friends we have 6, CZ rifels, 2, 223's, 2, 221 Fireballs, 1, 243, and a 375 H&H, they are all tack drivers. My 527'S best group so far is .380,that shot with a 7, power scope, and the 375'S best group is .75. All of the rifles mentioned above shoot about the same as the others. So if Roger has a problem, must be "HIS RIFLE", send it back to CZ.

Jerry

I love my CZ527!! I chose the 221FB and I've never regretted it. With the Hornady V-Max 40gr, I keep groups inside 0.5" without much work. I could probably fiddle with it to get better... but why!?! Also, after seeing the loading data on this site for subsonic and reduced loads for the 221, I started to experiment there also. I'm now shooting the same 40gr V-Max into 3/8" at 50yds when loaded with 3.5gr of Unique. It duplicates a strong 22LR load, and it should be just the ticket for squirrel season... Opens next week!!!!!

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Originally posted by Jerry Eden:
seafire:
I am not sure how to take your comment about "admirers" as to those of us who like and shoot CZ'S, but here is what I have to say about that, LOL!

In my groupof friends we have 6, CZ rifels, 2, 223's, 2, 221 Fireballs, 1, 243, and a 375 H&H, they are all tack drivers. My 527'S best group so far is .380,that shot with a 7, power scope, and the 375'S best group is .75. All of the rifles mentioned above shoot about the same as the others. So if Roger has a problem, must be "HIS RIFLE", send it back to CZ.Jerry

Jerry, It's like I said ."I must have the only lemon in the group." Even though ,John says it fires good I think he is just trying to be a nice guy who feels sorry for a guy who is saddled with a dud. At best, as I have stated before ,it is a nice walk around plinking rifle at best. roger