{"id":10325,"date":"2023-03-03T20:23:31","date_gmt":"2023-03-04T01:23:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/?p=10325"},"modified":"2023-12-01T18:44:42","modified_gmt":"2023-12-01T23:44:42","slug":"the-incredible-hatsan-blitz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/the-incredible-hatsan-blitz\/","title":{"rendered":"The incredible Hatsan Blitz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So my brother had one of these little beauties delivered yesterday and walked it over to my place next door, where we went out on the back deck to chaw up various pieces of leftover wood. Results? <em>Impressive<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/C-BnfLmjgJo\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p>As my friend Don is working this bad machine, note the chunks of wood flying off the target plywood. Said plywood is being propped up by a length of 4&#215;4 behind, which my brother then proceeded to split in half, right down the center, with only a few well-placed rounds. Very little noise, same-same for felt recoil, pellets are el cheapo, completely street-legal and unregulated, since it\u2019s not classified as a firearm, because\u2026well, because it <em>isn\u2019t <\/em>a firearm<em>,<\/em>\u00a0actually\u2014I ask you, what\u2019s not to like here?<\/p>\n<p>Yep, I envision deriving mucho backyard-shooting range enjoyment from the Blitz in the days to come. The muzzle velocity, and therefore effective range, drops slightly as the air-tank is depleted, but refilling it is a total breeze, and can be done quite easily by hand if you don\u2019t own a compressor.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/hatsanairgunsusa.com\/product\/blitz\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hatsan Blitz<\/a> airgun comes in various flavors, including .22, .30, and .50 cal (!!!) versions. Full auto, natch; as I&#8217;ve long insisted, you haven&#8217;t really flown until you&#8217;ve flown an open-cockpit biplane, you haven&#8217;t really ridden until you&#8217;ve ridden a Harley, and you haven&#8217;t really shot until you&#8217;ve shot full auto. Jeff got two 16-round magazines with it, but there are also 30-rounders available. Lots of vids of fun and destruction on YewToob, too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So my brother had one of these little beauties delivered yesterday and walked it over to my place next door, where we went out on the back deck to chaw up various pieces of leftover wood. Results? Impressive. As my friend Don is working this&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"easywp-readmore\"><a class=\"read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/the-incredible-hatsan-blitz\/\">Would you like to know more?<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  The incredible Hatsan Blitz<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,20,48,61,79,100],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-believe-it-or-else","category-brilliant","category-flotsam-andor-jetsam","category-hmmm","category-muahahahaha","category-tales-of-the-gun","wpcat-16-id","wpcat-20-id","wpcat-48-id","wpcat-61-id","wpcat-79-id","wpcat-100-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10325"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10325\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15708,"href":"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10325\/revisions\/15708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}