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With ammo being scarce and expensive these days I decided on a whim to buy a spring piston air rifle on a whim at bass pro about 6 weeks ago. I bought a stoeger s3000c break barrel .177 at Bass Pro for $89.00. I decided I wanted to try shooting squirrels in my back yard. It said 810 fps on the box and figured that would be plenty, I discovered that number assumed you were using the super light alloy pellets. With the commonly available lead pellets I'm probably getting less than 700. I have managed to kill 6 squirrels with it mostly head shots between 5 and 15 yards. It's a pretty nice shooting gun just a little light on power.

Yesterday I received my second springier, a Hatsan 95 in .22. I've only put about 20 shot through it in my basement but I think I'm going to like it. This will give more thump for body shots and give me range enough to give a squirrel at any range in my yard a bad day.

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The 95 is a nice entry level gun and the QE version I had, with something in the 14-16gr pellet range was shooting around the 750 fps mark. From owning a few, seriously consider a better air gun rated scope. The Optimas that come with Hatsan's guns tend to not live very long on them. I only ever mounted one and on a break barrel with less power than the 95 and blew it out in less than 500 shots.

Hatsan's fps numbers are usually pretty close to what they advertise too since, although they use the lightest weight lead pellets, use real lead pellets to get their numbers.
 
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Congrats. Whatever you do don't look at an hw95, and definitely don't buy one, otherwise you will throw all the other springers away.
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Nah...lol. Have an HW95 .22, Beeman R9 .20, an R7 .20 (6-7 fpe and easily smacks squirrels out to 20 yards) and a couple D34's and I still shoot my other springers and that includes a Hatty 95 .25 cal that was my first getting back into shooting and I still have.
 
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I have a Hatsan 95 and I really like it. It shoots great for me. I can't say I like the trigger that much but I still get great groups at 25 to 35 yards. I use a scope cause my old eyes have a few problems.

Enjoy your rifle. I have noticed that on this site we don't talk about cheap good guns. If one buys a 100 dollar gun and likes it all the suggestions are for rifles that cost several hundred more. 

God bless

Bobby
 
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I have a Hatsan 95 and I really like it. It shoots great for me. I can't say I like the trigger that much but I still get great groups at 25 to 35 yards. I use a scope cause my old eyes have a few problems.

Enjoy your rifle. I have noticed that on this site we don't talk about cheap good guns. If one buys a 100 dollar gun and likes it all the suggestions are for rifles that cost several hundred more. 

God bless

Bobby
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Nailed it, brother. 🙏ᕦ(ò_óˇ)ᕤ
 
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I own half a dozen rifles with the Quattro trigger and while it will never equal my Rekords or T06, it's just a matter of getting used to the pull. 

Most rifles have a straight back pull, the Quattro actually pulls back and up. I normally have my thumb straight up and down from the safety so when I pull, I just picture myself squeezing my thumb and trigger finger together. Another easy way is to let the bottom edge of your trigger finger rest inside the trigger guard and use it as a guide for your finger.

Look up Mike Ellingsworth on YouTube. He's got any number of videos on Hatsan rifles and I believe one of those is how to adjust that trigger to be better.

Bobby, +2 on what you said. I own serious cheap like in $50 cheap to high end springers and enjoy shooting them all, no matter what I paid for them :)
 
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