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Has anyone ever shot or for that matter heard of Hatfield shotguns?
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Never heard of them. What's the interweb say about them?
Here's a link to their writeup:
https://www.americanrifleman.org/articles/2018/3/22/tested-hatfield-sas-shotgun/
Bottom line - oil it, shoot a couple of boxes of ammo through it to break it in and it worked just fine.
I heard that Hatfields were the real McCoy :-)
I found this too, along with several large chunks of metal. They were all stuck in lapping compound. The factory basically machined it, slapped in some cutting compound to create some tolerances, threw it together and shipped it.I should note that I found a ton of small machine metal flakes around the bolt and the hole for the firing pin. Clean all that crud out too.
So this gun still won't cycle the Fiocchi ammo I bought at all. It won't load the next round properly. However, it just ran flawlessly with Winchester AA, so I guess I'll be buying more of that.BUMP. I just got one of these in 28ga. I mainly got it to mess around with and to see just how bad it was. So, the good: It looks good enough, and the wood is pretty for a $230 gun. And it is simple.
The bad:
I found this too, along with several large chunks of metal. They were all stuck in lapping compound. The factory basically machined it, slapped in some cutting compound to create some tolerances, threw it together and shipped it.
The raised rail is curved. It has a noticeable bend to the right as it goes down the barrel. I missed this when checking it out in the store, otherwise I wouldn't have bought it. It appears that the barrel is straight, but I haven't thoroughly investigated that yet. The rail also has a checkered pattern on the top to minimize glare, and it is incomplete towards the front sight.
I only have a half box of ammo through it, but it has failed every time to cycle the next round. Each one gets hung up at the throat, and every other round stovepipes. I've polished the throat a bit to help, and when I get some more rounds through it, hopefully it will get better.
Anyways, it's about what I expected for a sub $250 auto loader.