CZ 52. Real gun talk

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There is a dearth of gun talk these days. Well, milsurp talk anyway. I have a Czech CZ 52. It's a bada** pistol that fires a bottle neck 7.62 x 25 round. I believe it's up around .357 in energy. It will go through a six inch thick glue lam beam. It will go through most places in a car door. I don't know if a .357 rd will do that. Haven't tried. This pistol had "trigger slap". Look it up, it's a common complaint. So I went to school on the subject. Now right off the problem, besides me not being a gun genius, is that what one source calls a part isn't what Bubba writing the internet thread calls the part so I don't really know what he's suggesting I file. I sure as heck am not going to start filing willy nilly.

There are add on parts that you can purchase(Harrington firing pins, wolf springs)that folks seem to like. I started out breaking the pistol down to all of it's individual parts(the usual Utube vid). Being frustrated with the parts description I decided to just lube everything up since the was zero lube from the initial build of this thing. All greased and lubed and(with some difficulty)all re-assembled. There are a couple of little stumbling blocks in re-assembly but easy to figure out. Still it took me two hours to get this all done. The result? Glad you asked. I took the pistol out and put eight rds. through it, fired into a sand pile. No trigger slap. In fact one second after firing the first rd. I knew something was different. I happily emptied the mag. Grease and oil whodda thought.


I do kind of understand what some of the gun guys were trying to convey and it makes sense. Some actions can transmit through the various parts and end up at the trigger. I was lucky(as long the the grease stays in place)that I didn't have to try any of those fixes.

More: the "tokarev" rouond(and there's two kinds) is the same one that the Russians used in their PPS series. I am lucky to have a case of Chinese Norinco non-corrosive.