CZ 527 in 221 Fireball

[JohnHenry]

Take care of those CZ 527 fireballs. One sold yesterday on GunBroker for $926.

https://www.gunbroker.com/item/771734488

[Gerald D.]

Cha Ching, bought one several months ago for $600 out the door with only 14 rounds through it.







Later found a deal on a batch of ammo and set of dies on Gunbroker, ashamed to say I've not gotten around to sighting it in yet.

[Rick in Oregon]

Cha-Ching again.....mine came home from the pawn shop with a M8 6X Leupold aboard for fifty bucks more. As it shoots the 40gr NVG or NBT very well with either A2200 or RL-7 (.3's & .4's) it won't be going anywhere any time soon.



But I had no idea they were going for those kind of prices! Yikes!

[Daryl]

Bunch of guys here have them with amazing stock wood.

[Screaminweasil]

I sold mine on gunbroker last year for around $650, it was used with a few hundred rounds through it, decent wood, nothing special. It was in 95% condition or better though.


Never was impressed by the fireball..........i'll take a 22K hornet and a 222 anyday. But, that's just my opinion.

[Gerald D.]

I've heard stories about the .221 much like the .222 (which I have in a 527 Lux), my first 527 is in .22 Hornet and I'm now up to eight 527's, I know some don't care for them but I'm pleased with all but one of mine and I know pretty much what it needs.

[montdoug]

Years back when the XP100 came out in .221 and I got one new in the box for around $100.00 all I could think of was that the .221 belonged in a rifle. Years later CZ brought out the .221 in a 527 American and I got mine in 2006 with a fairly decent stick for a bit under $500.00.







-.3 grain off of a max load with 1680 from an Accurate Arms manual using the 40 grain V-Max or 40 grain BlitzKing it chronos 3550ish FPS, and shoots solidly in the sub half inch range.
Here's it's load data.

Load Data
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Name: .221 Fireball with 40 grain BlitzKing @ 3550FPS
Ballistic Coeff: 0.200
Bullet Weight: 40
Velocity: 3550
Target Distance: 220
Scope Height: 1.500
Temperature: 70
Altitude: 4500

Ballistic Data
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Range Elevation Velocity Energy ETA Drop Max Y 10mph Wind Deflect
0 yds -1.50 in 3550 fps 1119 fpe 0.000 sec 0.00 in -1.50 in 0.00 in
25 yds -0.49 in 3436 fps 1049 fpe 0.021 sec 0.09 in -0.58 in 0.05 in
50 yds 0.34 in 3326 fps 982 fpe 0.044 sec 0.36 in -0.51 in 0.24 in
75 yds 0.97 in 3218 fps 920 fpe 0.067 sec 0.83 in -0.38 in 0.56 in
100 yds 1.39 in 3113 fps 861 fpe 0.090 sec 1.51 in -0.20 in 1.02 in
125 yds 1.59 in 3011 fps 805 fpe 0.115 sec 2.41 in 0.04 in 1.60 in
150 yds 1.55 in 2911 fps 752 fpe 0.140 sec 3.55 in 0.35 in 2.33 in
175 yds 1.25 in 2813 fps 703 fpe 0.166 sec 4.94 in 0.74 in 3.23 in
200 yds 0.67 in 2717 fps 656 fpe 0.193 sec 6.62 in 1.22 in 4.30 in
225 yds -0.20 in 2624 fps 611 fpe 0.222 sec 8.59 in 1.79 in 5.54 in
250 yds -1.37 in 2532 fps 569 fpe 0.251 sec 10.87 in 2.45 in 6.93 in
275 yds -2.88 in 2442 fps 530 fpe 0.281 sec 13.48 in 3.23 in 8.50 in
300 yds -4.76 in 2354 fps 492 fpe 0.312 sec 16.45 in 4.13 in 10.28 in
325 yds -7.05 in 2268 fps 457 fpe 0.344 sec 19.84 in 5.17 in 12.29 in
350 yds -9.77 in 2183 fps 423 fpe 0.378 sec 23.66 in 6.36 in 14.53 in

This is one of few rifles I've never got around to fiddling with except for tweaking the trigger a bit, fine right out of the box. All those years ago when I figured the .221 belonged in a rifle I was right as far as I'm concerned .
When did they discontinue them?

[Gerald D.]

A very nice looking stick Sir.

[montdoug]

Thanks Gerald, got lucky on that one. I was at a local gun show and a buddy who had gone a different direction from the entrance rushed up to me and said "Hey, there's something over here you wanna see! He was right. Actually I paid less than $500.00, that's what the guy was asking for it new in the box. I asked him if he'd be interested in swapping for a Remington ADL .30-06?
"Oh Yeah" he says. Small store and going into fall an elk rifle excited him a lot more then setting on on that CZ till Spring I suppose.
I ran home and grabbed the ADL and some targets I'd shot with it, it had a really slow barrel but was crazy accurate, about 20 years old.
I'd paid $280 for it with a high line Tasco scope on it as a package and after initial sight in I'd never changed the scope and it had harvested a lotta elk antelope and deer over the years but it was fanatically cared for like all of em.
I showed the rifle to the guy he looks it over and said "Is this new"? I said no and again pointed out the stack of targets most of em one hole groups. He asked if the scope went with it and I said yes. He asked if he could keep the targets I said yes again. He said "How bout a hundred bucks?" I said yeah, that'll work. I was ready to go more then that but was flabbergasted when he reached in his pocket, pulled out a hunskey and hands it to me and started boxing up my new rifle. Dollar was a lot stronger then and I don't think he much liked CZ's either .
One of the few really good deals I stumbled into over the years .

[Screaminweasil]

Originally Posted by montdoug

Thanks Gerald, got lucky on that one. I was at a local gun show and a buddy who had gone a different direction from the entrance rushed up to me and said "Hey, there's something over here you wanna see! He was right. Actually I paid less than $500.00, that's what the guy was asking for it new in the box. I asked him if he'd be interested in swapping for a Remington ADL .30-06?
"Oh Yeah" he says. Small store and going into fall an elk rifle excited him a lot more then setting on on that CZ till Spring I suppose.
I ran home and grabbed the ADL and some targets I'd shot with it, it had a really slow barrel but was crazy accurate, about 20 years old.
I'd paid $280 for it with a high line Tasco scope on it as a package and after initial sight in I'd never changed the scope and it had harvested a lotta elk antelope and deer over the years but it was fanatically cared for like all of em.
I showed the rifle to the guy he looks it over and said "Is this new"? I said no and again pointed out the stack of targets most of em one hole groups. He asked if the scope went with it and I said yes. He asked if he could keep the targets I said yes again. He said "How bout a hundred bucks?" I said yeah, that'll work. I was ready to go more then that but was flabbergasted when he reached in his pocket, pulled out a hunskey and hands it to me and started boxing up my new rifle. Dollar was a lot stronger then and I don't think he much liked CZ's either .
One of the few really good deals I stumbled into over the years .

Wow Doug!


That story made me smile


I love good deals and that sounds like a great one.


Beautiful piece.............if my CZ 221 had that nice of wood, I would have kept it outta spite. Still think the 221 doesn't fit my needs, but that stick sure does. Nice rifle.