age query

robbie mars

Can any one inform me how I can check the age of my cz 452 please

FISMA

Q: “What year was my firearm made?”

A: Each CZ firearm has the year of manufacture stamped on the firearm itself. Pistol marks are located in a small oval behind the extractor/ejection port. It will be a 2 digit code indicating the year it was manfactured. Rifles generally have the manf date stamp on the right side of the action, slightly behind where the barrel threads into the receiver. The rifle mark is a proofstamp along with the 2 digit code.

In recent years, the two digit stamp has started to be placed in front of the serial number along with the proof stamp.

bluezulu49

The information in the post above is from the CZ USA site and I wonder if they do things differently there. ( Or describe them differently).

I would expect the right side of the rifle to be the side on my right looking from butt to muzzle when the rifle is shouldered.

We have a 1947 Brno Model 1 and a 2009 CZ 452 and both of these have the proof marks and year stamp on the left side of the barrel on the side opposite the bolt lever when mounted.

Stamping the year on the receiver is something which was apparently not done on the earlier Brno Model 1's. My sons 1947 and one made in 1946 which I saw recently in a gun shop have the year only on the barrel with no marks on the receiver.