Page 7 - Diana Bandit Reviews

PRICE, PRICE, PRICE and a PCP, quiet. accurate, trigger is acceptable once given attention, polish and adjust. Magazine, and moderator, bolt is precise.

Iron sights are well not quite junk but not far from it...the elevation is held in adjustment only by spring tension...probably won't hold adjustment..I don't know for sure since I took them off very quickly and added a $25 red dot sight. Grips are cheap and ugly, and blocky, just if you're picky go ahead and shape the grips for your hand. Trigger needs adjustment, make sure to clean the barrel, there was a bur on the transfer port. Remove barrel and inspect transfer port and breach, polish if needed.

I had read the reviews and expected it would need a little attention...while it's not absolutely needed...it's nice to do and I like that sort of thing. The gun is simple so doing what I did was no big deal. Removed barrel, sanded and polished breech and transfer port....CLEANED barrel. Removed grips and cut and filled to fit my hand better, polished hammer and sear, and reset trigger screws for better trigger feel. Plus, sanded stock down, reshaped and got rid of all the hard lines on it...smoothed it out, added deeper stippling to stock...Even though I did all this to the gun I consider it a great gun for the price. Purchased a $25 red dot sight and this really helps the accuracy.

I now own 4 of these pistols, and I have a blast with them! From plinking, target shooting and hunting, they do everything I want them to do. I like the style, the function and of course the PRICE!

I have XL hands, and these grips are a bit large even for me. I found a company in Canada that stocks extra grips for these pistols so I could modify them and still have the original grips. A bit smaller all around would probably be best for all customers, but that remains to be seen.

About the grips, as above. Best price for a PCP pistol I've found yet! A company in China makes these guns, and also a pistol that I just can't get over: the Artemis PP700-SA. It is a cousin to this Bandit and made by the same company, but sold under at least 4 different names. It is the most accurate, easy to use, most ergonomic PCP pistol I have ever found, and the price is unbelievable, esp. for what you get.....I know many people look down on Chinese products, but I have had absolutely NO issue with any of these guns. The PP700 is so popular it is hard to find, and in fact I had to go to a company in Canada for my .22, and PORTUGAL for my .17!! Purchase either or both pistols - you won't be sorry and you will have a blast!!

It actually has enough power to hunt with! I put a baby Hatsan rifle scope on it and Wa La 35 40 yrds no problem.

Mine could be the Gen 1 because I broke my bolt. My Gen 2 Storm Rider has a much more significant bolt so they definitely worked the problem out. I just bought mine too early.

This thing is extremely quiet! If you don't know what you're listening for you don't know what it is that you're hearing across the fence, or across the houses. You can actually pest with this thing in extremely close proximity to occupied dwellings without alerting the people inside. I've had great luck in very low-light conditions almost undetected. Accurate enough to not worry about hitting by product.

For $180 this thing is awesome. If you collect PCPs. Just buy it. This costs about the same as the magazines to some of my others. :-). It is powerful and accurate. Amazingly accurate. In fact it annoys me that it always slightly beats my maurader pistol from the bench. Though the marauder has a lot more pellets through it. I added a UTG bugbuster scope and for quite some time this was my daytime rat hunter at the barn. I dont shoot it like a pistol. I pull than handle up to my chest close for eye relief and stability. It also comes with a moderator and the single shot tray which is nice. Its great for rats in the day when you dont want scare people walking around with a big rifle. The moderator does a good job and I dont startle horses either.

I did eventually break the bolt off. Pyramyd Air did send me an upgraded new on at no charge. Thanks! The magazines are a little flunky. Sometimes the last pellet sticks magazine needs to be wiggled to bring it around. Not that bad but not as solid as the maurader. Yes the grip is massive though that may have been changed. I got mine about a year ago. The FPS curve is also a little strange I posted a picture. Very powerful close to max fill then tapers off. I have made no adjustments though. Trigger was not great at first though after adjusting it the second stage is sharp though heavier than my other airguns. I can still shoot accurately from the bench or off hand.

Again if you collect PCPs just get one. I also shoot FX, ataman and crosman and still find time for this one. If this is going to be your only PCP though Id recommend spending a little more for a maurader pistol. I had some minor issues including the breaking bolt and pellet feed issues. The taper of the barrel become dented down over time (I believe from broad hollow points). It started to damage pellets and got to the point I needed to run a tapered drill bit by hand over the feed end of the barrel to smooth it back out. Otherwise pellets would not load.

I am still amazed about nearly hole on hole accuracy at 35 yards when accounting for velocity. Enough so that I did buy the regulator for it though the FPS dropped a lot. I took it our for now but will try again when I get some time. Most of the time I am shooting rats at 15-35 feet so velocity shifts at that close dont make much of a difference.

Again nice affordable PCP. You cant go wrong

This is a sweet weapon ..very accurate..

The air pressure gage isnt accurate but its easy to compensate for..

