Predom Lucznik .177 Target Pistol Reviews

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Good Points: Heavy, feels like a firearm in your hand.Looks like a firearm since the spring piston is hidden in the grip.Steel and aluminum construction.Click adjustable rear sight for windage and elevation.

Bad Points: You might need to do some repairs to get it in shooting shape.The plastic grips have sharp edges.

General comments: I bought my Predom Lucznick from a military surplus firearm dealer in Ft. Worth, Texas in August of 2007 while traveling. As of last check in January 2008, they quit offering it. Perhaps another shipment will come in someday.My pistol is cast with the year 1970 on the "receiver" and stamped 1974 on the barrel breech. It came with a holster and cleaning rod all for $50. It is good condition with minor scratches in the black paint on the receiver/grip assembly and some bluing wear on the cocking link that also is the trigger guard.I shot about 50 pellets through it before dismantling it to check its innards. It seemed fairly consistent in point of aim, but the rear sight had to be set at maximum elevation. This meant that the rear site adjusting screw was nearly out of threads and hanging out of the pistol.I cleaned it up and oiled the old leather piston seal (probably original) but it was worn short from wear, allowing the piston seal mounting screw to strike the end of the chamber when fired.After finding a source that had the Walther LP53 piston seal and piston washer (also made of leather), I finally got around to replacing these items last week. I haven't found a replacement for the leather breech seal yet. All that I can find are o-rings that don't exactly fit and would have to be glued in position.The new leather piston seal and new leather washer wouldn't fit into the cylinder properly though, so I had to reduce the washer's outside diameter by sanding it with emery cloth. The washer spaces the seal out to the proper diameter to snugly fit the cylinder bore. I also polished as many scratches from the piston and bore as I could but being careful not to remove hardly any metal.I've only put about another 100 pellets through it, and it still shot really low requiring the rear sight to still be at maximum elevation. After measuring where I wanted the rear sight height to actually be, I filled down the front sight blade by 1/16" to a new height of 3/32". That took care of my rear sight problem. The pistol shoots well enough at 20 feet. At 40 feet, I have trouble making consistent groups, though. Chances are it's my old eyes unable to sight this pistol well. The sight is a target style sight, which means that the front blade fits tightly in the rear sight notch when the sights are aligned. There is not much daylight between the front sight and rear sight, which gives my older eyes much trouble.The pistol itself is about 13" long overall and has a barrel length of 9.5". However only 5.92" of the barrel is rifled due to 3.58" of the front half of the barrel being freebore. I guess that extra length is needed to give more leverage for cocking the pistol since it is quite stiff to cock.The machine work of the pistol is quite rough compared to western standards and you can see all the tool marks. All the steel is blued and the aluminum is painted black. The steel piston is chromed and rides in an aluminum bore. It has two mainsprings that unscrew easily out of the bottom pistol grip cap that resembles a CO2 cover.Regardless of all that, I am glad I found this old Polish air pistol and took the time to keep it shootable. It is very unique to me and I know I will be glad that I came across it as time goes by.

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I bought mine from a surplus dealer for about $50. My example looks good, shoots great. What more could one want. A friend who's better with tools than I, is making a set of wood thumb rest grips for this pistol. I'm planning on buying 1 or 2 more of these fine pistols before they are gone. If you hate plastic as I do, get one while you can.

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I was able to get this airpistol for 85 dollars, what I think is unbelievable for a gun of such kind of quality. The recoil is very strange at first because of unusual design, and it requires some practice to get used to.After 100-200 shots the gun shoots as a real target pistol should do one hole from 10 meters. My specimen was built in 1974 and still a very good shooter. Well, quite honestly I bought 3 pistols from a online gundealer which were advertised as in good conditions. Apparently only ...

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The Predom Lucznik .177 is a 1970's Polish copy of the well-known Walther LP53. How it compares to the original I don`t know, but the Lucznik is a good pistol in its own right.

Rugged all steel construction with comfortable plastic grips, with a good feel and balance in the hand. The Lucznik is a break-barrel cocker, but the spring and piston are located inside the grip, which helps dampen any recoil. The trigger is a really nice light one-stager, finely adjustable with a predictable let-off. ...