How many members have purchased any of the AirMaks Katrans? Looking for feedback, the good, bad or ugly. I'm looking for a lightweight gun, and Katran might be a candidate, along side the Taipan Vet shorty.
Thanks in advance!
Thanks in advance!
I have one. Katran b. What would you like to know.
Mine -doesn’t like low hammer spring tension the ES gets gapy. Very consistent regulator. Shoots everything accurately. Decently quiet with out a can but with a can dang that’s quiet. Anti double feed. Mine is the early modes that a little play in the but stock. Kinda reminds me of an fx dream line. Has a great trigger.
Agree with everything above, I had a Compact Bottle and the Standard. The Standard or Version 1 had the very slightly wobbly folding stock (it's easily ignored or fixed with a small tape shim) while the later Compact Bottle Version 2 stock was perfectly solid and has two cool magnetic magazine holders.
Their use of magnets is clever and useful. I like the Daystate magnetic mag holders even better though.
Magazines are better than average. Fill probe isn't.
The only build issue on the Compact was the dust cover for the opposite side of the action lever sat proud at the unsecured end. Very minor but kind of silly too. Like the decision to use KeyMod at this point.
I bought the Compact first and loved everything but the shot count so I bought the Standard and figured I could swap parts or live with the standard and sell the other. But even with the 480cc bottle I wasn't satisfied so I ultimately sold both.
It feels like a gun that is 95% there but they needed some Americans to tell them what the market wants? Probably they think we only care about power but there are plenty of guns that get twice the shots at the same power. (Don't put me on the spot, I made that statistic up)
By now they ought to realize we want guns with Foster fills, hammer, regulator and valve adjustability, replaceable grips and stocks, Pic rails for bipods, 1/2-UNF threads, adjustable triggers, side lever cocking, larger magazines that don't interfere with scopes, and as simple an action as possible in a well made package. Better than an Impact ;-p
The folding stocks are useful for air travel in a case but otherwise they don't add much practical value everyday since the scopes usually hang further to the rear than the folding mechanism so you have to be more careful with the folded gun than anything else. But they're cool checklist items.
If you have a compressor and buddy bottle then it's a great gun!
Realistically they are $900-$1000 guns not $1400 guns.