Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Rimfires CZ 455 American or CZ 452 American - Update

I also won't buy a backward safety gun. Can I adjust and use it? No doubt. However, I want consistency in how my safeties work. I have guns with tang, push button, bolt mounted, and receiver mounted safeties, two and three position. But dammit I want them how I want them. No pistols with slide mounted safeties, no bass awkward safeties, and no more that do not lock the flipp'n bolt closed.

How about 10/22's, Ithaca 37, Remington 870,Marlin model 60, etc, does anyone refuse to use them because their safety is not a backware-forward safety, or is that different because they are not a CZ?

C'mon guys, I am ok with folks not liking a CZ for whatever reason but to blame it on a "backwards" safety just seem childish. We are rifleman here, if some are confused by something as simple as a safety that does not operate as your conceived notion of how one is supposed to operate then I am disappointed.

drover

I seldom use a safety anyway.. But when I do I am able to adapt pretty quickly even for an old guy!

Same here....it doesn't boggle me in the least and at my age I'm easily boggled.

"Cock it to fire"....just like you would a firearm with a hammer.

In the last couple months I bought a 452 [$385 wood] and 455 [$375 synthetic].
I have not done much with them but take the stocks off, look at the parts, and watch youtubes about how to switch barrels.


I have been working on a 10/22 [$210 wood] this week. I put on a 9" twist barrel. It would not cycle SSS ammo. So I took off the heavy 17M2 bolt handle. It still will not cycle. I am about to radius the bolt.

I love my 452.

Back in college, I bought it new, a CZ 452 'Silhouette'on a whim, as it was being clearanced out at the local shop.

I found a nice Burris 6x HBR scope on Ebay, which fit it well, and it seems to prefer Remington Subsonics, which it will stack into one ragged hole at 25 yards. It doesn't do bad with Remington Yellowjackets either.

The ONLY fly on that rifle is the stock. I am not a big synthetic guy, and it feels rather cheap. I have considered giving it a paint job reminiscent of the old B&C Carbelite Camouflage pattern. Or find a nice 452 American Walnut stock for it.

The pad on the original stock got kind of sticky/gummy too.

All the quality the Czechs can muster.

got one of those burris 6x scopes, sitting on a mdl 597 remington.

the cz 452 wears a redfield rimfire and is very accurate.

zastava mdl 5 shoots aquina super colibri.

Back in the 1990s I order two Chinese Tokarevs from Shotgun News for $80 each.

The safeties looked like they were tacked on by monkeys with a grinder. One was safe in the back, the other was safe when pushed forward. I was just junk added to get past customs. I took them off.