Hatsan Torpedo 105X Vortex

Received my Torpedo .25 today! new, clean, and wrapped in plastic ! nice looking rifle. cleaned the barrel, and checked all the functions out! used a one piece dove to mount my hammers 3-9x32 scope. lubed pivot points, bore sighted, and shot from 10 yards using H&N barracuda 31.02, seems to like them. very power full, and shoots good. good addition to my collection. love guns!!

Pros
nice rifle, shoots great, and very powerful love it!! thanks Air-gun Depot crew !!

Cons
cocking lock spring isn't strong enough against recoil, and comes loose!

Its a g a little hevy but i dont see nothing wrong with that,i like it ,powerful so if you looking for good rifle at afordable price this is the one.

Pros
Good quality rifle ,very acurate ,

Cons
The bolt action and reloading its kinda not my favorite, but as you can see its either accuracy, or this

Minor flaw began to irritate me . After 200 or so shots underlever began to fall out in shooting. More and more till almost every shot, so I removed blade and spring holding lever. Took spring to local hardware store and found a heavier one. 25 cents later i'm back in business, lever snaps in tight, accuracy dead on.

Pros
Almost everything.

Cons
Hatsan should shoot their own guns, they would have found this problem before us. Makes me worry about my next purchase from this manufacturer.

Took 100 shots to break in, now very smooth cocking and shooting. Was pretty accurate with sights now very accurate with my best scope. Short cocking arm makes great exercise, also fine for long distance hunting shots.....

Pros
Quiet cocking for hunting, accuracy. ....

Cons
Nothing....

Just got my new 105X in .25,cal. and am impressed. The gun feels good in my hands not too heavy and with a nice trigger pull right out of the box. Took it out and shoot it about 50 times to get the scope sighted in. Sighted in fairly quickly not through the same hole but getting into about a two inch group. As expected after only 50 rounds. Cocking was relatively easy for a .25 cal and recoil was mild. Very satisfied will review the scope under the scopes area. The scope was a free plus with the purchase of the rifle.

Pros
Easy cocking, good trigger and lots of power.

Cons
If anything the weight and the tripod was minimally useful.

The Hatsan Torpedo has an impressive resume, a list of collective features that have the potential to create great air rifle performance.

On its first shot, my sample recoil-dropped its under lever cocking device out of battery and behaved similarly on every subsequent shot. As a result, each snap down lever shot was pulled drastically low, and no amount of scope elevation correction could remedy the situation.

Yes, it’s a torpedo al right. It will destroy any chance of acceptable accuracy instantly and will blow any hopes you have relating to owning a reliable and competent air rifle completely out of the water. After one brief range session, I wrote it off as defective and returned it to the seller. Good riddance!

Pros
Tru Glo fiber optic front an rear sighting; Quattro trigger adjustable for pull weight and travel; Vortex gas piston eliminates spring oscillation and noise; built in recoil system

Cons
This is a well thought out bumblebee on paper. Unfortunately, my sample didn't fly at all. A substantial product defect made accuracy and performance testing impossible, Bad sample?...don't know; .don't care. Glad to be rid of it! It's gargantuan size also makes it a good candidate for a boat anchor!!

Airgundepot.com shipped and delivered promptly, fine service! Great packaging, instructions and accessories. I cleaned barrel, used iron sights for 1st 75 shots to settle in bore, cleaned again and mounted scope. It was also from airgundepot (UTG 3-9 x40 varmint/predator, an outstanding value for its price). After mounting and coarse adjustments, shot another 50 rounds to finalize settling in bore. Using exact reload, hold and shot replication techniques, zeroing scope was easy and pellet group results were amazing. See photo included. Pellets were also from airgundepot (H&N Sport, Baracuda Match and Baracuda Hunter Extreme, also a great value for its price). If you desire a fine shooter at mid range cost, I expect you'll search a long time to best this model.

Pros
Not difficult to cock, load or shoot. Weight is optimally balanced for steady off hand shooting positions. Trigger is adjustable, although I found it quite usable as delivered and made no changes. This is a full size rifle, for full size people... Perhaps not ideal for pre-teen beginners. While not sound suppressed, it is not offensively loud. Clearly far quieter than a 22 rim fire while delivering a .22 cal pellet at speeds sufficient to easily punch through my .177 cal pellet trap (24 ga steel). Greater power than this seems wasted on rabbits as pass through shots would be likely and less than ideal. Blueing on this model is top shelf quality, really pretty.

Cons
Butt stock pad is thicker than needed which increases pull length on an already long gun. Some sound suppression would be welcome too. Brass knob on bolt lever keeps unscrewing... Easily remedied with a dab of loctite.