Makarov.com ammo

[dragonhunter80]

Has anyone used the FNM 7.62x25 ammo from Makarov.com for their CZ-52's?  If so, what'd ya think?

I got some of the S&B ammo, and my feed/ejection problems seem to had stopped.  I took it to the range yesterday and put 30 rounds throught it wihout any problems - compared to the first time we fired it and only got 8 rounds through before we had jams and misfires.

I got the S&B a lot cheaper than the FNM on makarov.com, but wondered if there was anything about it that made it worth the extra few dollars.

Looks like that old mil-surp ammo really was the problem!

Dragonhunter80

[Mikey]

dragonhunter80 - the S&B is (in my humble opinion) the best new manufacture ammo you can purchase for either your CZ-52 or your Tokarev.  Further down this forum or in the Mil-Surp forum there were some posts about mil-spec 7.62x25 ammo and what it has done to a couple of CZs, so beware of what you purchase as it may be nothing more than old mil-surp or worse, new mil-surp at sub-machine gun pressures (not good in the pistols).

At the price of the Sellier and Bellot, I would buy a case (been there and one that) and never look back at the other stuff.  Interesting note here is that in using the other, older mil-surp stuff before I got my hands on the S&B, I found significant variations in the diameter of the various bullets I pulled from the mil-surp stuff.  They ranged from .305 (Chinese) to .307 (Chech), with S&B at the required .308.  HTH.  Mikey.

[dragonhunter80]

Thanks for the input.  I just wondered if the FNM had something great over the S&B, as it was almost twice the price.

When I got first picked up my CZ, all the dealer had was the Mil-Surp ammo.  My freinds use it in their old military rifles all the time, so I didn't really think much about it.  Then after all the feed/misfire/ejection problems I had, I started reading about it!  The ammo I had gotten, the headstamp was marked with a 53, instead of the 52 i read about in one warning!

The dealer had two different kinds of surp. ammo, the first was what we had two misfires with, and took it back.  that's when we got the one wiht the 53 on the headstamp.  Just in those two, there was a noticable difference in the little ridge at the back of the bullet case where it is grabbed to be chambered (LOL- i am sorry, i know nothing of the technical terms of bullets here).  Anyway, i know what you mean about mil-surp ammo's being different - Although I didn't measure them, as i said, the difference was noticable - and apparently my CZ noticed too.   :wink:

For the price, as well as the lack of problems i had with it so far, the S&B seems the way to go!  

Dragonhunter80

[NRAJOE]

Yup S&B is all I feed my 5 hungry CZ52's...

Cheap enough that you don't need to get iffy surplus ammo.

I don't use surplus in any thing...burn Wolf ammo though both my AK's and all 4 of my Mosin's... :-)