OT: Paranoid Superstition

Agreed, it's why I don't recommended software, banking, computers, ISP's...

Your plan for this job sounded good to me and I would have been very happy with it👍

Saw your Hatsan post too. They've always seemed to be a bit behind the times weight wise, as in HEAVY compared to others. My Torpedo 155 (.25 springer) is 48 inches long and weighs 10lbs without a scope. I'm no weakling but going hunting with it scoped gives you a good upper body workout😆

I feel sometimes like as soon as I say something positive about a vendor or a customer things are going to go badly on the next interactions.

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I was in the oral surgeon's chair considering complimenting him on his previous good work when he accidentally jabbed my lip with a syringe needle. I hadn't said anything, thinking it was enough.

I have a 155 in .22. It is every bit of a magnum springer. Its brutal on the shot cycle. I thought I broke my fingers once when the lever got away from me. I am very careful with it. I don't recall which pellet I was using for testing, but the speeds very very very consistent with the ProChrono. Variation was only 2 or 3 FPS with many consecutive shots legitimately coming in the same. 940 comes to mind, but I don't recall what pellet it was. Probably Crosman 14.3 Hollow Points. Those are really good pellets and cheap. I'd like to sell it to somebody who is into springers. I caught the PCP bug and I have no nostalgia for springers. I have a little for MPPs, but not for springers. I got my old 1st variant Crosman Model 1 .22 going again, but I'm going to have to make a new front sight for it. The original is long gone, and they only have 2nd variant (straight barrel) replacements anywhere if they have them at all.

I'm done with Hatsan. They have a ton of refurb guns for sale on their website for a reason😆

Mine has their gas-piston, which died about ~6 months after receiving it. It had to be shipped back to HatsanUSA for factory service at my expense (~$40 July 2017). I haven't had it out in sometime and my guess is the gas leaked out again and it won't work anyway🤷

I haven't searched lately but they wouldn't sell you a replacement gas-piston at the time. Had to send your gun in for repair to get one. There was a place in Australia at the time selling a gas-piston that would fit. Suspect that shipping might make that kinda pricey and it might not have worked right.

If I was still ambitious... I'd try making it into a bullpup with a Franken stock of some sort. I've never yet seen a bullpup springer. Maybe just aluminum framing for key handling areas. Might be able to add a port to the gas ram for refilling too. I've heard rumor that some rams already have a port on them.

It is accurate and has a decent trigger. Finish/metal working is rough.

But you might have been able to shoot it off hand instead of lugging around a set of shooting sticks.

FYI: I don't buy my refurbed Hatsan stuff from Hatsan. I buy it from Field Supply. They periodically have sales in addition to the refurb price. I bought all three of my Hatsan rifles from them as well as a Hatsan PCP compressor when the price was right.

I'm fighting with them right now because the rifle I just only came with two of the three included magazines, and the DC power cord for the compressor is missing. I'll probably only use it in the shop, but who knows. I might shoot so many collared dove one day I run out of charged rifles and have to refill in the field by clipping on to the truck battery.

Makes you wonder how many people don't notice or care about details like that. The power cord and extra magazine are BIG selling points for a lot of people...

Mine came from Pyramyd. It was missing the Free clip-on Bipod but had the clip-on Sling (crap item). As you likely know a bipod on a springer isn't a good way to rest one. Why Hatsan would do that makes little sense. I always suspected it was a returned gun that somebody didn't like and made the early return window. There was a missing bit of foam packing too. That model was in short supply at the time and I'd been waiting for close to a month for one. Didn't see anything else wrong so just went with it. This was in late December. Gave it a good look, fired it a couple times and then put away till early summer. That's when I found the gas-piston too weak to push pellets out the barrel reliably.

Pyramyd has a "10 for $10 Test" you can get with your purchase (I didn't add this to my order). They fire 10 shots, inspect the gun, measure some stuff... Sounds like a good idea but would also cover up for resale any returned items that have been opened. Maybe I'm just a bit too paranoid, suspicious😆️

A lot of people in the airgun business started out or are still hobbyists trying to go pro. They are hacks, hacking their way through it, on a hack budget, and trying to make a go of it. Many only do it as a side busines, because they can't maek a living at it. I can't remember the guy's name, but I seem to recall that was the case with the guy who started Hatsan USA, which as near as I can tell is a private US owned sole proprietorship or LLC. Not Hatsan of Turkey. I think he started out as an airgun review YouTuber who provided actual on camera tested numbers and if a gun came out of the box as crap he said so. He had a bit of a reputation, but he also had an attitude I see even more in the airgun industry than in the firearms industry that in some nuanced way he was better than everybody else. Just my opinion of course. We all have a certain amount of that in some area. As some talking head on talk radio parroted once upon a time. "Every man in the room thinks he the smartest man in the room." I seem to recall he quoted some study before making that statement.

I don't look at buying a Hatsan rifle from Hatsan USA or one of their dealers the same as buying a s*it rifle like the Mini-14 for two plus weeks salary from a "reputable" large firearms manufacturer like Ruger. I look at it like trying to support another small business as long as he doesn't screw me.

Did I get screwed if I never get that power cable or that third magazine. Not enough to freak out about. The compressor and the rifle were both so cheap I could do a lot to them and still be money ahead. That doesn't mean I'm not going to try to get what I am owed or that it might not influence future purchases (like you), but I'm not going to take him to small claims over it.

I only came to know Hatsan USA because that's where I had to send it for warranty repair. As you've likely surmised by now... I did a bit of research, reading a lot of reviews, comments... anything concerning their gas-piston at the time and other repairs. I'm capable of fixing most stuff like that myself. Might have just bought another gas-piston rather than mess around sending it away had one been available...

I've nothing against the little guys if there price is reasonable as compared to elsewhere. AZ maybe cheaper but their packing sucks and they send out returned items that are broken too. It's always a gamble nowadays with HF, AZ, Ebay... It's my form of gambling, I always get SOMETHING but not always what I anticipated😆️