CZ 82 accuracy??

[fonejac]

I'm sure you realize that the CZ-82 does not have lands and grooves ( no rifling) but is a polygonal barrel... looks like smoothbore, they're not shot out. Simliar to the early Glocks.

[fonejac]

Hey Warrior... Greetings
Got an offer I could refuse...  left Torri Station Okinawa in 1962 for home. The offer was for "Embassy Duty"  in some little place called Viet Nam, I would get extra pay and even a clothing allowance for "civies" , but I resisted the temptation and said "I pass." When I got home I got the offer from no such agency... maybe I should have checked out that opportunity ,

[MrScott]

You know, I watched a video at the MidwayUSA website yesterday and the guy was cleaning up an old rifle and redoing the crown.  All he did was file the muzzle flat, then took a round-head brass screw, chucked it in his hand drill, put some lapping compound on the screw, and went at the muzzle with it.  It just kind of knocked the rough edge off the hole.

My question is: can you do this with a polygonal rifled barrel?  (The one in the video was standard lands and grooves)

Just realized this was my first post here.  New to CZ82, but been a shooter for a while.

[dou44]

mine shot 3-4" low with different types of ammo, so i filed the front sight a little and brought it up to poa.

[Huff]

When I first tried my 82 it shot low and left like yours. After getting more used to it, shooting higher etc it was a lot better. But even now when I am having a bad day it is always low and left. I think it is me.
Recently got one for my brother in law, great shape but he shot low and left!
When we switched guns the accuracy was the same even though mine has obviously had much more wear. The bore should look smooth like a well maintained shotgun.
After firing and before cleaning I can see where the bullet turned and almost looks like rifling but clean it and smooth bore again.
great gun
huff

[Cardboard Cutout]

Like a lot of people, when I got my 82 the paint on the sights was almost completely gone, so before I took it out I put some white enamel in the dots on the rear sight, and filled the notch in the front sight like I'd seen suggested here and on other boards.  Visibility ++.

Then when I shot it I found (sound familiar?) that I was shooting low.  Then I realized what I was doing wrong - I was borking up the sight alignment by unconciously trying to equalize the amount of white I was seeing on the front and rear sights.  What I mean is the rear sight dots are only so big, but on the front sight I had painted a long strip of white and since my natural instinct was to assume that I should be seeing 3 equal sized dots of white side by side, I was holding tilted down to "hide" more of the stripe.

Once I started ignoring the paint and focusing on the iron it brought my POI up nicely.  Since then I've started to scrape away some of the paint on the front sight, but I haven't got it quite right yet.  Still I'm glad I've only got to mess with the paint, instead of file away any metal.

Might not be the issue for most of the people who're hitting low, but maybe it can help some.  Check your sight picture!
C.C.

[Huff]

I did almost exactly the same thing!
Normal learning curve?

[Hayfield123]

I was about to "paint" my sights . . . after reading this, I think I'll hold off until I know what the correct picture should be, determinned by a few trips to the range.  Good post.

[Cosmij82]

Went to the range this afternoon to test fire my Gen4 G17 with a G17L barrel,
a CZ P01 and a CZ 82. I've never fired the three guns before (the G17 is old but
the G17L barrel is new; the P01 and 82 were recently purchased).

I was amazed that I shot the tightest groups with the CZ 82, with Brown Bear ammo!
It even blew out one Shoot-N-C sticker target right out of the bigger target paper!!! 
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[yerba1]

Accuracy for me has been a function of shooting - too simple.  Family members are breaking bottles by the third shot and then finishing the remaining targets in succession.   My biggest problem is breeding.  My 82 bred into two more in the office and then a SP-01 Phantom once it saw my tax refund number at the top of my turbo tax screenshot.   Glow in the dark grips and fingernail polish on the sights helped my nearsightedness.  Accuracy is fine. Thanks to one and all.

[Signalman97]

Another quick question for cz82 owners.   I noticed on mine that at the end of the trigger pull, just before the hammer drops,  the hammer moves back a little more.  Like the hammer is not being held back far enough in the first place??  Is this normal operation??

I have a CZ-75 and a CZ-82 and they both do that. It is a result of the design and not indicative of any sort of problem. I have gotten used to it and I hardly notice the creep unless I shoot me CZ right after one of my S&W wheel guns of my 1911.