Feels good In your hand, Hits hard, Is accurate and very quiet. Relatively compact, lightweight, and easy to point, shoot and cycle the bolt. I was only able to use It 2 weeks and will discuss that below. Mine was In .22 and If I remember correctly, at 15 yards I could fire about 21 shots or 3 mags before noticable p.o.i. shift and It seemed shots 2-10 or 3-12 were the most powerful. The gun should have a barrel band, the stormriders works. The Magazines are solid as there main body's are made from die cast aluminum and have lexan/Plexi cover. They Insert Into the breech well and I liked the magnets they use In the breech and on the mags, to guide them or hold them In place. The single shot tray Is also solid aluminum with magnet and feeds good. The bolt cycles pretty good, not great, but this would most likely get better with time. I do feel the bolt and handle should be beefier, or made better as It does seem a little weak and I've heard of people breaking It.

Im not sure If I got a lemon, but It seems several people are having the same Issues. The guns decent and has potential, but quality control Is lacking. I was well aware when buying this .22 Bandit, that Its NOT a Diana (far from it) and that It's made by Snowpeak In China and It's also sold as a "Artemis" over sea's. Nevertheless, with Its price and good looks I had to try It. When I received It, Initial Impressions were good, It was packed well with owner manual, xtra breech 'o' rings, probe, Xtra probe 'o' rings, single shot tray, 1 magazine and the case, and It looked and felt like a quality piece. Upon shooting It, I quickly realized that the pellets were clipping the moderator endcap/baffle. No biggy, removed moderator endcap, baffles and aligned with wooden dowel, solved. Then the safety started jamming off and on. A day after that, the gun started leaking and losing about 500psi over night. At this time I decided to exchange It for another.

I haven't received my replacement as the .22 are not available yet. I Been waiting a while but I will give it another shot because as I stated above, It Is a good gun and great value, when It's working.

Wow you guys at pyramyd air are really messed up. You guys won't even let me post a truthful review of the product. You guys have become so foul behind your veil of deceit. Your whole act is just to deceive people and string them along in hopes that they won't spend there money somewhere else. Then you sell Inferior products and won't let people post a truthful review about a product, WOW. Its ok, you can edit and block my reviews all you want, because I've already spoke with alot of people on the forums and they have confirmed everything I've just said. That's why people who actually have a clue about shooting, and those with firearm backgrounds can see through all your b.s. lies and figures. You might be able to polish a turd and sell it for $1,400 to some newby that never held a real gun in his life, but people that come from firearms can see, It's still just a P.O.S. The thing Is , when you spend $500+ On a firearm, It comes In a case, Is usually perfect, top notch machining,etc

Spend thousands of dollars with a company and they give you 20 dollars in "bullseye bucks" yaaaay!! String people along by giving false information and trying to attract idiots to the field who know nothing about guns, and shooting and then deceive them by selling them junk guns that are hyped up to be "Big game pcp's" and "Take Any game with ease" and your other corny remarks, when In actuality most of the big bores you sell are only around 120-250 ft lbs and won't even be legal to use on big game because of the 300-350 ft lbs energy restrictions that most states enacted. Furthermore this 300-350 foot pound regulation will be raised Indefinitely along with other rules, because the countless cases of Injured game, due to every Idiot with a big bore pcp that thinks he's a hunter and can harvest a deer or a boar, etc. Also I love your "Interactive hunting map" thats giving FALSE Information to people about airgun hunting. My state and several others are totally Inaccurate.

I know you won't post this but maybe one of you behind the curtain of deceit will. I used to love you guys, but I see now, that your all about hyped up figures, trumped up b.s. and don't really give a damn about your customers. Its sad really because I used to love coming here for everything and was promoting you guys. Now It's quite the opposite.

It's liteweigjt ,accurate & a good-looking pistol

First thing I'd change is "quality control. The safety doesn't work & the clip doesn't chamber very well."

It's a good pistol just check your safety as soon as you get it. Could save you some money on a new window!

Very very accurate put a red dot on it extremely Dead on if you are a left-hander it will be tough to keep reloading unless you switch the gun from hand to hand are both right-handed and left-handed it's more of a right-handed gun and there's no way to switch the lever on the other side for Lefty but great value overall Diana you really hit the mark on this one

Reloder can't be switched to right side for left-handers other than that the gun is great

This gun has lots of power

seems to have lots of power for two mags of pellets (in .177) Compact, functions good. The fill probe that came with it is for something else (maybe a full size Diana or AA) , I had to modify it to fil properly both gun and quick connects. All the seals needed to be replaced and lubed. It wouldn't hold air. I haven't got to the valve seals yet, because I bought a regulator and I'll be changing and checking them at the time of tuning. Most all the screws were loose and the fill gauge also. I do like the fact I can change the hammer spring retainer and put the Chaser grip and stock to have a little pcp carbine and put the Grip on the Chaser for a nice CO2 target pistol. I like the idea that I can, and will, put a regulator in it.

better quality control, but it's China made.

Already covered most of it in the "like" box.
I have the Chaser, which is fairly compatible with the Bandit as far as parts go.
I already have a P-rod, but i would be willing to try switching the Chaser rifle barrel with the Bandit, of course the bolt and breech etc.
It's a fun little gun, but you do need to beware of loose parts and dry seals. Ace Hardware has most of these you'll need.

feels good in my hand and is quiet

it should have a barrel support to keep from getting sights out of align

the barrel support on a Diana Stormrider will fit the Bandit. after I installed it the Bandit was dead on even after bumping the barrel.

