Any guns you regret buying"

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bsahogger said:
Benjamin Marauder Field & Target... tried all the fixes on this forum (shy of a Huma regulator), couldn't get rid of the POI shift no matter what.
Then made mistake number 2 & went back to Air Arms. Discovered that Covid or something dealt them a heavy blow, either lost key employees or just went off the tracks, not the product I've used & respected for over 15 years. Got a 510 Ultimate Sporter XS, been trying now for 6 months to get it to work, Pyramyd couldn't care less.
These two guns ruined my 2023 prospects of entering the world of HFT.
Going FX route now, hopefully UA stands behind products & I can actually start having fun instead of messing around with junk guns & terrible vendors.
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Why not consider Daystate BRK also? There are a lot more mixed opinions of FX currently than Daystate/BRK. I’m not saying they are without issue, but is documented a lot less. I wish there was HFT shoots near me, I’d love to go with my Revere.
 
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Florida_Man said:
Why not consider Daystate BRK also? There are a lot more mixed opinions of FX currently than Daystate/BRK. I’m not saying they are without issue, but is documented a lot less. I wish there was HFT shoots near me, I’d love to go with my Revere.
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Just don't like the looks of any of the Daystate guns. I know they perform but I do attach quite a bit of value to aesthetics!
 
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bsahogger said:
Just don't like the looks of any of the Daystate guns. I know they perform but I do attach quite a bit of value to aesthetics!
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10-4, I just thought you might like a Huntsman because of the rifles you already tried.

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bsahogger said:
Just don't like the looks of any of the Daystate guns. I know they perform but I do attach quite a bit of value to aesthetics!
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There is still a lot of support out there for FX. You have utah air out west and cape fear airguns in the east. I have no experience with utah but Newman at cape fear is top notch. I believe he was one of the head techs at fx USA. He knows his stuff and either has or can get anything you need. I would probably buy a new gun from him. There is something to be said for that support in this industry. Fx gets a lot of flack but I have had great luck with the impact. My m3 out performs anything I’ve ever owned by far. I was just shooting it today and it still impresses. On one tune to be able to shoot 33.95 at 900 and 25.39 at 900 with less than a 10 fps spread for both is impressive. My vulcan couldn’t come close to doing that. I also have a mk2 30 cal I got from cosmic. It is still a work in progress to find the strict consistency my m3 has but it shoots lights out to 75 yards I have shot it. I probably should focus more on accuracy than the 15-20 fps spread it has but it bugs me. Lol. Either way you can’t go wrong. BRK and FX are both great. I will most likely eventually own a ghost too. They are super intriguing.

Regrets ? I would say the Benjamin Maximus. That gun was just cheap looking, feeling and the way it shot.
 
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Rob_in_NC said:
Not to go off track here, but I have been looking at that .30 Hatsan since it came out... every time I get close to pulling the trigger to get one, I see a post like this. I need it about as much as I need a third nipple... but I always look. The last time I was serious, I had a coworker hit me up who had gotten one last year and asked me why that his gun now was easy to cock, rattles and wont shoot a pellet. That pretty much sealed it for me. I told him it sounded like a broken spring, but good luck getting a replacement. He wanted to stick with springers (the Hatsan was his first and only experience with an airgun) so I steered him towards an RWS 54 and actually found him one at the Hickory show and mailed to him.
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It doesn't have a spring, it uses a pressurised piston. It is a simple matter to pressurize the piston with a hpa pump. I can't remember the recommended pressure, it may be reported in the Hatsan forum
 
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Sqwirl57 said:
I dont necessarily regret buying it but the TX200 was the most disappointing springer I ever bought. I had purchased a .22 HW97K and the gun was just phenomenal. I had only ever used Gamos prior to that so my expectations weren't exactly high for springers in general.

Skip ahead a few months and I started asking myself "if a $500 springer can do this, I wonder how amazing a $900 one is?" I ended up getting a TX200HC in .22 and quickly found out that I wasn't paying more for a better shooting gun. I was paying more for a prettier gun. My 97K actually outshot that TX200 by quite a bit.
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What was the power level on your .22 hw97k? Was it under 12ft/lb limit
 
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namo81 said:
I went to use my m 7 year old mod 95 vortex .22 earlier this year after it had sat for a few months and found it lost compression in the gas piston due to a leak.

Reached out to HatsanUSA and they sold me a replacement for $50. It was a different design than the original gas piston, it appears to no longer have a degassing screw. I read the new design is more reliable as far as leaks go, but was a little disappointed that the pressure can no longer be tinkered with if I wanted to.

Install was a bit of a pain but not too bad. It was my first time ever really working on an air rifle and I made a few mistakes. The biggest mistake was removing some pins from the quattro trigger that didn't really need to come out and the whole thing fell apart.

That ended up being a valuable mistake though, since I had to figure out how to reassemble the entire trigger mechanism, I am now very familiar with how they work. It also gave me a reason to clean and re-lube all of the parts with a higher quality moly grease.

Thankfully the rifle has been working fine since the repair.
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Did you find a decent video on how to do it? I have found a couple but looks pretty complicated? Mine went out this week, out of warranty but never shot 200 pellets through it. Hatsan said they would do it for $90 including parts and shipping back or $50 for the new part. I like the gun (its a 95 Hatsan also) but wondering if I should look for another brand that might last longer with the gas ram? Thanks
 
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onemetalknee said:
Did you find a decent video on how to do it? I have found a couple but looks pretty complicated? Mine went out this week, out of warranty but never shot 200 pellets through it. Hatsan said they would do it for $90 including parts and shipping back or $50 for the new part. I like the gun (its a 95 Hatsan also) but wondering if I should look for another brand that might last longer with the gas ram? Thanks
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Mike Ellingsworth has a bunch of vids on YouTube that show how to disassemble a model 95. I haven't found a video showing a gas ram replacement but it's fairly straightforward. Make sure you have a long clamp to compress the new piston while reinstalling the pins on the rear cap.

Also be sure you take photos of the quattro trigger assembly from several angles once you remove the stock. All of the parts are held together with pins and springs and tends to want to fall apart. It's not hard to reassemble, but having pictures to reference will be a huge help.
 
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