Mini Mauser CZ527

[Scott Tschirhart]

I think these little carbines look so good. Like a little Square Bridge Mauser and control round feeding.

Any other fans around here?

[gamekeeper]

I had one in .22 Hornet I loved it but my son loved it more.....

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That photo is over 20 years old seems like only yesterday.

[Paladin]

I don't have a CZ527, but I do have two CZ452s, one in .22 LR and .17 HM2 I bought in 2005. I bought the .22 to use for small game hunting with a suppressor, but it was too good-looking to chop and thread. Then I bought a new 452 in .17HM2 and threaded it. I have two Nephews who think that during squirrel season on my farm in WV, if it goes crack, that is a dead squirrel. The .22 I shot NRL 22 Matches with, and it is so accurate it puts you in the UNLIMITED CLASS just for using it.

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[44shooter]

I always admired the 527 as well. I wish I had picked up one in 7.62x39 and maybe another in 221, 222 or 223

[Scott Tschirhart]

I love the way the action and barrel are machined. And it mounts perfectly for the sight to be dead on for my eyes.

[Rimfire McNutjob]

I'd love one in 22 Hornet, 204 Ruger, or 221 Fireball. I keep watching them up on GB but they all seem to go over $1000.

[Ray]

Many years ago we had the use of a shop loaner whilst a gun was being customized. I'm unsure of the model number but it was in the sks/ak round and had the full length stock and fixed rear sight. I remember the front bead wiggling on the shallow V rear did not inspire confidence but for quick shooting at closer ranges we learned to use it.

Many years later a similar sighting arrangement on a .375 model 70 Winchester took some time to get used to. Those who used such imprecise sights to good advantage.....african p.h.'s and the like, all advised that you just have to trust the sight picture and snap-shoot without dawdling too long over the shot. If we had kept the cz by purchasing I would have had to scope it and I remember it did not have a conventional mounting system that I was used to and the hardware was relatively expensive then and hard to acquire.

Those were the days of well under twenty cent per russian steel case ammo and we put enough through it to make the thing quite hot to the touch.

[Ysabel Kid]

I had one in .22 Hornet I loved it but my son loved it more.....
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That photo is over 20 years old seems like only yesterday.

I've "lost" a lot of my collection to Y2K that way!

[Carlsen Highway]

I have got one, one of the neatest little rifles I own. Little Mauser action, functions like a clockwork Rolls Royce and is very accurate in .223. It shoots deer big and small. With a 20 inch barrel probably is as closes to a handy levergun carbine as you get in a bolt action. I should put a reflex red dot on it one day just to see how I like it...

[MingoKid]

I have one of these little gems in 7.62x39. Surprisingly accurate. Even with cheap ammo! Originally, I had envisioned a small scope for it. I ended up mounting a Skinner rear sight after drilling and tapping 2 small screw holes in the receiver. The aperture rear and hooded front sight are a great combo. Offhand shots to 75 yards are easier for me than I had expected. It finds its way on many outings for this very reason. MK

[Bronco]

I bought one in .221 Fireball and had it barreled to a .20 vartarg. 40 grbt does 3500 fps. Most accurate rifle I have! Tennis balls at 300 yds no problem. Bipod and table of course! I am a 3 gun ground squirrel guy. 22lr 17 hmr and the vartarg.

[Scott Tschirhart]

Mine is in .223 and it seems to shoot most ammo into the same group. I put a 1.5-5 Leupold on it and that seems like the right scope.

[Sarge]

I traded into a 7.62x39 CZ-527M ten years ago, which my wife promptly claimed as her rifle. I mounted a Nikon 2x7 scope and zeroed it at 200 yards with Barnaul Golden Bear 125 grain softpoint, a good supply of which came with the rifle. I was surprised when it put five of them in 2 2/3" at 200 yards.



We were watching a crossing when a doe finally meandered within 220 yards (per Google Earth). Peggi whispered "I can take her now" so I said "Hold a little high on the shoulder and shoot." I heard her set the trigger and watch through the binos as she fired. The doe landed on her chin and kicked herself under a hedgerow, but we found her at the end of a 30 foot, excellent blood trail. You couldn't have asked for better performance from the shooter, rifle or cartridge. Shoulder pic is the exit from the Barnaul softpoint.

[Scott Tschirhart]

Looks like it did the job. I’d rather have that rifle than one of my AKs

[jnyork]

I have one in .22 Hornet, makes red mist on the prairie reliably when fed a diet of Lil Gun and 35 grain bullets, anything under 150 yards or so is meat in the pan.

From my cold dead fingers......