Well I finally conquered my anxiety about tearing my new Hatsan At44 177 down. I had been trying my best to ignore the crunchy grinding sound each time I pulled on the cocking lever. I thought it's new and just needs to be broken in. Well after about a thousand shots and still crunchy bunches of oats. But it's new still under warranty and I'm not very knowledgeable about the internals of pcp. I DON'T WANT TO RUIN MY GUN! Oh well here goes nothing. Did my online research and found other people doing similar projects but with different platforms but getting a feel for what I would find and then how to correct the issues. Should have taken photos and probably would have saved myself a lot of time. Any way I broke it down and cleaned polished and deburred it put it back together. Problem is that it is not working. %$@#* Break it down again look for the problem. Don't find anything. Study the schematic nothing stands out. Back together again but not as complete as the first time. Still not WORKING. AHHH I knew I should have just left well enough alone. Well that ship has sailed and I can't unring this bell. I'm going back in and I'm not going to let this mechanical dilemma conquer me. It has got to be something so dumb that I must be looking at it wrong. So I start seeing what exactly is going on with why it's not working. The cocking arm seems jammed up on something. No it's the hammer getting jammed. Why is the hammer getting jammed? Oh because I reinstalled the hammer upside down. It wasn't able to clear the cocking lever. Dumb dumb dumb dummy. Anyway 3rd time is the charm. Back together tested and it works. Praise the Lord.
And, drum roll please
, no more crunchy. Smooth cocking and I think possibly more accurate. I'll have to do more testing after these torrential rains let up. I'm so happy to still have a shooting rifle instead of an 11lbs paper weight.
So I hope some of you that read this are getting a little chuckle on the misadventures of a newb. But I also hope that others will find this post to be the motivation that they need to tackle a problem that seems to difficult to do. Sometimes you may find that the things you think you can't do are things you can't do because you never tried to do them. One good thing about 3 break downs and 3 reassemblies I have loads of confidence for the next time I need to get down into it's guts.
Thanks for reading.
Airgunutty
And, drum roll please

So I hope some of you that read this are getting a little chuckle on the misadventures of a newb. But I also hope that others will find this post to be the motivation that they need to tackle a problem that seems to difficult to do. Sometimes you may find that the things you think you can't do are things you can't do because you never tried to do them. One good thing about 3 break downs and 3 reassemblies I have loads of confidence for the next time I need to get down into it's guts.
Thanks for reading.
Airgunutty