Yay! Here is my review of the Hatsan Flash.
The Hatsan Flash in (.177 caliber) arrived today (July 3rd). This is the rifle that I chose instead of the long delayed Benjamin Fortitude. Initial thoughts:
1) It's light and cheap feeling. (duh, it's a $300 pcp)
2) It was packed "ok". The bolt was protruding through the inner (hatsan) box but was not damaged at all. It came with all the accessories as it should (probe, extra orings, two mags, single shot tray)
3) Along with the rifle I also won a UTG bug buster scope :-) this scope along with the hatsan rail along with the super-high magazine made for some interesting moments trying to get it scoped! Out of the crapload of rings I have around, only one ring would clear the mag (kind of...) and work with the bug buster. I had to use HIGH UTG dovetail rings AND shim the scope. I was able to trim some of the plastic from the UTG scope for shims :-)
4) My gun's FPE (23 fpe) does NOT live up to the advertised specs (29 fpe) on the PA web site. However, the gun's specs in the manual are different than the PA web site (22 fpe). So I'll be sending PA a semi-nastygram on this one. It shot at 1002 fpe with Air Arms 10.3 grain pellets.
5) It's quiet!
6) The trigger is significantly better than I was expecting. I have owned one hatsan before (135). I HATED that trigger. More specifically, I hated the angle that the hatsan springers pull at. This trigger is MUCH better than I could have hoped for. It's not like my FX trigger, but I would not expect to be adjusting it in the near future
7) It was too dark to do full chrony strings. I only got random shots to register on my chrony. But based on the little shooting that I've done, I'm hoping for 3 mags (42 shots) which is shy of the 48 they advertise.

I only shot it off a monopod so I can't judge accuracy yet. But I DO have a good feeling .... :-)
9) Yes, the mags are really cheap feeling and there are some obvious manufacturing flaws visible on them.
I'll have more updates later this week. Happy 4th of July folks!
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