Page 2 - Hatsan 1x30 Red Dot Sight Reviews

Nice, durable dove tail red dot with a small/fine dot. I believe it's 3 moa, where other dot sights are 4-6 moa, which are too large for precise shooting. 11 brightness settings but 1-3 Is fine for me. Obviously as brightness Increases, then so does the size of the dot, slightly. Works great for low light pesting and is solid. I've used It on my Beeman P17 and my Bandit, but On the bandit the mags wont work with it and I really don't want to use big ugly tall adapters that mess up my poi downrange. Yes, you can obviously still sight It In with big tall rings or adapters but the p.o.i and dot will only Intersect at that one point (say 40yds) and as distance changes, the dot and p.o.i. will move further and further away from each other and run out of elevation alot faster than something mounted down closer. So I might go with something smaller for the bandit, like a small dot sight, micro reflex sight or perhaps a pistol scope with cantilever, or as small adapters as possible.

This Is a solid and dependable red dot for dovetail with a nice fine dot but there's 2 small Issues I've had with this Dot sight. The first Is that there's no dust caps Included, but that's easily remedied. The second Issue Is, the windage, elevation adjustment seem to be backwards. Let me explain. So when swapping from one gun to another, I routinely have to re-sight. Well, on the windage adjustment, the marks are opposite of the Intended p.o.i. direction. For example, Im shooting and the point of Impact Is hitting to the right of Intended target. Well, naturally adjusting windage to "left", would start walking the p.o.i over to the left (by actually moving the dot to the right). On this Dot sight, adjusting windage to the "left" actually shifts the dot to the left, NOT the P.o.i., so that will only push your p.o.i. farther to the right. The scopes Ive used/own are setup so the marks move the p.o.i. In the Intended direction. Left moves it left, right goes right, up is up.

Good red dot and would buy again. Just took a little bit getting used to the different types of adjustment.

I got one on a Hat 135 .30cal tuned/filled to 160bar w/ 39fpe for 1600 cycles. Was on my .25cal Hat 155 for 400 cycles. Was on my Hat .22cal 135 for a 100 cycles. Still holds zero. Has a small dot too, but when you turn it past 5 it kinda turns into an oval, my eyes arent good so maybe thats it. Scope stop is a must on the Magnum Hats. I was so happy w/ it that I bought the Optima Open Reflex and a Optima Compact Scope. All holding strong. Cant just be all luck

If you feel a tingle in your trigger finger and you have a Vortex Hat, you could be using too heavy a pellet. It might handle it, but the optics dont like it. My .22 Hat 135 break forearms bolts when i go over 21g. I got 4 Hat 135'. One in .22 (fav pellets JSB 18g, its been rebuildt and pumped up too, makes over 35fpe) and .25 (its get'n rebuilt now, fav pellet AA25g), 2 QE 135' in .30cal (only 3 pellets available, cant go wrong) and a Torpedo 155 in .25cal (close to 10,000 cycles and works like new, this 1 will group chunks of gravel well, its a pellet whore).... and of course they all love the awesome PolyMags. Its not about not having enough power to push the heavy stuff, they got more than enough, its the stress it causes...Just say'n...happy shooting. I had Peep sites on all on account of eyes and gossip of them being scope killers. But as my eyes started get'n even worse i upgraded to glass. Havent had any problems. Im in love w/ the Vortex Ram, my springer days are over.

I like the value, metal casing, simple to use, fits my Diana Chaser with just the enough space for magazine. Easy on the eyes. Comes in original Hatsan box with extra battery .

Maybe add dust caps for the lens and sliding or adjustable clamp positions.

I was worried about the dovetail not fitting my pistol, but glad to say that it did fit my Chaser pistol. My sight came in Hatsan box but there is no cleaning cloth (no big deal), and no lens dust caps. It took me a while to adjust sight at 30 feet but got it dialed in. Why use a dot sight? It helps my old eyes sighting targets at 30 ft. It looks cool on my pistol and rifle.

It fits my Diana Chaser perfectly. For the 10m pistol range, it can be fine tuned exceptionally well due to the 0.5 MOA rating. The dot itself can be made tiny and provides an unobstructed view of the bullseye. Other red dots I own cover up the bullseye completely at 10m.

Give a senior citizen discount! Not really - I would change nothing!

Some reviewers say it DOES NOT fit an 11mm dovetail - maybe, but my experience is that it fits my Diana Chaser just fine, and I had it mounted in literally seconds. On an airgun with near zero recoil, this device is quite stable and I have no trouble holding zero.

Its size, weight, and overall functionality.

I'd like to see it fit an 11mm dovetail.

I have a Crosman P1377 with the steel beech upgrade. I've measured the dovetail mount on the gun at approximately 11mm wide. This scope will not fit despite its advertised claim that it does. It is just too large. I am now looking at the Hawke red dot sights advertised to fit 9 to 11mm gun rails.

