Questions about 7.62x25

Just bought a CZ-52 yesterday, so I'm interested in knowing what ammo to get and what ammo to stay away from. I bought some Polish ammo with it, which I later read about and found out that it allegedly isn't very good ammo. but it has been working fine. Even the cracked cases work fine, which freaked me out at first when I realised how many cartridges had tiny hair line cracks.

Anyway, I was thinking about buying some Romanian surplus from sportsmen's guide. Any reason not too?

no, SG is a great deal and has been all throughout the ammo craze!

with the 10dollar coupon...it's 10 cents a round to your door!

I was told by Family and Firearms owner, where I bought my Yugo M57, that 1985 was a year of romy ammo that wasn't so good, and then I just read that 88 ammo was similar....but i have all these years in unopened tins... I think I'm shooting '84 or '85 ammo right now and I'm getting 50% cracked casings after shooting!

Century arms has '80s Yugo right now for $140 ? and that's supposed to be good ammo...got some in the mail inbound...

I have a bunch of the bulgy '50s ammo too, shoot's just fine.....Centruy even shipped us a tin of the dreaded star 10 '52 ammo...it shoot's fine.

no, but it can kill you.... (voice of Magic Johnson, Family Guy episode)

Sportsman's Guide is my Main source for 7.62x25 Romy tins...I live in Arizona, so alot of the east coast dealers like Dan's would be to much shipping.

Polish and Romanian are both good to go.

What about cases that are cracked? I was worried about those at first, but they feed and fire fine so far. But I'm a little worried they may cause problems at some point just because, well, they're cracked...

Any problems with 1950's Bulgarian?

I have shot '51 , '53, and 54 ammo a bunch...got it from century.

I think I'm just gonna go with the Romanian from Sportsmen's guide. They had Bulgarian also, but it's out of stock right now.

I haev had no problems with the Bulgy, but it is extremely dirty.

Well I ordered 1,224 rds of Romanian last night, along with an extra clip. I'm curious to see how it will fit.

Well I ordered 1,224 rds of Romanian last night, along with an extra clip. I'm curious to see how it will fit.

From whence did you order the extra magazine?

where for art thou reading for content and comprehension skills? Even mine eyes hath seen his purchase location in previous posting....

http://www.sportsmansguide.com/net/cb/standard-capacity-magazines.aspx?a=119843

Well I ordered 1,224 rds of Romanian last night, along with an extra clip. I'm curious to see how it will fit.


it will fit fine.

if it's a metalform,be prepared for some doctoring and cross your fingers that it will drop out.

I got 6 extra mags with my CZ..all metalforms..from them i was able to construct 4 functioning mags which all work and drop out of the gun

work was needed on the followers,baseplates and some maglip tweaking..fortunately I'm an old 1911 hand, and over a decade of doctoring on those mags..particularily 10 rd 38super models, has trained me well

I hope that your mags work,cuz gettin the basepads off requires vicegrips and 2 people :laugh_sma

Matter of fact I'm still missing a spring which launched itself on dissasembly..I think it's on top of the kitchen cabinet

Internet research revealed that ppl didn't think too awful much of those mags..I think I know why now :cool_smal

If you ever run across any Chinese...buy it! It is the best as far as I am concerned. Some of the Czech subgun rounds have primers that are so hard it sometimes take 2 firing pin strikes to touch them off.

Dick S

where for art thou reading for content and comprehension skills? Even mine eyes hath seen his purchase location in previous posting....

http://www.sportsmansguide.com/net/cb/standard-capacity-magazines.aspx?a=119843

I was thinking actual CZ-52 milsurp magazines and forgot that SG sells those clones. I'm always looking for a good deal on original milsurp CZ-52 (or Makarov) mags.

I have two of the clone mags. So far they have worked fine with Polish and Romanian surplus, but will not take S&B non-corrosive, they hang up every time. Must be a slight length difference.

If anyone knows of a good source of Milsurp Cz-52 mags let me know...

This is where I got mine.

http://www.sportsmansguide.com/net/cb/browning-buckmark-22lr-10-rd-blue-mag.aspx?a=282546

$17.97 with the buyer's club membership. Is that a good price?

This is where I got mine.

http://www.sportsmansguide.com/net/cb/browning-buckmark-22lr-10-rd-blue-mag.aspx?a=282546

$17.97 with the buyer's club membership. Is that a good price?

Those would be the aforementioned clones. Original CZ-52 mags aren't blued...they're a phosphated finish (grey, non-polished appearance), possibly.

oh, I just saw my order from Century... the 80's yugo , 1986 actually, x25 ammo...

very pleased with condition and non-pin crimped casings.... so I ordered another free shipping order

Good thing I only orderd 1 of those clips. It is a very tight fit, and hard to hand-cycle a full clip, that is if you can manage to load a full clip without the spring getting stuck inside of it.

My tin of ammo says "L32-85-22" is there anyway to tell if it's going to be a good or bad batch before opening?

'85 production... good stuff imho

https://surplusammo.com/images/7.62x25%20romanian.JPG

Like I said...you are going to need to do some doctoring on the follower, and find a buddy to help get the base pad off

Fire up your Dremel. and get some case lube or spray graphite and PM me..I'll give ya the low down

Yeah, the ammo shoots great. No cracked cases either. BEFORE shooting anyways.

I was shooting down into a ravine at some random targets, and I shot a few rounds at a rock, then noticed about 50 yards past the rock, up on one of the ravine walls, a tiny tree fell over! Hahaha, how crazy is that? The tree was about the same diameter as the bullet! It had to ricochet and change direction by about 40 degrees to hit this tree. Great ammo though :)

I picked up some of the polish from Century, cases crack sometimes but shoots fine. The cased are crimped so i think the crimp cause it to crack. If you look at the crimp mark you can see a slight scratch in the casing running towards the bottom, I think this tooling mark causes the case to crack when fired. Just my two cents