Interesting pre-review, I watched it last night right after you posted it and it is pretty cool how they took one action and did so much with it. Which isn't new(FX), except at this price point. lt is kinda ugly but I get what you're saying about not having to take your hand off for reloading. Like you mentioned though, the elephant in the room is, the noise issue. I know it is not in your pervue to modify the test guns but I know the first thing that I would do is whatever I had to, to get a DonnyFL-anything on the end of that barrel. I am really impressed with how well these "low-end" Hatsan's shoot; and the Flash series finally dealt with their biggest problem, -WEIGHT! That is what always kept me away before, no more, and these are a steal compared to most. I look forward to your full review, I like all of your pellet testing. There is no way that I would take a chance on buying a lot of pellets w/o seeing them work for somebody first. I hope those pile drivers hold up at distance because I won't buy slugs until they are cheaper than .22LR bullets.