I love it. I have this mounted on my Diana Chaser handgun in .177 cal. Easy to mount and easy to zero. I have no trouble keeping all shots in less than a 1" group at 35 yards. (From a rest of course). I don't know how this sight would hold up to the heavy recoil of a high powered rifle, but on my Diana it is doing great. Seems to be solidly built. The red dot is hard to pick up in the bright afternoon Florida sun even at the highest setting on white paper with a 1" Shoot-N-See dot. Switching to a darker paper made it easier to see.

Nothing at this time, but time will tell.

As a NRA Firearms Instructor, for the price, this is a great red dot sight if that's what you are looking for. With eyes of a 68 year old, a red dot is easier to aim than a front post and rear notch sight. I keep both eyes open.

It was the best deal price-wise for a red dot with the 11 mm dovetail mount. The mount was defective so I really can't give any performance grades.

I was disappointed that it didn't come with dust caps for each end.

I ended up returning mine as the mount was defective. I put the original sights back on my HW77k and will need to do further homework before trying to go to a red-dot again.

the site is inexpensive, reasonably compact for rifles, and mounted as it should.

The red dot is reasonably sharp-edged without halo or rays for a site of this price but shows a double image the dominant one to the lower right and the lesser overlapping one at 10 o'clock. This is not a deal breaker, but is unusual.

The elevation up arrow is ccw and consistent in moves per click. the windage (spelling?) is Left CW. This is incorrect. Adjusting impacts to the left requires a ccw rotation of the sight adjustment. Once figured out, all went well and the scope holds very well at all light intensity levels.

Easy to adjust, dot size adjustment, good solid construction, comes with two batteries, one in it and an extra, did what needed for what I paid.

At least have it in a Hatsan branded box.

Over all it is a nice item. It is my first red dot and third add on sight all together and so far the best. It's nice it comes with two batteries. I am using it on a Diana Chaser and the back mount is only about half way on the Chasers dovetail rail. It seems to be holding on fine. Dot size adjustment seems spot on and I was using the 11setting pretty much the whole time, this may change as I get used to it. My least favorite thing and it has nothing to do with the item itself is the packaging. It is pretty cheap. Ships in a Black cardboard box with RIFLE SCOPE on the side and has two bar code stickers that do say Hatsan. Leaves me to believe this is the same item as a cheaper China made red dot and Hatsan just puts their bar code sticker on it and charges a little more. Over all good for the price and I am happy. Happy Shooting and Always Be Safe.

Adjustable red dot size. Fits perfect on my Beeman P17. Deadly accurate. Those targets don't have a chance. Lol Great price. Works exactly as I had hoped.

Nothing

Affordable, easy to install and use. Haven't used outside yet, but in indoor lighting it's fantastic. Also worked awesome on my Crosman 1077.

This scope was mounted on a new Benjamin Marauder pistol. The one-MOA red dot is great for highly accurate aiming. The quality of the scope is about what one would expect for the price, which is adequate.

The usability of the scope in bright sunlight is zero. I live in the mountains in Colorado, and the intensity of the sun here is off the charts. After sighting the scope in, the sun completely washed out the red dot. I thought the scope had failed until I took in the house and saw that the red dot was on. Even set on the highest brightness, the red dot is too dark and too small to be a viable outdoor scope. IF I were using the pistol in an indoor range, this would be a perfect scope. After one day, I have taken the scope off and ordered a different one, which hopefully will be much brighter.

Not for use in most outdoor environments! Red dot would have to be much more intense, and larger to be of any use outdoors.

Well built & excellent quality. Nothing was mentioned about the tiny dot, which would be a great selling point, IMO. This is about a 2 MOA dot, which works better at distance. A 5 MOA dot tends to obscure too much of a target at greater distances. The rheostat with continuously variable brightness control is a bonus.

Actually include the lens cleaning cloth, since it was on the parts list, but not included in the box

The Hatsan 25 has a factory dovetail to mount this sight and it fits perfectly. Easy to adjust and bright the point of impact to center. Comes with a battery and a spare battery. Brightness of the red dot is adjustable for either low light or bright sunshine and it works well.

Better instructions from the factory. The owner's "manual" is beyond basic.

If you look very carefully at the adjustment screws, you will see which direction to turn them to move the impact on center. I had to use a magnifying glass to read them but my old eyes do not see as well as a younger person will. You do not have to remove the rear sight to use the red dot. The front sight is visible when you look thru the sight but you can leave it in place and ignore it. It appears that a single screw holds the front sight in place but I have not tried to remove it, yet.

Came free with my Hatsan Mod 25 Supertact .177 Works and holds zero (~150 shots so far) Makes casual plinking (20 yards) easy

not have "made in china" engraved in the metal on the right side of the sight dot might be a little large, even on "1" setting, but I don't think anyone will use this to hit <2" targets past 20 yards offhand

you get what you pay for, but for the price of free, it's pretty good. when done zeroing, take care when screwing back on the protective caps. I lost my zero because I tightened the caps too quickly and the bottom of the cap had enough friction to change the zero (easy fix though). When you screw them back on, do so lightly and just enough so they don't fall off.

well not much i mean it seams nicely constructed but will not mount correctly to any of my gun except my hatsan 25cal the dioed is bright

the mounts and my scope had no cleaning pad in the box

I Am Going to mount and let you know if it even works