Diana P-Five Air Pistol

It has a good heft in the hand, and the cocking force is quite manageable.

The trigger as it ships requires an enormous amount of force. I would ship the gun with a lighter trigger setting. I believe you can adjust it, but you'll need to discover which screwdriver bit works and it better be a small one because the hole to get to the adjustment screw is pretty small. Safety is almost inaccessible and difficult to engage if you have fat fingers.

The rear sight is barely functional; it makes this gun wildly inaccurate. While elevation can be easily adjusted with one screw backed up by a small spring, the windage adjustment just doesn't work well. I could only get the v-sight to move a little bit, not as much as I needed. There are two screws for this windage part and while the instructions say to only loosen the left one, the right one works, too, but either of them are negligible for windage adjustment. Curiously, the gun shipped missing its elevation spring (as did a Diana Bandit I ordered a month later) so I had to find the US Diana distributor - they're in Vancouver, BC. They sent me 2 replacement rear sights which turned out to be as mediocre as the original. I've removed the rear sight and installed a simple red dot on the 11 mm weaver rail. I suspect this is not one of Diana's premiere air guns.

The cocking force isn’t terribly onerous. It shoots accurately. I’m sure through eventual trial and error I will find a pellet it favors, but for now I can’t complain about any of them. I don’t find it a heavy pistol although it isn’t by any means “compact”!

Curiously, this pistol shipped missing the spring in the rear sight. I had to go through quite an exercise to discover who was responsible for Diana products in the US, but once I found them, and communicated the problem, they sent me two sets of rear sights (my Diana Bandit had the same issue!) and I installed them successfully so as to be able to adjust the rear sights.

Somewhat long for a pistol, it will require a diligent search before you find a suitable soft or hard case for it. All in all, once you figure out your individual Diana airguns’s idiosyncrasies you’ll discover that they are accurate and enjoyable. Read the other reviews, too, as their suggestions and observations are more sophisticated than mine as they have more intimate acquaintance with the internals of air guns. One reviewer spoke of the recoil and how a looser hold might help.

Great trigger feel, solid construction. Has a rail for optics. Pretty decent accuracy out to around 10 yards, after that it's not so good but I can't rule out my lack of skill in that regard.

Make it more powerful.

This is a rebranded Snow Peak gun. Diana does a good job of disguising it's Chinese made origins. I also bought the .22 off brand model on Amazon. I removed the standard sights and added Center Point red/green dot sights. They help tremendously with accuracy and the guns are pretty on point up to about 10 yards out. The off brand .22 came with grease slopped all over it and dieseled a lot. The Diana is much cleaner and smoother out of the box.