Changing CZ 22 hornet into a 17 hornet

This is one do over that you don't need gunsmith skills just check writing skills.

1. You send your barreled action off to a barrel maker that does rebarreling and have them take off your old barrel and replace it with a 17 Hornet Barrel

2. Find a trusted gunsmith with a record of satisfied customers to order a barrel and do the installation for you.

The 17 Hornet should feed out of your 22 Hornet magazine just fine.

Now you just have to buy dies, bullets, special cleaning rods and .17 powder funnel
 
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I think that it should be not only easy to do but worthwhile as well. The .17 Hornet is a real honey of a round and only takes 10-12 grains of powder to reach 3700 fps or more with the 20 grain Vmax. I have big plans on mine this spring taking out a few hundred of our local ground squirrels and later prairie dogs.
 
I'd just buy another CZ in 17 Hornet.

A quality barrel and good gunsmith will be close to, if not equal to the price of the new rifle.
 
RePete is spot on.

I just reread your post and assumed you were talking about redoing a 22 Hornet to 17 Hornet. If the rifle is any other caliber than 22 Hornets it would be a tough go to change over.
 
Originally Posted By: AWS
I just reread your post and assumed you were talking about redoing a 22 Hornet to 17 Hornet. If the rifle is any other caliber than 22 Hornets it would be a tough go to change over.

It says "Changing CZ 22 hornet into a 17 hornet" in the subject.

I had ER Shaw rebarrel my 527 last year and price with gunsmithing and all was about $400. It turned out even better than I hoped for. I wish I could show you the last three shot 100 yard group I got with it. You could not push a pencil through it without tearing the paper.
 
Originally Posted By: AWSRePete is spot on.

I just reread your post and assumed you were talking about redoing a 22 Hornet to 17 Hornet. If the rifle is any other caliber than 22 Hornets it would be a tough go to change over.

Correct.....if the doner isn't a 22 Hornet add the cost of new bottom metal and magazine to the equation.

If it is a 22 Hornet changing it would be a sacrilege.
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Rusty, when I came back I just reread the body of the post and forgot to look at the title, got it right the first time. Old age is an excuse I can use now.
 
Like many, I am a big fan of the little CZ 527's, but I'm also a bigger fan of custom barrels with top quality chambers, so I'd opt for the re-barrel.
 
Originally Posted By: AWS Old age is an excuse I can use now.

Ha! I have been using it for years now and it is no longer just an excuse! Just a fact. It is kinda nice not to have to ask for the "senior discount" anymore. They just give it automatically.

I tried to explain to my 4-year-old grandson that it's perfectly normal to accidentally poop your pants, but he's still making fun of me whenever I do it though.
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Originally Posted By: Rustydust

I had ER Shaw rebarrel my 527 last year and price with gunsmithing and all was about $400.

I'd hardly call Shaw a premium barrel and I doubt they true the action or lap lugs while it's apart.

I'd much rather have a factory CZ barrel and still have the 22 Hornet for a couple of hundred more.

Buds has CZ 17 Hornet for $635.

 
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Originally Posted By: RustydustI had ER Shaw rebarrel my 527 last year and price with gunsmithing and all was about $400. It turned out even better than I hoped for. I wish I could show you the last three shot 100 yard group I got with it. You could not push a pencil through it without tearing the paper.


Originally Posted By: RePeteI'd hardly call Shaw a premium barrel and I doubt they true the action or lap lugs while it's apart.


just to keep it real, sounds like the shaw shoots as good if not better than a "premium" barrel.
 
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Just to keep it real, sounds like the shaw shoots as good if not better than a "premium" barrel.

Well, I have had four of them and everyone of them shoots as good as my Hart, Shilen, Criterion or Krieger barrels. I know there there are those out there that to this day turn their noses up at them but for the life of me I cannot understand why. If I ever had one bad one I never would have bought another. For many years now I have felt that they were the best barrel bargains out there. Killed lots and lots of small furry critters with them including my longest kill prairie dog ever at 705 yards.

Best barrel made? Nah- I doubt that. Better than I will ever need? Probably so.
 
Sorry guys I guess I wasn't very clear in my OP. I have the 527 in .22 hornet and was thinking of rebarreling it into a 17 hornet.



Sounds like if it's going to cost me $400+ I may as well just buy a new 527 rifle in 17 hornet. That's the info I was after. Thanks guys.
 
I have two Shaw barrels and they both are good. There are still horror stories from days gone by about Shaw barrels, I believe they retooled their barrel making end quite a number of years ago. Funny almost everyone that b-t-hs about Shaw barrels have never shot one.
 
Originally Posted By: SlickerThanSnot
Originally Posted By: RustydustI had ER Shaw rebarrel my 527 last year and price with gunsmithing and all was about $400. It turned out even better than I hoped for. I wish I could show you the last three shot 100 yard group I got with it. You could not push a pencil through it without tearing the paper.


Originally Posted By: RePeteI'd hardly call Shaw a premium barrel and I doubt they true the action or lap lugs while it's apart.


just to keep it real, sounds like the shaw shoots as good if not better than a "premium" barrel.

I didn't say it wasn't accurate....I said it isn't a premium barrel and it isn't....period.

I also said that I'd rather have a factory CZ barrel than a Shaw and I stand by that.

And I'm not just saying that because they're cheap....I've been involved with a couple of them including breaking one in for an old fellow at our range. It never did shoot better than 1.5 MOA and mined copper like a Kennecott employee.
 
Originally Posted By: RePeteI'd just buy another CZ in 17 Hornet.

A quality barrel and good gunsmith will be close to, if not equal to the price of the new rifle.

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FYI, If you are planning to buy a CZ 527 17 Hornet, I'd consider doing it sooner than later. I was looking at different places online that had the "Varmint" model in stock last night, decided this morning to go ahead and order another one and the top four places with the best price were already out of stock, so waiting ended up costing me another $35.

It seems every spring these little CZ 527 17 Hornets become scarce and are harder to find.

FWIW, If I already had a CZ 527 22 Hornet and wanted a 17 Hornet, I'd go with having the one you have re-barreled, fitted, and chambered with a top quality custom barrel done by a gunsmith that does a lot of small bore builds. Someone like Kevin Weaver would be my choice.
 
If only I had known the "secret of the Shaw barrels" before I recently foolishly plunked down some money for an apparently "only equally as good Lilja" but for more money.

Bummer on my part for not reading this earlier.

Oh well. Now that I know "the Shaw Secret" from the internet, there's always next time. Or not.
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