Hatsan 135 QE Vortex Reviews

Hard To Cock!!!! But what a hard hitting break barrel in .30 cal! Some folks don't like the sights, but I find them to be very accurate, and easy to get sight alignment with. I have a ground squirrel problem, and 2 scoped break barrel rifles, but this open sight .30 hits them on the run! I love the simplicity of break barrel rifles, I did not want to buy all the stuff that goes with pop guns.

Better noise reduction baffles, if they don't reduce velocity.

Due to hard cocking, be prepared to cock rifle differently than what you may be doing now! You may need both hands to cock this beast!

Hard hitting beast.

awesome in .30. Breaks in nicely after 200 rnds or so. Accurate and powerful to 40 yds. Diabolo exacts are its favorite pellet. Takes effort to cock, be prepared. Only complaint is cheap plastic sights. Everything else composed of heavy steel and nice stock cheek rest is decennt

Plastic iron sights

Effort cocking. Powerful and accurate to 40 yds. Definitely louder than a regular pellet gun but not bad.

Great walnut stock, built like a tank with great accuracy.

Weight, she's a heavy piece!

I've had my rifle for three years which was a Christmas gift from my folks. Having plenty of time on the rig I can say it's a very nice springer for the price. I've never been let down with the accuracy and punch it delivers. Recoil is hefty and as with such I've never scoped, irons only. Even with irons out to 20 yards I've never had an issue utterly obliterating starlings. IT PACKS A PUNCH!

Pyramyd's staff have great knowledge of the gun {I like your staff!} - but they should let customers know upfront Hatsun's USA customer service is a nightmare.

Hatsun's USA customer service. You will suffer if you need parts or any repairs - as Hatsun USA DOES NOT answer their "customer service" phone and does not respond to phone messages and takes days and days to reply to a simple email request, even with their 'form' filled out. After being ignored by Hatsun, I bought another brand from Pyramyd.

Hefty and beautiful, this gun has plenty of down range slam. It is so fun to shoot that I feel like a kid when I have it out for some plinking. I have the .25 caliber which combines a lively velocity with a healthy mass of lead. The fiber-optic sights are easy to see and give me excellent indication of the impact point. Needless to say, I am more than a little happy to own this gun.

Nothing!

I am a small, senior citizen and find the cocking effort to be strong but well within my capacity.

So far it's great. Accurate, well made, nice finish. The wood stock is nice.

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A lot of practical features for a low price. It's got a built in shroud, 3 way adjustable trigger, adjustable comb and pad and a combination Weaver/11mm scope rail. It's the most powerful springer you can buy. I bought mine about 6 years ago and I fired it over the chrony a couple weeks ago and got velocities averaging right around 550 fps with 44.75 JSB Exacts or right around 30 fpe. It's also surprisingly "un-hold sensitive" for such a powerful spring gun. I used to own a Beeman Kodiak and that was much more difficult to shoot accurately.

The screws that Hatsan uses are of low quality. I've had the Phillips slots simply break off when disassembling it. While the Quattro trigger isn't bad, it's no Rekord either. If you wiggle it you'll notice it's got a lot of slop and appears to be made out of pot metal. You can adjust it to get a pretty good trigger pull, but it's not a high quality trigger.

I've seen people online praising the beautiful Turkish walnut stock, which only makes me feel they've never actually seen a nice piece of wood. The stock is actually quite good, but it's not beautiful. If there's any grain or pattern to the wood you'd never know since it's covered up by some sort of dark stain/shellac like you'd find on a cheap Chinese gun. Having said that however it does have nice checkering and a adjustable comb and pad. It's a very good, practical stock, but it's not pretty.

Cocking effort is very heavy. I'm a big guy and used to bench over 300 lbs when I was younger, so it's not a problem for me, but I'm guessing that a lot of women and teens would be unable to cock this rifle. It's also a big, heavy rifle. Scoped, I'm guessing it's 10+ lbs. It's not a light, handy little carbine.

Overall, this is a rifle that was built to a price point, but it was designed extremely well for that price point and I'd buy it again.

Factory corrected rail, my dovetail/Weaver mount is inline with barrel! Nicely finished both metal & wood. Cleaned barrel, VERY DIRTY!!! Rifle shoots 1" groups at 25 yards with fiber optic sights. Heavy rifle but balanced, weight softens recoil somewhat. Fiber optic sight really lights up in very little light, making it a good rifle to shoot early morning or late evening. I will use these sights as I have a coyote problem, and they never stop moving for a good scope shot. With the open sights I can follow their movement on either side of barrel. QE baffles do help in noise abatement, but I chose another option which was better for me. Simple "drop in" replacement that reduced noise level another 5db.

A better scope mount. Picatinny instead of Weaver, back towards shooters eye more, and scope stop holes in rail!!! Better baffle system although I understand the "One size fits all" approach of a company. QE barrel shrouds are on a lot of Hatsan's, PCP as well as break barrel. Not a fan of automatic safety's, but considering how hard this gun is to cock, maybe a good thing?

I am shooting JSB EXACT .30 Diabolo 44.75gr pellets. Currently I see a 6" drop between 19 yards and 25 yards! I am shooting offhand with an arm supported by a doorway. Will get the Chrony out in a day or so & see what I'm getting in FPS. I set it up to shoot 1" high at 20 yards (like my .25 break barrel), expecting it to be dead on at 25 yards. 6" difference is hard to compensate for in any sight! When Spring finally decides to show up here, I will sandbag shoot the rifle 20, 25, 40, and 100 yards to get some ballistic info.

I liked the wood furniture and overall look of the gun but with both the gun I got there were a fair amount of blemishes on the metal finish. I had problems with the first one I got with the shroud not being centered over the barrel and the second one having the shroud nut glued in upside down so I couldn't take the shroud off to check the barrel so I ended up refunding it. Couldn't say much about the accuracy since the first one shotgunned from the shroud problem and I never even fired the second one. For the price it seems like a good deal if you can wait in replacement limbo to get a good one that slipped through hatsan qa.

Better qa on hatsans end all things considered. hearing from others in forums they've started cutting corners on a lot of things as the internals in my guns could not compare to the quality I saw in older runs of the gun, I've heard hatsans pcp are still top notch for the price though they've just steered away from springers. Nothing to do with pyramyd they seem to value customers quite a bit and gave me no trouble in my replacing and eventual refund.

Pyramyd air is fantastic to buy from and helped me through all my problems even though I ended up refunding. Still ended up buying other guns, parts, and ammo and it's been great on all other accounts.