CZ52 & Mil Surplus Ammo

[Steve85569]

Does anybody know how to "beef up" the firing pin action on a CZ 52? Mine shoots civilian ammo just fine, but the Yugo surplus sometimes (okay about half the time) takes a couple of hits before it goes BANG.

Help!
Steve

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[wombat12]

Sounds like it could be either a weak hammer spring, dirty firing pin channel, or stiff firing pin return spring. Wolff offers only recoil and mag springs, but a vendor on Gunbroker offers full spring sets.

[Eli]

Be careful with those pistols, the FP safety rarely works properly, a close friend of mine was killed by one that was dropped.

Eli

[gandog56]

Maybe the Harrington Products firing pin would help?

http://harringtonproducts.com/firing-pins/

[duggaboy]

yeah, who 's really paranoid? got to be my neighbors, who just moved in from Kalifornia.

[jmoore]

Might be an ammo problem rather than a pistol problem. Best way to find out is to try that particular ammo in a similar pistol. Most of the surplus is 50 years old or so and may have been improperly stored.

[rwm]

Any one know where I can get a CZ52 in canada?