After reading about the P17 coming up several times in the "Cheap airguns that surprised you" thread I had to try one. I couldn't believe a $30 gun could get such positive reviews, especially the trigger. So I ordered a couple to try out. Airgun Depot had them to my door in two days. I was just short of shocked how fun they were out of the box. Very substantial feel and yes the trigger was nothing you would expect for the price break of gun. But I like to tinker and figured it could be even better. So I got out the polishing stones and went to work. ?
Pretty easy to work on.
You can't expect a manufacturer to be too detailed on this price break of a gun but it was pretty rough.
Not very hard to correct.
Even the sides had burrs so I also did the sides and trigger.
The trigger is adjustable so I took a little slack out of it by turning in the adjuster grub and polished the top of it as well. Originally the trigger pull was 2 lbs 11 oz. I stretched the trigger spring out to take some tension off.
At first it dropped the pull to under a pound.
Felt good but I changed it to over a pound.
It is so smooth now. Sounds like blasphemy, but it really feels right in there with my match grade gun triggers. I am amazed how well it feels and breaks for a $30 gun. I would highly recommend it.
I'd be happy to modify yours. Shipping both ways would be more than the gun. ?
I forgot mention, the trigger linkage was bone try. I lubed it up as well.
Here is an update shooting the gun with polished trigger. My son came over this morning and tried it. He thought it felt as good or better than his FX guns. It really does break nice and clean. Still can't believe it. ?
Excellent post!
My local Walmart had a close out sale on these several years ago and I picked up two of them. After some similar work to what you have done here and some other mods, they are really fun shooters. I put a dot sight on one of mine. I used two of those miniature utg Picatinny-to-dovetail adapters, and sawed two kerfs across the top dovetail rail.
Group size at 15 yards is amazingly small from a rest.
You are correct, the gun is simply amazing. I have had one since they were introduced. once produced a 30 yard off hand kill shot on a feathered pest garden raider. I pick them up used when ever I find them. Up to 4 now. Want to do a .20 and .22 barrel conversion. I have a .22 barrel that is long enough to make two out of. Would gladly give up the second half in exchange for someone doing the machine work to fit . Also want to do a longer bbl shoulder stocked one .
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We literally opened the packaging, walked into the back yard and my son and I started to shoot them. No sight adjustment just a few practice shots to figure out where they were hitting and went for the father son shoot out.
20 yards, 6" Shoot-n-C target using JSB 7.33 pellets. Chrony put them a very consistent 398-402 fps.
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I have to give this round to my son. His target is on the left. Not bad for a completely untouched stock gun shooting a bit beyond it's intended range.
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Good job, Rick. With a quick search you’ll find other nice mods and fixes. BTW, it’s easy to go down the rabbit hole modifying this gun.
I have the P17 and the Weihrauch HW40 that it copies. The P17 is just as accurate, but shoots a little hotter for some reason.
Thank you. I'll sniff around the web some more. Is this the same "Mr B" from ADV rider?
I picked up a P17 a few weeks ago and I'm very impressed on how great it shoots out of the box. It shot as good and smooth as my FAS 6004 and it cost 15 times less.
I like the feel and weight and it is offers great and inexpensive practice for 10 meter and Steel PB's Plate shooting.
I know it says trigger mod but I’ll add my two cents . Get a roll of tin duct tape place two( maybe three ) layers over the piston face to tighten up the clearance . This will bring the velocity up close to 470 fps with 7.3 grain pellets . If you install a 10” barrel with the tape ,it will go over 500 fps with the same pellet. There’s also porting the valve outlet , it can be done with a Dremel and small diamond bit , I try to round off the sharp corner .
Anybody know of a cocking aid that mounts onto the gun to assist in closing the stroke and how much it cost and availability?
Its a really fun gun to shoot but tends to get a bit tiring shooting it all day long.
Interesting note is this gun seems to shoot the oversized Crosman Premier Pointeds really well which my other guns seem to hate.
TIA
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Interested in getting one of these for a steal . Walmarts near me don't stock them (southern NY) and in some distant Walmarts they were $17 on sale. Would grab a few for that price.
I know all the online vendors but is there some store I'm missing that carries these?
Not at that price. I got mine from Airgun Depot. Very fast shipping.
