Page 4 - Diana Stormrider Gen 2 Reviews

With a little tinkering this thing is fantastic for anyone that uses a hand pump. Mine was shooting supersonic with 7.5 grain pellets, and over 1000 with 8.5s. I drained the tank, removed it from the stock and started clipping coils on the hammer spring. After 5 coils, I'm at 950 fps with 7.5 grain pellets and just over 900 with 8.5 grain. I get 12 VERY consistent shots from 130 bar down to 100 bar. 25 easy strokes with my pump tops it back off.

If you're shooting pellets with soft skirts, the magazine will damage them and hurt accuracy. I'm not sure how it could be redesigned, but I use the single shot tray most of the time now.

Very accurate gun. Decent trigger, the fact that it's adjustable is awesome. Love the overall slim feel and weight. .22 cal packs a punch on small game. The air fill adapter is even easier than a foster.

A regulator would be nice but at this price point it can't be expected.

It took me a while to get dialed but it was all about understanding that pressure sweet spot. Once I figured that out, it became a tack driver with inexpensive Crosman .22 hollow points. I fill it to about 160 bar max, keep the barrel oiled and it remains extremely accurate. I work from home & live rural so I shoot it daily--- it's been a great gun.

Very light, fast handling, points quickly. Wonderfully smooth, crisp, adjustable trigger. Silent, powerful, accurate, efficient and truly a bargain!

Add a fixed Foster connector.

As others have said, buy it!

It's accurate.

The narrow plastic stock. It don't fit your grip or shoulder at all.

Buy the wooden stock not the plastic one!!!

Gun was holding air on arrival. Sighted in pretty good out of the box. First shot hit a soda can at 50 feet. Extremely quiet. Firing from my back deck my wife could not here anything in the house. Very nicely built and excellent finish. Light weight and easy to handle.

Change location of pressure gauge to bottom or side of fore-stock.

Buy it!

The trigger is nice overall quality is nice very acurate

Needs the extra barrel band

I purchased this rifle about 2 weeks ago but did not want to write a review until i shot it even though i was very impressed right out of the box. I did go ahead and fabricate another barrel band before i shot it. Since i plan to hunt with this rifle i could see the barrel getting knocked around . finally got some time to see how it shot today . i tried 4 different types of pellets h&n barracuda match , jsb jumbo monster,jsb rs, and jsb jumbo Diabolo 15.89. They all shot very well. The h&n did not seem to cycle through the magazine as smoothly as the others but did shoot a nice group . the jsb rs was the worst group at less than 3/4 inch the rest were sub 1/2 inch . all were shot at 10 and 20 yards i will be stretching that out to 50 yards when i get some better weather and time. All in all great gun i am very impressed. And i do recommend both the gun and pyramid air great product great people.very pleased with my purchase.

Great Value. Very Accurate with the stock sights. Only minor sight adjustment needed out of the box. Nice trigger for the money. Backyard friendly. The first 3 or 4 shots after a fill are loud (like a roofing-nail gun) but after that it is quite enough for backyard practice. Could short-fill it to eliminate the first few loud shots. Have about 300 shots through it. Appears to be well made with quality materials. Easy to fill with a hand pump. Get about 30 shots per fill.

Location of the pressure gauge forces you to look near the end of the barrel.

At the $200. (or below if on sale) price point this gun seems like an incredible value. One of the highest-value purchases I have ever made.

How easy it is to operate, the trigger is easy, right out the box it's accurate with open sights, Easy to pump up with a hand pump or 3 stage air compressor and very light.

It would be nice if the air cylinder was removable to air up even easier.

It's a great air rifle, I would recommend this one.

Good truck gun for small game and varmints.It has enough power unless you are deer or buffalo hunting.

Pressure gage should be located somewhere easy to read while filling without looking down the barrel.Send a fill port that actually fits standard hardware.Mine did not fit and others have said the same.When are you going to stop shipping bad parts.

Pyramid air should check the fill port before leaving there care since mine and other come too large to fit a standard fill valve.THeir advice is to file it down to size or buy another for 20 bucks.How many new items would you buy that need work before you use it?And they are not at all apologetic about it.Bad move Pyramid.I will listen to the bad comments about you on facebook about you from now on.

Power vs weight. Have 177 too. Great PCP. More comfortable than my Fortitude.

A bit more rail. Offer reg as combo upgrade perhaps??

If SPA made this, so what ! It shoots very well. Bolt upgrade is much better than my broken Bandit.

Nice weight. Great size. Does the trick. Power will surprise you.

Better barrel brace

3-4 magazines or 28 good shots between fills.as advertised

The Diana Stormrider Gen2 With synthetic stock is a joy to shout. I own the original Stormrider and loved it so I though I would try the Gen2 and glad I did. Even though the Gen1 is accurate the improvements in the Gen2 are very noticeable when shouting side by side. First is the trigger the Gen2 is smoother and lighter right out of the box. Next is the loudness, the new muzzle brake moderator is a huge difference much quieter then Gen1. But if you want you can remove the brake, Diana supply a thread protector. Like the Gen1 the Gen2 is easy to fill with a hand pump and like the Gen1 the Gen2 is very light weight, love that. I will wright about the stock and fill gauge in the things I would change... Over all for the money the Diana Stormrider Gen2 is well worth it.

The things t would like to change, only because you asked, are the stock and gauge. first the stock. Its to short, feels like a kids gun but I can shout it fine enough. Next is the presser gauge, Gen1 had it under in the stock. Gen2 has it in end of air cylinder, when shouting I like to just roll the gun over to see where presser is at. With Gen2 I have to turn on end. I just like Gen1 gauge location better. Again Over all for the Diana Stormrider Gen2 is well worth it.

When mounting a scope I had to remove the rear site and use high rings so my 3x9x40 Center Point scope would clear. The fill probe works great with my hand pump but for some reason when I try to use my Air Venturi Nomad compressor the foster fittings is not compatible and won't bild air. This is true with all my Diana guns. I need to change the female quick connect fitting on my Nomad. As far as velocity I have not tested yet but I have ben testing ammo and so far getting best results with JSB 18,13gr almost same hole each shot at 30 yards

I received my new stormrider today and was impressed. The lines on the stock are clean and overall it looks like a nice smaller carbine It is light weight and goes to the shoulder cleanly and is smooth, Out of the box, the trigger is decent but I will know more about that after I tune it. I will be mounting the scope in the next couple of days but I did shoot it today and out of the box it did well. I bought the synthetic stock because I intend to hydro dip it and I think it will be a fine little rifle.

I would like to see the manometer be a little larger the numbers are small and I have to really look to see them.but that may be just me

The gun is nice but when you first see it looks tiny if you are used to larger caliber firearms but don't let that fool you. I think it will be a easy thing to get used to. When I get it hydro dipped i will upload a picture to show the potential of this little carbine