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Thanks for posting your experiences.

I had similar experiences with my 550FS and I posted the entire saga, an edda, really, long enough it would take the entire trip from roskildefjord to vinland fighting a headwind to tell!

I tried to get others to post their experiences with CONTROL ROUND feeding issues and CZ's but got little response. Your experience here indicates what I have suspected; actions are made in a very few configurations and more or less barrels are just twisted on and the guns shipped with little or no actual smithing of the rifle to insure proper function. For myself, I spent many hours figuring out the problems and doing the work myself. If I had sent the gun to a gunsmith I am certain it would have added a tremendous amount to the cost and multiple ships to-boot. Why? Because the gun WAS sent to the CZ custom shop to be rebarreled, was supposedly tested for feeding with the new cartridge and when I received it it would not feed PERIOD in spite of the cries and lamentations of the gunsmith on the telephone. The reason was because the box magazine and follower were improper to the new cartridge. Wouldn't feed properly before the change, and wouldn't feed after. This I know because CZ was gracious enough to send me the parts and tell me "of course the gun won't feed without these parts". Regardless, it wouldn't feed properly with the parts they originally fitted the gun with in the original caliber before it was rebarreled! A mess from stem to stern.

Now it is 100%, but only after MUCH work on my part.

And my lesson was learned on a cheap production FS rifle. There is no way I would place a single red cent on a CZ for any "expensive" model. Seems like there are some that have posted good experiences here, but I prefer penny ante poker in my living room to the craps table in Vegas.

Of course, XAUSA is correct. Good heavens, guys, anybody that has experience selling guns in America can tell you they have seen many that won't perform as implied or advertised. I personally have seen auto pistols that won't feed a round, barrels that unscrewed off revolvers, parts that literally fell off the gun when the action was cycled, etc. Don't tell me this fellow has a "case". Besides, you would spend more than the gun's value getting some attorney to understand why a gun needs to "feed" when it doesn't eat much more getting him to meet CZ in court. That direction leads to a black hole IMO. Good luck.

IMO, and this is just my opinion, bigboar is in a pickle. If he were me, I would send the guns back. I figured out my problems and knew enough about the fixes needed and was willing to spend the time upon time to get the thing right...including going to a new caliber and now am very happy, not at CZ but at me for doing the work. It became a hobby of its own, really, and didn't "cost" me anything but time. In the case of bigboar, there he has virtually TWO new rifles to be built and tho some might not see his thousands as much, I do. I had no guarantees my rifle would work in the end but at $700 I was willing to roll the dice. I would NOT be willing to roll his dice as so much monkeying was needed on mine there was not way they would have taken the gun back in the end had I been unsuccessful.

Ever heard of..."you voided your warranty...?

Chin-up bigboar and please post your results!

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