Nice post.Take the phillips screw and lock-washer located just behind the trigger out and put blue loc-tite on it.If you don't the stock will loosen and the three pins just above the trigger assembly will vibrate out and mar your stock.Trust me. It looks like they can't but the stock will move when shot if that screw loosens. If you don't have lock-tite, at least check the screw and snug it if needed until you get some.Hope you love yours as much as I do mine!
Very nice,try HN ftt 5.53 and jsb heavies 5.53
Hey bikedave99,Shoot the gun and enjoy before you start tinkering , once you go down that road, your a mechanic (it's never ending).If you got the springer, "What a deal for $150" -> right !!!Kirk
OK, I had almost the identical experience - this could almost be my own post, it is so bizarrely close.I got my 95 in .177 on Monday from MidwayUSA -$106, $118 shipped (two-days to ship it).My stock was similarly boring, too-fine, too straight grain, too dark of finish that doesn't really even look like walnut. I really wanted a nice wood stock and this one isn't it. The OP's stock actually looks a bit nicer than mine, which has a blotch on one side of the butt where the stain did not take. It's also bigger and chunkier than I expected.I also put a Hammers 3x9x32AO scope on mine, but bought it from Ar cher Airguns (why does the site censor the name of that vendor? My experience with them was very good) and the included one-piece mount seems to be pretty secure. I also found the bundled Optima to be garbage.Minimal dieseling with mine past the first half dozen rounds, though. It was initially very hard to break open or close the barrel (although cocking requires only average effort, maybe 30-35lbs), but that has significantly improved after about 30 shots.Mine shoots better groups at 10m - I've had some single-hole groups. This could be a combination of one gun needing more break-in than the other and/or pellet selection. I've only tried three pellets through it so far, cheap Winchester hollow points that are really accurate in my Benjamin Prowlwer, Crosman wadcutters, and Beeman hollow points. The Beemans were, by a significant margin, the most accurate, the ones that were shooting single-hole groups. Strangely, the Beemans shot about 1.5-2.0" right of the bull where the other two pellets were hitting.I think tomorrow I'll try to adjust the trigger, since it is very, very heavy out of the box and I'll probably apply some Loctite to the screws.
Dave, the Hammers 3x9x32AO scope is quite decent, a real step up from the other scopes I've got that have been the cheap Chinese tubes included with my several rifles. However, I snuck in a last minute bid on a 4x16x40AO MD illuminated reticle Leapers on eBay, won for a bargain price of about what I paid for the Hammers, and it just came yesterday. Although I don't have a mount for it yet (should arrive mid-week), the Leapers scope is really impressive, I would say notably better than the Hammers, just holding it up to my eye.I really haven't been able to shoot the 95 much yet, but I snuck in a 5-shot group yesterday kneeling. I don't necessarily feel like I've got the steadiest aim with the gun (my shooting muscles have atrophied a bit and I need to rebuild some muscle tone to keep the crosshairs from wobbling) but so far, I either keep getting lucky or it's one easy-to-shoot-accurately rifle - I was surprised to see that I had a quarter-sized diagonal line of holes all in the black going straight through the center of the bull (at 10m - not bad with no rest).I'm thinking there may actually be some modest quantities of grain underneath the dark finish, so I may try to refinish my stock this winter. Anybody have a suggestion on something to use to strip off the base finish and stain? I have to admit that I was kind of disappointed with my Hatsan the day it arrived, but it has really started to grow on me.Anyone have a suggestion for someone to whom to send the gun to for tuning? I was thinking about sending it in to Flying Dragon and let Mike Melick tune it - people are extremely enthusiastic about his tuning work, he advertises that he tunes most brands, not just his Chinese ones, and it sounds like his rates are quite reasonable.
Hey Uglymike,Bummer It would have been nice to see what Mike could have done with it You should read the post that gene_sc (owner of the GTA website) wrote in January 2012 about tuning the Hatsan 95 (using a gas ram)!Hopefully, you'll get your $$ back from Midway?