Cz52 serial numbers

Today usually would be the day where we cover variations on the design but in all its service history I was unable to find any substantial variations in design besides much later 9mm conversion barrels. All that being said I do have some information on dating, markings, and specifications. Hopefully along the way you can garner a greater appreciation for older firearms like we do, and simultaneously you can teach us things as well through sharing your own expertise and thoughts in the Comments.

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Thankfully the Czechoslovakian government went ahead and made it extremely easy to identify not just the year of manufacture but also if the weapons were military issue. Besides markings such as those, there is commonly an important mark.

This import mark is located on the right-hand side of the slide just forward of the ejection port. The CZ52 is a roller-locked firearm. Roller-locking is a firearms delay in cycling is due to pressure being applied to a set-off literal rollers that will only unlock once pressures are at a safe level. This makes them a very easily replaceable wearing part on a firearm but the firearm manufacture and engineering can be sort of tedious. Berger published the book Know Your Czechoslovakian Pistols in which he claimed:.

In the late s many vz52 pistols were found to be worn. A refurbishing program was initiated, and it included the following:. However, a discussion on Tuco's Forum on June presented the following e-mail from the Deputy Director of the privatized Czech arsenal. The director's name was redacted in the original. The following was in response to a question about these punch marks indicating results of an accuracy test.

Note that it makes no mention of such a test:. These marks are in a circle or in an oval. This is a military take over and the year of the take over is mentioned there. Barrel at the space at slide. If there is a round circle with a number on the pistol's frame or on the slide this is a personal mark of the controller. Defensive Gun Use in the U. Wrap Your Own Portyanki!

Links to interesting sites. The right side of the frame carries arsenal marks. Those three letters happen to be the same in the Cyrillic alphabet used in Russian and the Latin alphabet used in Czech and English. At least in Russian, a Slavic language fairly similar to Czech, "OTK" can refer to the following two acronyms, the second of which seems far more relevant here:.

What is a CZ? Top of slide Serial number Possibly some small punch marks on the top, forward of the ejection port. There are rumors, apparently with no basis, that any punch marks indicate the result of some accuracy test. See below for a letter from the deputy director of the armory — those marks seem to be meaningless, or at least to have nothing to do with any accuracy test!

A refurbishing program was initiated, and it included the following: New barrels installed and numbered to the pistols Pistols refinished by dipping in a hot blue solution Small worn parts replaced Loose pin holes tightened by staking One to four punch marks put on the sight rib to indicate accuracy, one being best The letters VOZ military repair plant plus the last two digits of the year of re-work stamped above the trigger. The number following VOZ, usually number 1, identifies the plant.