New addition to the arsenal: CZ527 American

[CV32]

New addition to the arsenal this week, a CZ527 American in left hand and .204 Ruger, topped with a Bushnell Elite 3200 4-12x40 scope. (Not a great pic, but you get the idea). I'm interested in hearing about pet loads for the CZ527, with 35 gr and 40 gr Bergers especially.

[Glen]

Sweet lookin rig you got there!! And you appear to have all the fixins as well!! Best of Luck & I hope you enjoy that fine rig Safely for a very long time CV!!

[spur]

The 527 American in 204 has been my favorite calling rifle for the last 2 seasons. Had to remove just a bit of wood from the right forarm to float the barrel.
It's grouping in the .6's at 100 and 1.2's at 200 with the 35 berger and BLC2 at 3850fps. I havn't tried H 4895 or RX10x but suspect H4895 may be less temp sensitive.

[glenn asher]

Benchmark and the 35s work pretty good in my RH 527, I'd think they'd work well in your southpaw model, too. I won't give you my exact load, because each rifle acts differently.

I didn't even know the LH was available in .204! Sales must have impressed CZ enough to have them done up. Cool! Normally, all you'd see would be a .223 in LH. Good for CZ!

[Singleshot]

I bought a left hand CZ 527 in 17HMR at a gun show over the weekend. The guy also had the same rifle with a very nicely figured walnut stock in 22 rim fire. CZ seems to have a good line of left hand rifles in small calibres.

[stevecrea]

It looks like you got a very nice piece of wood on your 527! I have been interested in the 527 in 204 because I am left handed also. What kind of accuracy are you getting?

[CV32]

steve, I've only put about 30 rounds down the pipe so far, but my CZ seems to have an affinity for the lighter end of the bullet spectrum.

The factory 32 gr Hornady Vmax shot very well (two of three holes touching) and a 35 gr Berger load (which I had worked up previously for my Rem 700 VLS) was also good.

The factory 40 gr Hornady Vmax was not nearly as consistent, and although they did appear to stabilize somewhat (no keyholing), a 45 gr Hornady SP load (also worked up for the VLS) did not group well at all.