Hell all

I looking to buy my wife a rifle and I have been looking at th CZ 527 Prestige (she likes very nice wood) in .223.I have not seen one in person can any of you fine folks tell me about the accuracy and fit and finish of these guns?

Thanks

Most everyone who owns one will tell you how fine and wonderful they are;not me. It really is beautful but it is only so-so in the repeatability and quality depts. roger

all the 527s I have bought seem to work fine and shoot great

I am the opposite from Bartsche. I feel that CZ offers the best rifle for the money these days with product that is exceptionally accurate right out of the box. I am the proud owner of a CZ 550 in 7x57mm that is capable of half inch groups at 100 yards with my handloads, a CZ 527 Lux/American that will slam five 50 grain bullets into a half inch at 100 yards and is very pretty to boot. My brother owns CZs, three of them, and all are scary accurate, his friend owns one and it too is drop-dead accurate. It is rare that you hear someone who will not have kind words for one. I once bought a Ruger Mark II, that never was as accurate as I would have liked, but I will never say all Rugers are junk because my experience was not so good with one of them. Just for grins, so a search for CZ 527s and read what others have to say about them in this forum and others. Like the gentleman before me said, most will say their experience has been good. Well, that's my story and I'm sticking to it. Tom Purdom

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Originally posted by 7x57mm:
I am the opposite from Bartsche. Tom Purdom

That's the problem, Tom, I got the lemon. roger

Bartsche: Hang on to that bad-shooting CZ 527 of yours. With all the good shooting ones, one that shoots bad from the factory has got to have some collector's value.

Has anyone seen a Prestige model in the 527? It is supposed to be a custom shop gun.

I have 527 varment in .222 love it to bits and is more accurate than my mates .223 tikka t3 varment!!

Sorry Wildlife Artist, for a moment there (after reading the title) thought you was wanting to trade your wife for a rifle.

First I'll start off by saying I have 7 CZ's if that is a clue as to how I feel about them. I do a lot of small caliber wildcatting and the 527 especially in the Kevlar Varmint version makes a great yet reasonably priced platform to build on. With that in mind I'll make my statement with a picture. The rifle in question is a CZ American in .22 Hornet I purchased specifically to turn into a .17 Ackley Hornet. I always shoot a rifle before modification to get a baseline before starting the overhaul. With this particular Hornet I grabbed a MTM box of 50 rounds that were a developed load for an Anschutz .22 Hornet. The load is 13.2 grains of Lil'Gun in a WW case with a WSR primer and a 40 grain V-Max, it's a light load, chambered well and I took off to the range. After a bit of barrel break-in and scope adjustment I shot this 5 shot group at 100 yards. Keep in mind this was with an arbitrary load.

I'm not completely blind on CZ's even though I like them a lot, I think the Prestige is a very attractive rifle but in truth there are others such as Cooper etc that are better finished.
As to accuracy and functionality the picture says it all (You oughta see my Hornet shoot as a .17 Ackley Hornet).

montdoug, please tell me more about the.17 ackley hornet. I have never seen or heard of one before. Do you have to rebarrel the hornet?
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Yes you do have to rebarrel. The .17 Ackley Hornet was developed by P.O. Ackley and is basically an improved .22 Hornet case necked down to .17 Caliber. Mine has a Pac-Nor super match 3 groove barrel on the CZ American. It's working load is 12.1 grains of N120 in a WW case pushing a 20 grain V-Max at 3,800ish fps. It's heck on gophers p-dogs and rock chucks.
Speaking of wives and rifles, here is mine with my .17 Ackley Hornet on a CZ American, this is one of it's first trips afield. Notice the chuck she's kneeling over, he's the one with no head, she whacked him at about 185 yards.



Here's a picture showing some wildcat rounds for the most part using CZ's as platforms (the .20 Killer Bee I had built on a Cooper, the .20 Tactical is on a Rem 700 Varmint), the rest are on CZ's. My .204 is a CZ Kevlar Varmint model that had a turn taken off the barrel and it was rechambered using a minimum spec custom .204 chamber with zero freebore. Way accurate and great velocity with less powder but it can never shoot factory ammo again due to it being set up for boo-coo freebore and would now be over pressure in my chamber.
They are left to right :the .17 Ackley Hornet, the .20 Killer Bee (a .218 Bee blown out to 40 degree shoulder necked down to .20), the .20 VarTarg (a .221 Fire Ball case necked to .20 cal), a .20 Tactical (the .223 case slightly improved and necked to .20) the .204 Ruger which is the only standard round shown.



The wife loves shooting all these on varmints due to lack of recoil and being able to see the hits through the scope. Having your wife as a willing participant in your gun obsession makes life a lot easier.
Didn't mean to highjack the thread, sorry.

I have a 223 that had some problems-

1) it's accurate

2)stock was ill-checkered; you can swap them out through CZ-USA for a nice one if you draw an ugly.

3)I have a CZ in 17 HMR, the stock is nice and 100% better than the one that came on the 527.

4) mine's going to get bounced around, so the stock quality isn't a factor with me.

5)I want a .221, too, and now that remington is making 17 Mach IV ammo, I'm sure the 527 will be chambered in that round- and I'll take one of those, also.

6)CZ is good on the phone when you have a problem.

Speaking of wood, this is the butt stock of a standard 527 American in .221 Fire Ball I picked up at the gun show last year.



This isn't even the Prestige, the couple of Prestige models I've seen were way nice and much nicer metal work. Amazing they put these together for the price they do.

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Originally posted by smedley:
Sorry Wildlife Artist, for a moment there (after reading the title) thought you was wanting to trade your wife for a rifle.

And you have a problem with that why??