M1key, thank you for ruining my breakfast - that is one ugly rifle-like thing! The NRA Museum would have loved that one for display.
Before you order a CZ in 7.62x39, call CZ and ask if the rifle will chamber the cheap white box ammo. It won't. It is a fine rifle, very accurate at shorter distances but falls off at 200+. You need to shoot at least Wolf or Tulamo with the coating on the shell.
Umm, not so much. Mine hasn't failed with anything I've found yet. The only issues I had was with ultra hard primers, and that sometimes led to misfires. I have had no difficulty chambering or firing any ammo I've tried, and I've used a few different factory loads here and there. As for accuracy, I think we posted some refutations of that here and there, but let me show another.
200 yards with NOE 129 grain bullet. Front rested.
300 yard target, with red dot added to show where the other strike was. Front rested, scoped. I no longer use a scope on this carbine.
200 yards, front rested, scoped.
There's another person here who shoots 7.62x39mm out of another rifle who gets groups that make me look like a piker.
Now, before we make this thread solely about the wonderful CZ 527M, I believe it was simply about the availability of bolt rifles in this caliber. I'd have to agree with a few premises;
1) The round is widely seen as an AK/SKS round, and some of the surplus stuff out there doesn't inspire much confidence as a hunting round.
2) Where the bolt rifle in this caliber came out, the round is widely available, has been for decades, and is seen as something that works, with few of the restrictions on hunting ammo that we have in the US. Note, I am not disagreeing with our restrictions, as FMJ doesn't strike me, (no pun intended), as a effective hunting round, while other bullet designs exist.
3), Americans are used to having wide varieties of rifles and ammunition available - other countries, not so much. Might be all the explanation you need, right there, a bolt action rifle, (palatable to more restrictive governments), that takes a common round in a place that has few other commonly produced civilian ammo. Just a thought.
Regardless, it's fun, accurate, light, handy, etc., same arguments that can be raised for carrying an AR-15 into the bush, (without ten tons of Tommy Tactical add-ons, that is), for a camp rifle, etc. Can't argue with that, wouldn't try, but I can say my impractical, practical carbine does the trick for me.