[fkienast]

I had one a long time ago. It was a great pistol. I bought it thinking .380 would be a nice cheap cartridge to shoot.

 

[M11293]

I have one in Makarov 9mm. Great pistol and a tack driver.

 

[brassmagnet]

I too have one stashed away - shot it - liked it - what can I say. Good pistol

 

[jimthompson502002]

CZ82 and CZ83 ( there are generations of each, but this is generally true ) are the selfsame pistol. The '83 is in the 9mm. short/.380 caliber, the '82 in the Soviet 9x18mm. Makarov loading. Magazines interchange and are quite common. The '82 uses "edgeless" so-called "polygonal" rifling with no distinct "lines", but the pistols are the same. I used MAK (9x18MAK) mags with my '83 and vice versa, albeit I have owned a lot more '82's.

Both are superbly reliable. I always preferred the Makarov caliber. It's a little more powerful and at the time I had cases of the stuff prepared for an article that NEVER ran. So it was also a financial consideration. Not long after I got a shiny, brand new '83, one of the hyperbole/conspiracy based, contrived "ammo panics" got started and the two boxes I had on hand were all the ".380" ( 9x17mm. "short") I ever put through it. Fiocchi ammo, if I recall. Then prices got to five, then eight times what they had been and I just dumped the pistol. It was very accurate. I owned a lot more '82's back in days of yore when now-defunct Southern Ohio Guns sold them in huge quantities. I purchased a lot of police surplus '83's, too, but they were more money.

Spent the funds to have some of the black-enameled pistols blued and had one '82 nickel plate.

I've not yet owned a Czech/VZ/ZB/CZ that wasn't a sturdy, reliable performer, and I've owned hundreds.

 

[frenchkat]

I had an 82 about 35 years ago. I thought it was made and shot well. My only problem was I felt the 82 was too much gun for just .380.

Instead of going to the 83, went with the new Taurus PT 92.

 

[Sumo]

Nice pistols but a little clunky and mags that always rattled. I prefer my Beretta 80's