Hatsan Escort Semi Auto

[Rude Fat Dog]

I picked up a Hatsan Escort at a very good price and have converted it to a 7 + 1. It has only been used a couple of times and apart from the new spring binding on the first loading everything seems OK. A number of people that I have spoken with have stated that they wouldn't touch one with a barge pole ! I would be interested to receive some feed back.
Many thanks.

GG

[Mike357]

Greg, I think there would be a good market for a reliable and inexpensive Sect 1 SG for PSG. Cheap builds off Remingtons etc are possible but the Hatsan MPA would be an interesting proposition if it was reliable. Can't argue with the price anyway.

Lantac are importing the Mossberg JM930 but it is £850 then you are getting close to Benelli territory.

[Ovenpaa]

Has Dangermouse got a Hatsan Escort? If it is indeed one of these he seems very happy with it.

[Rude Fat Dog]

Greg, I think there would be a good market for a reliable and inexpensive Sect 1 SG for PSG. Cheap builds off Remingtons etc are possible but the Hatsan MPA would be an interesting proposition if it was reliable. Can't argue with the price anyway.

Lantac are importing the Mossberg JM930 but it is £850 then you are getting close to Benelli territory.

Thanks Mike - I've been looking at the MPA and I am tempted to get one and see just how good they are - they appear to have a fixed choke. My wife likes the look of the Marine version shown on Edgar's website - this would be great fun to customise ! She has also said that she wants a 9+1 (No pleasing some people :roll: )

[saddler]

Hatsan MPA's - the Turkish ginger step child copies of the Benelli M4

Harsh? NOPE

Seen their "new" adjustable stocks for them yet?


Benelli M1014


IF you want a good solid S1 gun get a cheap used Browning Auto 5, replace the friction ring parts with new ones & fit a Nordic magazine to it

Good enough for the British Army to use for several decades!! (L32A1)

I refuse to own ANY Turkish gun on principle!
a. they are Turkish
b. they build to a price margin, not to a quality specification

The UK market is already flooded with very good reliable S.1 shotguns that could very easily be rigged up for PSG & target, etc.
Give one of them a good home - the RFD will make more of a %age on the parts & accessories anyway than on a new gun

[Sim G]

A number of people that I have spoken with have stated that they wouldn't touch one with a barge pole !

I think it's fair to say that doesn't reflect my position!

I have a Hatsan semi in 20 bore. It's been an outstanding gun. Had a couple of thousand rounds through it since the last clean and I don't ever remember a stoppage with it. It's not my only semi gun, I also have a Benelli M2, so I can compare the "top end" with the little Hatsan.

As far as the fat hamsters affliation with the A5, it's because they share a similar trait........ hump backed! bigteeth

[Steve]

I have one and although it isnt as pretty as a Beretta or a Benelli-it shoots straight,cost me about £280 brand new a few years ago and cycles cartridges effortlessly. This is the shotgun i cleaned recently...for the first time in around 18 months.

[Rude Fat Dog]

I have to say that having stripped the Hatsan down there was nothing in the engineering that jumped out at being too horrible. Although, from memory, I think the screw that holds the spring for the 'single shot' button was a 'slot head' and I consider that this should have been a socket head.
Around 18 months ago I did spend a fortune on bringing in from Turkey, with view to distributing the product, another firearm, from a different manufacturer, which was probably the worst bit of engineering that I have ever seen on a firearm !
To be fair all round, the Pietta .44 NMA S.S. Black Powder revolver that I purchased a few years ago new, needed to be stripped down and it took me ages just to get rid of the burrs that had been left on from the manufacturing. I must also say the same about the .44 Marlin S.S. purchased around two years ago. With some TLC and 'tuning' both guns are now very sweet. It seems that half the fun with firearms (to me anyway) is to strip them down and see how they can be made better !

[phaedra1106]

Bought my first Hatsan Semi in 2007, still have it and it's used every time we shoot clay pigeon, had almost 7000 rounds through it and apart from not liking the shorter 65mm shells (ie Hull Comp X) it cycles everything thrown at it. The problem with the Comp-X is they are around 1.6 to 2mm shorter than most 65mm carts and if you put 2 in the mag they both come out together when cycled. It shoots Eley 65mm no problem.

Same goes for the second "fast load system" version I bought as a spare after being told how unreliable the early model was, the spare sat in the cabinet for almost 3 years so I sold it.

I also have a Silver Select O/U and again it's a very nice gun, tight action and hits what I point it at.

And just to round it off I bought the MPA semi shown above for PSG, only used it once so far but great fun and a bargain for a 7+1 at £430 new with a 3yr guarantee!.

[Dangermouse]

I can't remember when I bought mine but it was one of the early ones at £200 new. Probably priced to get them moving.
I put some tru glow style sights on the rail as I do almost all my shooting with slug and they have been a worthy addition, but I now use a pistol scope making use of the standard dove tail rail.
A conversation with someone who had a pistol grip stock and did not like it, saw us changing my original straight one over and we both walked away happy 10 Min's later.
Also purchased an extended tube so it can now take 10+1 but to be honest it only needs 6 for the courses of fire I shoot.

I found the access to the loading gate a little small on my early model, so took the dremmel to it and managed to chop around half an inch of plastic away from the front of the trigger assembly. This let me get my thumb behind the shells as I pushed them in.

I did have a trigger assembly fail but after digging around on the net I had to decide that I was responsible. I had tried to lighten the trigger and must have taken too much of something. A replacement unit cost around £40, and has yet to be tried.

At the time of getting it was a bargain, even now at the current prices I would happily look at them again, especially as they now have an improved loading gate,


Note: The full bore UK hoody improves the lines of any gun and scores immeasurably!


DM