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CZ PISTOL CLUBS => CZ82 & CZ83 CLUB => Topic started by: jdubya87 on April 05, 2015, 04:30:29 PM

Title: CZ 83 from 380 to 32 acp???
Post by: jdubya87 on April 05, 2015, 04:30:29 PM

Stupid question, but can it be done? There are a bunch of the 380 ones for cheap out there. Not sure on barrel availability but i bet people would buy into a run of them...

Title: Re: CZ 83 from 380 to 32 acp???
Post by: Independent George on April 05, 2015, 07:40:25 PM

It's a fixed-barrel, so I don't think you can replace it without mangling the gun. Also, .32 is a rimmed cartridge, so feeding & extraction would probably be different from the .380.

Title: Re: CZ 83 from 380 to 32 acp???
Post by: Lemming on April 06, 2015, 03:18:21 PM

The barrel can certainly be changed,  because I've read posts where this has been done after a kaboom incident. But I don't know if the outside diameter of the 380 and 32 barrels are the same,  so they may not fit in the same frame without modification

Title: Re: CZ 83 from 380 to 32 acp???
Post by: jdubya87 on April 07, 2015, 08:06:23 AM

Quote from: Lemming on April 06, 2015, 03:18:21 PM

The barrel can certainly be changed,  because I've read posts where this has been done after a kaboom incident. But I don't know if the outside diameter of the 380 and 32 barrels are the same,  so they may not fit in the same frame without modification

Somebody here has to have one to compare...