{"id":4653,"date":"2018-11-19T09:00:43","date_gmt":"2018-11-19T16:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.airgunsofarizona.com\/blog\/?p=4653"},"modified":"2018-11-18T23:18:40","modified_gmt":"2018-11-19T06:18:40","slug":"hatsan-vortex-speedfire-in-177","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.airgunsofarizona.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/hatsan-vortex-speedfire-in-177.html","title":{"rendered":"Hatsan Vortex SpeedFire in .177"},"content":{"rendered":"

Springer air rifles can be very accurate and versatile for uses ranging from plinking to hunting.\u00a0 However, loading pellets singly for each shot can be a bit of a fumble-finger exercise, especially when needing to make a follow-up shot on a wounded animal.\u00a0 The Turkish company of Hatsan offers their solution as the new SpeedFire Vortex, a multi-shot break-barrel utilizing a 12-shot rotary magazine in .177 caliber. The mechanism used to automatically load a pellet during the cocking cycle is called the EZ-Load Action System.\u00a0 It sits above the barrel\/receiver joint, adding enough extra height to force the use of a high front sight.\u00a0 The front sight consists of a U-shaped saddle with a bright orange TruGlo fiber optic rod in the center.\u00a0 When optics are used, or to protect the front sight when it is not in use, it folds down into a protective channel.\u00a0 The rear sight has green TruGlo fiber optics to help with obtaining a quick sight picture and it is micro adjustable for both windage and elevation.\u00a0 The SpeedFire also comes equipped with a picatinny rail, which interestingly incorporates an 11mm rail running along the top.\u00a0 The rail features a dampener technology designed to absorb some of the shock generated by springers, helping to protect optics mounted to the rifle.\u00a0 Additionally, the SpeedFire ships with an Optima 3-9x40mm scope and rings.<\/p>\n

I found the SpeedFire to be a soft shooter for a springer, no doubt partially because of the proprietary SaS, or Shock Absorber System, built into the gun.\u00a0 However, the cocking force is such that this would not be a rifle for a youngster.\u00a0 Having twelve pellets at the ready is a great feature but can be a workout when firing all twelve pellets quickly from the Rapid Performance Magazine (RPM).\u00a0 An automatic safety\/anti bear-trap mechanism activates each time you cock the SpeedFire, but unfortunately this multi-shot technology does not protect from double loading pellets if there is an attempt to cock the gun a second time.\u00a0 If you experience this condition, then you must remove the magazine and gently push both pellets out with a cleaning rod.\u00a0 The Owner\u2019s Manual does not go into any detail on how to safely remove pellets from the barrel, which would be helpful, since the multi-shot mechanism covers the breech during the cocking cycle in its process of automatically loading a pellet.<\/p>\n

Hatsan technologies such as the Quattro adjustable match trigger, Vortex Gas Piston, and SaS are all built in to this rifle.\u00a0 It also sports some suppression, although it is not the \u201cQuiet Energy\u201d suppression found on other Hatsan guns.\u00a0 It is lightweight at almost 6 \u00bd pounds without a scope, but it is a long gun at 47 inches.\u00a0 Trigger pull out of the box was about 5 \u00bd pounds and is fully adjustable with the included allen wrenches.\u00a0 My sample rifle shipped without a scope and I haven\u2019t had it long enough to fully break it in.\u00a0 It still produced good groups out of the box even though I was using open sights with aged eyes.\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Hatsan rates the velocity of the SpeedFire out of its 14.5-inch barrel at 1000fps and it lists at an MSRP of $199.99.\u00a0 The warranty on the SpeedFire is a one year limited. \u00a0\u00a0It is also available in .22 caliber and if you\u2019d like more information, please contact our friends at Airguns of Arizona<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Springer air rifles can be very accurate and versatile for uses ranging from plinking to hunting.\u00a0 However, loading pellets singly for each shot can be a bit of a fumble-finger exercise, especially when needing to make a follow-up shot on a wounded animal.\u00a0 The Turkish company of Hatsan offers their solution as the new SpeedFire…»<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.airgunsofarizona.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4653"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.airgunsofarizona.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.airgunsofarizona.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.airgunsofarizona.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.airgunsofarizona.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4653"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.airgunsofarizona.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4653\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4664,"href":"https:\/\/www.airgunsofarizona.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4653\/revisions\/4664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.airgunsofarizona.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.airgunsofarizona.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.airgunsofarizona.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}