The new Red Ryder arrived! (Hatsan Flash QE .177)
It came box-in-box. So, yea that! The outer box was a bit "scuffed" from handling, sorting, etc., but, otherwise, in great shape, with no overt abuse noted.
I'll save the images of a cardboard box, and start with the contents.
The rifle was new in box, in a sealed plastic sleeve.
The rifle itself was in a sealed plastic sleeve:
The accessories were in the box; clips, fill probe, single load tray, o-rings, etc. in small white box:
It came peaked at 2k.psi:
Rifle and critical accessories; fill probe clips single load tray:
Scope mounted, and ready for a sight-in.
This is the Winchester Daisy scope that I got for the Crosman. It is a really nice scope for bargain basement pricing. It is 2x-7x mag, and Adjustable Objective, with airgun parallax ranging.
In getting it sighted,...
I seem to attract issues with barrels, it seems.
The scope was brought to a hard left setting, maxed out left. At that point, I was near center, but, things seemed erratic, and bouncing around. I learned from the Beeman that scopes do not like to play at the extreme outskirts of their settings; they play much nicer near the center of the ranging.
So, I went back in, and grabbed some thin shim stock, reversed the scope mounts, and applied the thin shims to the left side of the mount rail/scope rings
* This shimming brought me from near center on a 9" paper plate target, and, brought me to the left outside ring of the plate, where it becomes the rim. This was a good 3.5" of left attitude shift, and now I could bring it back to the right, or towards center of the scope setting range.
I was running low on air at this point, but, managed a 5 shot string that was about the size of a nickel, with a sub-group of three that shared the same center hole, in a three leaf clover shape.
I was now out of functional air pressure, and, because I made a dumb assumption, I am stuck this way. I thought I had the right part needed to adapt the supplied fill probe to my hand pump. WRONG.
So, this afternoon, I ordered the correct adaptor, and am going to have to wait till next wednesday to get filled with air.
The gun is light, even with the scope. Not as light as the Crosman, but, still light. It does feel a bit chincy in the forearm, where it is hollow plastic. But, from the receiver, rearward, it is solid plastic, and feels much more stout. The forearm sounds hollow, but, does not flex when squeezed hard. It is a good place to save weight, so,..
I'm less than thrilled by needing to apply shims to the scope mounts to get to a better zero, but, that is not a deal breaker. I shimmed with some thin brass sheet cut into skinny strips, and already had them at hand from the Beeman. So, that issue has been rectified. When I get a chance to refill, I'll check to see if they're necessary (shims), or, if reversing the sides of the scope rail mount clamps was enough.
For now, I wait out my blunder in needing to get an adaptor for my fill probe so that I can blast more paper.
* This is a great example of what I had to do in shimming, but, you'll need to think in 180º reverse of this image for the final result of what it took to draw further left. What this image shows would result in drawing further right (if looking from rear of barrel); I needed to go more left:
I had orignally set the scope mounts with the screws on the side shown in the image, on the left. This makes the mount strong/firm on the side without the jaw clamp. To counter my pulling to the right right (or not being able to go more left), I reversed the screw-clamp side to be on the right, and, shimmed to the left of the dovetail (opposite of what is shown in the image). This forced the scope to stay more left, as the screw-clamp drew down tension. It worked.