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Airguns by Make and Model => Hatsan Airguns => Topic started by: tpelle on January 31, 2016, 06:37:57 PM
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My kids gave me a Caldwell Chronograph for Christmas, and today was the first opportunity I had to try it out. I considered at first testing my CZ-83 in 9mm Browning, but didn't want to drive 45 minutes to the range, and didn't want to disturb the neighbors by firing it off in the backyard.
AHAA! We'll try the Webley Tempest that I bought last year.
This is the model in .177. I was shooting Crosman 7.9 grain round nose pellets - the cheap ones from Wal Mart.
The advertised maximum velocity for this pistol is 420 fps.
If anyone is wondering if these guns perform true to specification, here are the results for a five shot string:
Shot 1 = 424 fps
Shot 2 = 425 fps
Shot 3 = 429 fps
Shot 4 = 424 fps
Shot 5 = 416 fps
Average = 423.60 fps
Standard Deviation = 4.72 fps
This chronograph is pretty neat for a fairly inexpensive one - I think it was about $85.00 U.S. from Amazon.com. Caldwell offers a free Android App that I installed on my old Toshiba Thrive, and it hooks to the tablet by means of a long stereo audio cord. It started out working right off the bat, bud it did take a little fiddling to figure out how to give a shot string a title in order to save it. (Tip: You have to give it the title that you want to use - suggest type of gun, date, ammo, and maybe environmental data such as time and temperature - first before shooting the string). And of course, a real man never reads the directions!
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Typical hatsan. It lives up to the advertised velocity. How's the accuracy? Been kinda wanting to get one, myself.
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Accuracy seems to be pretty decent. I really just plink with this pistol for relaxation, and I haven't gone to any great lengths looking for a particular pellet that it likes over another. I made a "reactive" target from a 3-1/2" round electrical box cover that hangs on wire hangers from an upside-down U-shaped piece of steel rod, and at a measured 10-meters I can hit it more often than not. I give the "target" a squirt of orange spray paint every so often, and I noticed today that most of my hits seem to be concentrated on the bottom of the plate, so I'll probably give the rear sights a little bump-up next time i shoot.
That's probably the main complaint that I have with the Tempest - the rear sight adjustment is kind of hit-or-miss (excuse the pun), but keep in mind that this is from an old NRA Service Rifle competitor, where we shoot iron sighted military-style rifles (I shot an AR-15) out to 600 yards.
But I have to say that I am well pleased with the consistency of the velocity results from this pistol. Especially since I've wanted a Tempest since I was a kid!
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I had an original, back in high school. Wish I still had it. Killed a lot of bullfrogs with that gun.
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The is indeed Hatsan. Probably the only honest manufacturer with it's numbers.
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No kiddin'. Just wish the rest of them would follow suit.
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The is indeed Hatsan. Probably the only honest manufacturer with it's numbers.
chronys are nice to have,i tested my 22 hatsan 125 vortex over my F1 chrony.hatsan says its shoots 1000fps but it could only achieve 480fps at less than 500 shots.not very impressive to say the least.
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Sounds like you have a bad ram. I was getting 940 with cph's in my 125vortex .
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it did shoot 940fps for first 200 shots then dropped off some to say the least.that Webley tempest has impressive numbers.
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Well clearly something went wrong then. If it 1st shot like it should ,now doesn't. Still truth in advertising if it achieved the stated numbers at 1st.
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No kiddin'. Just wish the rest of them would follow suit.
No kidding! The inflated numbers by all of the other company's are of no use in the real world
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it did shoot 940fps for first 200 shots then dropped off some to say the least.that Webley tempest has impressive numbers.
Two questions, is your gun recoiling harder, or is it easier to cock?
Harder recoil, most likely the piston seal.
Easier to cock, probably the ram is bad.