mattw
Active Member
I have a wonderful CZ70, no import marks... looks good and feels good. Shoots great with a very limited selection of bullets.
This gun has a CIP chamber with zero lead into the rifling. So, shooting FMJ or a modified Lee 100-R2 are about my only options. The Lyman 32acp bullet has a bore diameter front band and will feed but cannot be hand ejected once chambered, common problem with most cast bullet choices since there is normally a segment of bore diameter bullet in front of the case mouth. BTW, it will feed the NOE full wadcutter hollow point at 84 grains, but the nose diameter is reduced. Seating most short enough to hand eject will and does cause it to rimlock with some frequency. The FMJ's and the modified Lee cast work fine, but the last bullet in each pic will not work. The milling on the Lee mould finally caused it to strip the sprue plate screw as there was not enough metal left to install a lock set screw. So, now I am down to the Lee's I had cast and FMJ. The last pic is the NOE in the Kel-tec P32 works great in that gun, minor nose damage but fully functional in the CZ.
I am cheap... I just can't stomach buying a 100-175 dollar reamer for 10 twists in the barrel, I can't find a gunsmith with the reamer and the one person I know from another forum does not have the right reamer.
So... I am looking for a place to rent a reamer or somewhere to send the barrel to that has a reamer. I would really like to make this gun more cast friendly.
This gun has a CIP chamber with zero lead into the rifling. So, shooting FMJ or a modified Lee 100-R2 are about my only options. The Lyman 32acp bullet has a bore diameter front band and will feed but cannot be hand ejected once chambered, common problem with most cast bullet choices since there is normally a segment of bore diameter bullet in front of the case mouth. BTW, it will feed the NOE full wadcutter hollow point at 84 grains, but the nose diameter is reduced. Seating most short enough to hand eject will and does cause it to rimlock with some frequency. The FMJ's and the modified Lee cast work fine, but the last bullet in each pic will not work. The milling on the Lee mould finally caused it to strip the sprue plate screw as there was not enough metal left to install a lock set screw. So, now I am down to the Lee's I had cast and FMJ. The last pic is the NOE in the Kel-tec P32 works great in that gun, minor nose damage but fully functional in the CZ.
I am cheap... I just can't stomach buying a 100-175 dollar reamer for 10 twists in the barrel, I can't find a gunsmith with the reamer and the one person I know from another forum does not have the right reamer.
So... I am looking for a place to rent a reamer or somewhere to send the barrel to that has a reamer. I would really like to make this gun more cast friendly.
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