Nice gun .. Fun to plink with. Strong enough to kill at close range. U get about 24 to 30 shots of good velocity. Grip is good even if it looks like it is not.

More shots in magazines

Hand pumps easy enough about 40 pumps. About 3 mins on a traveler compressor.

Very quiet. Good entry level PCP once they fix the problem noted below.

They need to do a better job of removing the burrs around the air transfer port inside the barrel. These burrs damage the side of the pellet and cause the gun to be very inaccurate as well as creating a lot of lead shavings. You can feel the pellet catching as you close the bolt. This happens with the single shot tray too. I very carefully removed the burr using a very fine oval rat tail file. I had this issue with the barrels on a Chaser pistol/ rifle combo set also. The accuracy has improved significantly but I had to remove the barrel to fix it. The grip is too large and I have fairly big hands.

You can install this pistol in the Chaser polymer frame and then have the option of installing the shoulder stock and 18" rifle barrel as long as you swap out the main tube end cap from the original CO2 Chaser pistol. Easy to do and you should get around 900fps with the long barrel.
Diana / Pyramyd need to offer the end cap as well as different barrel lengths, polymer stock options and longer air tubes so people can customize these guns.

light weight, nice balance, crisp trigger pull, ease of filling, the grip was amazing, perfect fit to my hand.

bolt action magazine takes a bit to get used to, but well worth it!

be prepared to have a blast!!

Lightwieght. Decent Power. Price.

Stock...so I am. Putting a Chaser Takedown Stock on it. This was my intention before I even bought this gun.

I just got this delivered today. Along with some .177 Air Arms 10.3 grain pellets... It came almost full of air. I fired a few (7-8) shots. Then I removed the rear sight and installed an old Redfield Accelerator reflex Red Dot I've had lying around on it. I fired a few more shots...then filled the magazine up and shot all 9 rounds flawlessly. Filled it back up to 3000...So far so good. I plan on adding a regulator and chaser carbine stock also.

Easy to pump up. Able to add a scope. Reasonably accurate: precision is capable, that is up to the shooter though. The gun looks classic, but yet futuristic. Shooting it is easy, it functioned flawlessly.

Make a butt stock available.

If you intend to shoot this with a scope and hold it at arm's length you will need a pistol scope.

I rarely give a 5 star rating, but this pistol impressed me. The fps is considerably higher than advertised. In .22 cal. using H&N 14 gr. sport-757 fps for first seven (1 clip) shots, 2nd clip is in the 650 range. Like all air guns (or firearms) try different pellets. This will do a 1" group w/H&N 14 gr. at 25 yards. I put a 4x scope on mine & it works great. Trigger pull is about 4.5 # . Manual says trigger is adj., have'nt attempted as yet.

Price of spare magazine (currently 20 bucks!)

VERY quiet! When this thing fires you can only hear the hammer spring.

Accurate and light weight. I got mine in .22 to go with my Storm Rider.

Maybe have a barrel band but that is about it.

Handle grip is a little on the big side but you get use to it.

Really cool looking gun. I wear LG & XL gloves and find most handguns to have too small a grips. I REALLY like the size & feel of the grips on this gun. I sighted it in shooting 30' with open sights and was quite happy with the accuracy. The manual directions were backwards for moving the shot left or right, but I figured that out. I also decided to try a 2-7 scope with medium height Hawke rings on it this week and I still had to remove the rear site to get it to fit. Works great with the scope and sighted in quickly. For the $ it's a great deal.

The cocking lever is pretty spindley and worries me a bit on it bending or breaking if used too roughly. I pull back right against the receiver to keep from putting too much strain on it and then push it forward from the end of the bolt and that all works fine.

The Bandit comes with one magazine and one single shot insert. The mag is light and pretty tiny. it would be easy to loose or break. Extra mag(s) is a smart move.

I love the way it shoots. It took little effort to get it sighted in and knocking out the bullseye at 10-40 yards. Seems well constructed, but the o-rings could be better. The handle is nice, with a little Dremel tool magic it will be perfect. The suppressor works very well. If I had to guess it knocks the sound in half from unsuppressed. I ended up taking the fixed sights off, and I put a 4-12x40 scope I had laying around on it. Its amazing now. I love the adjustable trigger, although it took a little tweaking to get it at an acceptable setting. (Screw it all the way in, and then back it out until it will cock. Adjust from there). It loves the .22 JSB Diablo Jumbo Heavy 18.13 gr. I shoot 2 magazines per fill. It takes about 20 pumps to fill it up again. I ordered it with the Stormrider barrel band, and 1 extra magazine. I would suggest the same to anyone buying it. Overall its a great little gun, it beat all my expectations at this value price. Just buy one if you are looking.

Safety is very stiff and notchy. O-rings are weak. Handle has plenty of material, but it requires custom fitting and finishing.