I live in Russia, the Hatsans are imported in our country for almost 15 years by now. Older models, like 55-90 (they are based around the same internals), even before loud buzzwords like "quattro trigger" and "SAS" feels OK at first glance and considered as a cheaper alternative to Gamo 440, but even back than often show problems with accuracy and durability. Today our gunstores are literally flooded with Hatsan airguns: our people are not rich and the stores tends to sell the most affordable stuff. Newbies who walked beside a gunstore gets blown away by a "super-powerfull-without-a-license" airguns and there are myriads of 125 and 135 models in use. But from an engineering point of view the 125/135 model is a total nightmare: overweighted piston (in comparison to well-designed rifles of the same class, f.e. gamo-1250 and diana-350), poor quality of materials, awful rifling inside a berrels. Maybe they are not so good only in our country? Nobody likes Russia and it is very possible they selling a B-grade crap to us: the rifles that didn't pass QC. Either way, the guns are not accurate (if it can hit a glass bottle at 20 meters - it is considered OK for spring-powered Hatsan...), even after tideous tuning and adjusting they not lasts long - stock tends to break, trigger malfunctions, scope rails comes off under the weight of a scope and so on. There are a lot of spare parts in stores (incl. fake ones), but that didn't help much. Our gunstores just making money out of poor people.Castle02 wrote:... I don't have any issues with mine. Mine was pretty accurate out of the box.
The situation a little better with a PCP rifles, but they also have many issues - the same problems with barrels, the muzzle velocity may be unstable without additional tuning and adjusting. Early version of 44-10 sometimes has faulty reservoir plugs (extremely scary thing...). So there is a very strong bad reputation for a Hatsan rifles over there.
Yet the Hatsan hand pump is totally ok for the money
