Question about Hatsan arms Escort shotguns

[ctcboy]

We have just brough a couple of Hatsan Escort shotguns in at work to sell. I'm wondering if anybody here has any experience with these shotguns. They appear to be of reasonable quality but they cost about half what a comparable remington or mossberg would. Wich of course makes me a little nervous about their quality.
Here's a link to their web site
www.hatsan.com.tr/escort_aimguard.asp

[Durandal]

Hmmm, never heard of them till now.

Not that that means anything. There are LOTS of small firearms companies. This is one of them.

I would shoot a [b/Turkish[/b] shotgun before I bought one. Then take it to a gun smith if you do not feel confident about it.

What are they selling for?

[soma]

Stick with what you know.

[ctcboy]

I believe that we will be selling them for around $350.00-399.00 canadian. Which is roughly $0.25 U.S. ;)
By comparison we sell a brand new Mossberg 500 with speed feed stock and ghost ring sights for $630.00 cdn.
So price wise I would think it would be tempting to buy one of these escorts. Which is of course why we brought them in in the first place.

[Tributal]

http://www.hatsan.com.tr/company.asp

HATSAN is one of the self adequate factories of the world in firearms industry. The production within the border of HATSAN includes, machining of wood, machining of metal parts, heat treatment, coiling, finishing like honing, different types of plating, injection molding, mold making, welding, engraving etc.

HATSAN has 10000 m² production area, 240 workers and a machine park of total 190 machinery including Computer Numerical Controlled Machines. HATSAN is the unique air gun manufacturer and the best known shotgun manufacturer of Turkey since 1978.

In design and engineering stage of production latest 3-D CAD system is used. All individual synthetic parts, metal parts and assemblies are analyzed through CAE softwares, so that cost elimination and durability are increased. Thanks to up to 5 axis CNC machines all workpieces are machined by the CAM software.

HATSAN is an export oriented factory and exported 96.4% of its products to 42 countries around the world as of 2002.

Many well known brands of the world are produced by HATSAN. HATSAN entered US Market with its ESCORT line of shotguns in collaboration with Legacy Sports Int. (www.legacysports.com) in 2002.

[Durandal]

Having made a choice between economy vs. quality....and lost, I second Soma's opinion: " Stick with what you know."

9 times out of 10 with gun manufacturers, you are paying for quality.

A Remington 870 will be more expensive but you will be getting a quality shotgun that a HUGE number of folks own. Thus parts are cheaper, gunsmith (if you do any) is cheaper, and accessories are plentiful and less costly.