CZ-52's, springs, S&B ammo and other general goofiness

[WonderNine]

I rep from Wolff springs once mentioned to me in an email that if a gun is throwing brass closer than 3 feet behind me that I should decrease the recoil spring weight and if it's throwing them farther than 6 (or was it 9) feet away to increase the spring weight.

He also stressed that this is just a "general" rule and not all encompassing.

My BHP throws the 9mm NATO casings about 15 feet back and to the far right with the original recoil spring from 1982, but that's not the point of this thread. Btw, it does basically the same thing with the 17lb. (factory standard) Wolff Spring that I unstalled and then removed later. It also has the factory standard 32lb. mainspring. (Pre 1975 models had the 25lb. mainspring.)

The point is, my unissued 1953 CZ-52 (I recieved from AIM surplus about a month ago now) throws 7.62X25mm S&B brass about twenty feet and more back. Now......isn't S&B loaded quite a bit tamer than what was originally fired through this gun? What's up here.......?

 

[arinvolvo]

i call shenanigans on that bit of wisdom.

different guns will throw brass different distances...even when properly "sprung".

 

[WonderNine]

My Colt Sistema throws Winchester White Box brass about 2 feet behind me.

I agree, he's a saleman and was giving his marketing pitch. Still I have to wonder if anybody else thinks this way and if so why? And if not, why not?

 

[Tropical Z]

My CZ-52's launch their empties into low orbit as well.I think its a design feature.

 

[spin180]

My CZ52 shucks brass like a sporting clay trap.

The first time I shot it, I was at a new range that I had never been to before. The parking area was about 10-15 feet behing the firing line and slightly down hill. I lit off a couple magazines with the CZ52, to find the brass being thrown back onto the vehicles parked behind me. Boy was I surprised/embarassed about that! No damage though, and we all had a good laugh.

It's also pretty cool to get that supersonic crack that you usually only hear with a rifle, from a pistol.

 

[alwims]

My wife won't stand anywhere to the right or behind me when I'm shooting my CZ52, and I mean anywhere. She was standing by the car, about 25' while I was shooting and I heard a scream, turned around and she is damn near undressed from the waist up trying to fish out that brass. I couldn't stop laughing untill we got home and I saw the welp above her left......... She tried to get me to stand there and let her shoot it but I declined, I stood behined the car.

 

[CZPreB]

Ditto. I recently had the exact same experience as spin180. Not a great way to "meet the neighbors." (Fortunately, they were understanding, too...)