Nice. I'm still missing a 27 in my collection. Would love a pre-war example. But they're rare, since only about 13,000 were produced from 1927 - 1938, before the Germans pumped out hundreds of thousands of them within a few years.

Picked it up off the ground more like

@@ShootAUT Nice little pistols. Well made

​@@faisaldhariwal1510 wherever he went, he didn't need it anymore.

I picked up a 24 the other day. Use Sellier&Belliot ammo marked "9mm Browning Court" I've tried domestic .380 and it doesn't like it, even after a throurough cleaning and springs from Wolff. 😮Many old European designed/manufactured handguns are like that. Evidently, European-made ammunition like 7.65 Browning (.32 ACP) 9mm Browning Short/Court/Kurz/Corto (.380 ACP) is loaded hotter than their US brethren. Found if you use European-spec ammo it will function better in those guns. SAAMI-spec tends to underload in deference to older guns of varying degrees of metallurgy and pressure said older guns. CIP on the other hand, tends to be hotter as most countries in Europe still send guns to independent proof houses and fires a magazine or two of proof ammo, loaded many times hotter to ensure functionality and safety. No catastrophic failure or usually, no failure at all, gun is given a proof mark and legal to sell or is accepted by the state for their police/military. Most American manufacturers do their proof testing internally. Usually twice SAAMI-spec is acceptable in most cases.

Yet other parts look very "crude" by comparison, though. The trigger mechanism, for example, couldn't be more simplistic.

Thanks. Well, the bore isn't perfect (a bit rough with some very small rust pits), but - so what? It's almost 100 years old. 🙂

Yet mine only has 50% of the screw for the side plate. Someone between 1929 and 2020 must have tightened it too much and took the head clean off.

@@ShootAUT That is sad, is it a common screw? There are ways to get the straw color.

I can think of a couple of classic firearms dealers in Germany and Austria who also sell parts (mostly very limited stock), if you're interested. Don't know if they ship internationally, though. One of them is very oldschool and doesn't even have a website, just e-mail.

@@ShootAUT thank you for the quick reply. They might be long shots but worth a try. I am not having any success finding one here in the USA. I also have a friend in Germany that might be able to help facilitate getting it to me. If you could share the contact info, I would veey much appreciate it!

I think your best bet would be Waffen Weber in Germany (it's currently not in stock, but can't hurt to ask) www.guns-and-more.com/en/oxid-oxid-6/oxid/oxid-oxid/P2409.html and TransArms in Austria transarms.de/kontakt/ Then there's also www.cds-ehrenreich.de/ersatzteile/ and eGun (basically Germany's ebay for firearms) www-egun-de.translate.goog/market/?_x_tr_sl=de&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=de Good luck!

Thank you! I have reached out to the first 3. Hopefully one will be able to help. Have a great day!

@@mskersey01 You too. And good luck!

A repurposed former wine cellar in Lower Austria.

Still better than pulling back in a hurry. 😉😁

28? I only know of the 24 (.380), 27 (.32, slide with flattened sides, straight grooves at the back of the slide) and a very small batch of incredibly rare 29 (like vz. 24, but in 9x19). The 24 is often mistakenly given whatever number is stamped next to proof or acceptance markings, but they're all 24s. There is a "28", but it's a Polish wz. 28 - a vz. 24 (.380) variant, built in Czechoslovakia, but with a longer, straighter grip that has a notch to accept a shoulder stock. Rumor has it that only around 1,700 were produced and delivered exclusively to Poland. Edit: The 27 is .32, not .25.

@@ShootAUT mine looks more along the lines of the 27 with the same grips. But is clearly marked cz 28 and .380 acp. Ive been trying to research it but can only find info on the 27 and 24. Thanks for responding.

@@twopersonswalksalone1968 If it's .380, it's a 24. The grips alone don't really tell anything. There're also a lot of 24s with polymer/bakelite grips. Important are the slanted grooves and the "round" slide. 24s have a rotating barrel, 27s are straight blowback pistols. The "CZ 28" is just CZ's factory stamp + the year it was built (I've seen them ranging from 26 up to 37). That's all that's to it. Mine (the one in the video) is marked CZ 29 on the left side of the slide, with a military acceptance mark "J(lion)30" on the right.

@@ShootAUT mine has marks that says CZ 28 the cz is stylized looks like a C with a space that is filled with what looks like up and down arrows then Z there is no vs next is the number 28. I was wrong about the caliber markings, there are none. Could it be a nock off? Don't know! One other KZfaqr responded with the comment the he's been looking for this model for sometime. When I got this gun I was told that it is a .380 acp and in fact came with a box of that ammo. I'm not questioning your info I'm just trying to find info on this gun.

@@twopersonswalksalone1968 I've got no problem with questions. I know enough to know that I don't know everything. 😅 But yours sounds 99.9% like a pistol vz. 24. Yes, C(arrows)Z is the proof marking of CZ. Mine has an old variant of the company logo + date, with two seperate, differently sized C(arrow)Z markings without date, one on each side. Location and size of the markings are often similar, but were far from standardized, so there're a few different variations out there. "vz." is short for vzor, which is Czech for type or model. They didn't stamp the designation or caliber on the older guns, which is where a lot of the confusion about it comes from. There are no knock-offs of that pistol to my knowledge. It wasn't _that_ popular/widespread. Testing for the caliber is quite simple: If it doesn't quite chamber a 9x19, it's a 380. In that case, a .32 cartridge slips right through the chamber down into the barrel as a whole.

Vz 38'i kastediyorsun.

I'm more of a 🍐 guy. But ok, cool.