Diana Stormrider Thoughts
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Well, I have one.
For what I paid for it I am happy. BUT.........I have done a few things to it. It is a shooter at 10M for sure shooting JSB 13.43 gr pellets. 7.87 JSB are second. I will attach a link to this at the end of one of my targets. I have a bunch I can show.
What I have done is:
Firstly it is not a regulated PCP. I bought and installed a regulator. I have it set at 100 BAR. With this I can get 35 shots at about 730FPS with the 13.43 gr pellet. The 7.87 gr is about 100 FPS faster. If I turn it up to a higher pressure I get more velocity but loose the amount of useable shots.
I did some trigger work. That is me though. When you shoot 2 oz triggers on rifles you do what you can to improve it. I also had removed the barrel and touched up the crown and the leade where the pellet enters the barrel. Again just me.
Today I pulled it entirely appart to clean the receiver do some touch up work, reassembled and it shot where it was supposed to after 1 scope adjustment at 10 M.
The nice thing about it from empty with a hand pump it took me 100 strokes to get it up to pressure.
Overall to shoot with it out of the box it works. You just have to.fimd the right pellet. I wanted the heavy ones to.work so that head shots at squirrels would knock them down. Dialed at 10M dead on it is 1" low at 5M. I have to shoot it more at 15 and 20 meters to see its flight path.
https://photos.app.goo.gl/dDo171gYJxksiza49
For what I paid for it I am happy. BUT.........I have done a few things to it. It is a shooter at 10M for sure shooting JSB 13.43 gr pellets. 7.87 JSB are second. I will attach a link to this at the end of one of my targets. I have a bunch I can show.
What I have done is:
Firstly it is not a regulated PCP. I bought and installed a regulator. I have it set at 100 BAR. With this I can get 35 shots at about 730FPS with the 13.43 gr pellet. The 7.87 gr is about 100 FPS faster. If I turn it up to a higher pressure I get more velocity but loose the amount of useable shots.
I did some trigger work. That is me though. When you shoot 2 oz triggers on rifles you do what you can to improve it. I also had removed the barrel and touched up the crown and the leade where the pellet enters the barrel. Again just me.
Today I pulled it entirely appart to clean the receiver do some touch up work, reassembled and it shot where it was supposed to after 1 scope adjustment at 10 M.
The nice thing about it from empty with a hand pump it took me 100 strokes to get it up to pressure.
Overall to shoot with it out of the box it works. You just have to.fimd the right pellet. I wanted the heavy ones to.work so that head shots at squirrels would knock them down. Dialed at 10M dead on it is 1" low at 5M. I have to shoot it more at 15 and 20 meters to see its flight path.
https://photos.app.goo.gl/dDo171gYJxksiza49
I have the Diana Bandit which is the pistol version of the rifle. I've had it for over a year and I'm very happy with it with the exception of the accuracy. I too am thinking about a regulator and I have read about showing the crown some going over. TC
Regulator is an easy install. Depressurize it, remove the end fill cap of the tank, press the regulator into the tube till it bottoms out, make sure it is adjusted to desired pressure, and replace it with the new end cap fill gauge.
Then pressurize the tank.
When installing a regulator you have to get the end cap with the pressure gauge on it along with the regulator. If not you do not know what you have the tank filled to. The existing gauge on the rifle will only show the regulated pressure after the regulator install.
Re scope, I have Bushnell Elite 3200 5-15x on it. Wish they were still made. I would have a few more of them.
Then pressurize the tank.
When installing a regulator you have to get the end cap with the pressure gauge on it along with the regulator. If not you do not know what you have the tank filled to. The existing gauge on the rifle will only show the regulated pressure after the regulator install.
Re scope, I have Bushnell Elite 3200 5-15x on it. Wish they were still made. I would have a few more of them.
With my factory barrel, I removed it and touched the crown and the leade of the barrel. I just chucked up a 30 cal bullet in my cordless drill with some fine lapping compound and spun it till it was smooth. Many would say what? I was not worried because of it did not shoot I could get another barrel for it for about 30.00. As a matter of fact I have bought 2 more barrels to try out on it. It ended up the factory shot better than the other 2.
