Diana 250 Air Rifle

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I have ordered sever items from you over the last two years. I am amazed of the outcome of my last order. This was PITIFUL. NOT THE RIGHT SCOPE, SCOPE MOUNTS, AND PACKING WAS TERRIBLE. Plus the mounts were zip tied and missing two screws. The scope is for a Crosman Rifle. Not a Diana. The mounts are for something cheap. I want the Correct Scope and Scope Mount for this Gun. Which is the Diana 250 COMBO BULLSEYE MOUNT AND SCOPE.I cannot believe this. Come and pick it up or send me my Correct Order. I am Furious! Did not have any protection on Rifle or scope. Scope has scratches in it and mounts are missing (2) two screws. I cannot even use it. I want this Handled in the Correct Manner. This is the Second time I have had to reach out about your Service.
Darren Durham

Quality built,nice looking rifle. Very good value.

Trigger is horrible, length of pull is long.

Trigger is 4.5 lbs. After trigger job 3lbs. Installed a utg 3x9 Hunter. Rifle went from not accurate to 3/4 @ 30yds. Happy with the purchase. The rifle bag that came with mine is very nice . H-N fts 8.64 5.2 head. Thanks Pyramid

Excellent gun all around! Very accurate!

Nice entry level gun, .22cal is good for pest control.

A good value for the money and made well, So far it has held up well & would not change (time will tell).

I have only owned this gun for a month & there quality control has held up ok.Keeping screws tight & slight adj. of scope but otherwise again a good value for a novice.

I got the .22 and think it is a solid springer. It has substantial weight and while not bulky, feels dense. The linkages, seals, screws and all seem robust. It is simple to take apart and tune. Finally, I can shoot it relatively accurately, relative to other springers I have known: at 10 meters, supported artillery hold, I'm getting ~1/2 inch with lead-free Winchester MVP 8.2gr, ~3/4" with $ig $aur Crux 10gr., ~1 with Predator GTO 12gr, and inches with Baracuda Greens (although they do "feel" good when they shoot?) Don't laugh, those are good groups for me from a springer! The open sights line up as a nice, tight match, post and notch. It came with the Diana Bullseye Zero-Recoil scope mount and a 3x9-40 AO scope with a duplex reticle. The mount took my remaining neurons to figure out, but then I really liked it. The scope seems of decent quality, but as the ZR mount is rather high, I put on a Hawke mil-dot for easier close range guessti-aiming (for less guessti-maiming).

Well for me, 5'10" with average arms, it is a bit of a reach to what then feels like a small grip. I would expect either the grip to be bigger or the stock shorter. Someday, I'll cut maybe a half inch off the stock. I prefer the softer thumb-near-the-safety hold over grabbing the grip on this gun, so the thumb-hole is irrelavent. Out of the box the gun was a beast, hard to cock, detonating on every shot, smoking and ringing my near ear with piston slam. I gave up after a tin of 200 pellets or so, but that said, it is super easy to tune.

I though the rifle over-sprung, since I shoot the lighter lead-free ammo. So I took it apart (put masking-tape around the trigger assembly to keep the pins from falling out), cleaned out of the chamber, swapped the Top Hat for a nickel and lubed the rest sparingly, and it stopped detonating and slamming the piston. But then there was this buzz, so then I removed two spring coils, flat and ground the new end, to give a half-inch or so of preload. The buzz is gone and it shoots with more of a taught drum-beat than a smack.
Look up Hector Medina's web posts on that ZR mount. Basically, a cleaning, lube and screw-check got it sliding smoothly. At first I couldn't seat the scope mount since the stop pin gets in the way of the rails settling into the dovetail. The trick is to pull the longer mount screw that goes through the stop pin so it can float, set everything into place, then put that screw back and tighten it all down.

Good looking rifle - nicely blued metal and the stock is finished very well.

As others have said - the trigger. It is long and heavy and hampers what would otherwise be a really good rifle. Would have gotten a better overall rating form me if it weren't for that lousy trigger.

I bought the .22 version and at the time I bought mine it was packaged with a Diana 3 - 9x40 AO scope in their ZR mount, and came with a Pellet pen, padded case and a tin of H&N pellets - all for $130, which I think is a great deal. I was pretty disappointed with the accuracy I was getting with the included pellets (H&N 21.14gr Baracuda Match). The rifle didn't like those AT ALL!
Tried a few other pellets and got better accuracy, but the winner for my rifle was the JSB Exact Jumbo Heavy 18.13gr. If I do my part right they will do just about 1/4" @ 25 yards. I chrono'ed them and for ten shots got an average velocity of 659 fps., with an amazing ES of 8 fps. and SD of only 2! Talk about consistency!
Mine turned out to to be an extremely good rifle for the price point - now if it only came with a better trigger...

Very nice airgun with Checkered wood stock. It is sturdy and nice to hold. I am working on improving my marksmanship especially with the scope.

It is a bit hard to break and cock but that is a good safeguard from being inadvertently used by kids.

The wood stock is nice

Better accuracy

I might have got a bad one. Excessive barrel droop, could not sight in with open sights. Put a scope on it and could only achieve shotgun pattern sized groups. I have 3 other springers and one piston rifle, all 4 shoot a lot better than this one.

Great rifle at a unbeatable price. This is my second one, I got the .177 model when they first came out and after some tuning it can now compete in accuracy with any of my much more expansive break barrel rifles. The wood stock is great and all steel parts are very nicely finished too. Yes it is made in China but it is clear to me that Diana does more than putting it's name on it, quality control is at the factory is obvious. The scope that come with it is "ok" for a cheaper scope, but thanks to the recoil absorbing Z mount it still hold zero after well over 1000 shots.

I think this rifle deserve a better trigger, Diana should consider an upgrade even if they had to raise the price accordingly.

This a great rifle for beginners or older shooters alike. My .177 spit the Crosman Premier at 1000 fps, plenty of power for most small game and pest.

Without the scope the rifle is accurate. The scope would not adjust far enough to the right. It ran out of adjustment even with other rings and on other rifles, even when shimmed. 1 stars with scope. 4 stars without scope .

The scope.

The loudest noise is twang from the spring.