The 1701P will be my first PCP pistol and was purchased from John Swenson of New England Airguns
I selected the 1701 because I wanted a reasonably-sized pistol that I could use for 10-meter shooting one-handed.
Along with having the heft-and-accuracy capability to use-with a two-handed-hold on targets out-to 20-yards.
As such, a Lothar-Walther barrel was imperative to me ... didn’t want to be concerned about potential barrel-related accuracy issues.
Or, having to tinker with my pistol to extract expected precision.
As-is, this little pistol certainly has filled-the-bill for me reasonably well.
My pistol is equipped-with a Crosman/Williams fully-adjustable, square-notch rear-sight.
Installing the rear-sight was simple and straight-forward.
And after mounting, sight alignment at 8-yards was much closer than I had expected to be OFF.
As I found-out while attempting to pop-off some very small pecans while performing a rough sight-in.
If there’s one thing I hate doing ... is sighting-in a new gun.
I dread the process.
With the 1701P ... everything came surprisingly easy-and-quick.
In short-order, I was firing a 3-shot string at 10-meters and was making adjustments along-the-way.
After about 5-strings, I was "ON” at 10-meters.
I got cocky and quickly placed some more targets at 15-yards.
Again, the targets were slightly-smaller than normal-sized pecans.
And, I commenced to-setting the sight-adjustments for 15-meters.
As I attempted to smack some pecans (of course, I missed a few), I noted the placement of the POI.
If I was consistently impacting LEFT ... I corrected-for the misalignment.
By the way, I never had to touch the front-sight ... it remained in-place as it came from the factory.
Being reasonably satisfied-with my “ZERO” being very close.
I put the pistol away until the next day - as it was beginning to cloud-over.
In the morning after the sun was nice-and-bright, I fired about 20-warmup shots.
Then at the spur-of-the-moment, I selected a freshly-hung paper-target at the 15-yard mark.
I fired-off a shot and heard a satisfyingly clear “ting,” while-at the same time. I saw the target move.
With my binoculars, I noted a POI right-at 6-o’clock, slightly to-the-left, at-the-bottom of the 3-inch target.
I had held the pistol with the whole orange “pumpkin on the post.”
The POA/POI was what I had been employing on the smallish pecans.
As such, the “6-o’clock” POI was correct.
For my next shot, I split-the-pumpkin with the front-sight post and rested the black-diamond of the orange-target on-top of the front sight.
I really took-my-time squeezing this shot-off ... the pellet impacted just as-I-held with a soft “tong” and the target not swinging much.
This last shot confirmed my “final ZERO” ... feeling smug with myself ... I called-it quits for the day - no sense in pushing my luck any further.
Standing Offhand. Two-Handed Hold
Crosman Destroyer 7.4gr
Two-shots at 15-Yards
