First air rifle

[bobo]

The younger of my 2 boys has become quite fond of shooting, so he goes to the shooting club as much as he can.
He is only 9 years old, and at 9 years old it is not always easy to afford many 22LR cartridges.

So I decided that he could get an air rifle to practice with here at home, it is a lot cheaper than 22LR.
Unfortunately, my old BSA Meteor air-rifle has been lost over the years, so a new one had to be bought.

A quick search showed that BSA air rifles are too expensive for some practice shooting.
Here in Denmark, Diana was the best-selling brand when I was a child, and Diana had a really good reputation.

The choice of a "cheap" air rifle therefore fell on Diana.
Ordered a complete package online on Wednesday evening, and it arrived at my house today, Friday a little after noon. That's what I call fast delivery.

Diana Stormrider Black Gen. 3 Regulated PCP-Luftgevær inkl. Pumpe, kikkert, Etui - 4,5 mm.

Diana Stormrider Gen 3 i kaliber 4,5 mm er et moderne og driftssikkert PCP luftgevær, der kombinerer høj præcision med brugervenlighed og klassisk design. I denne komplette pakkeløsning får du ikke blot det populære Stormrider Gen 3 med integreret regulator og PCP pumpe – men også et...

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Now that the rifle has arrived, I must admit there are a few surprises.

The first was that it takes over 100 pumps to get it up to 200bar.

Next was the power of the rifle. I hadn't read the specifications on it, and have no experience with PCP at all, but I can now see that they are in a completely different class than spring guns.
The first shot showed that it really had a lot of power, so the chronograph was found and put under.
It showed 300-305 m/s (985 Feet per sec) with 0.56gram (8.64 grain) pellets.
That's an unnecessarily large amount of force for training, but I think it will definitely be able to handle pest control if he becomes interested in this as he gets older.


But, I am very satisfied with the trigger and precision and find it Incredibly comfortable to shoot with.
We have put it on the bench and it shoots holes in holes at a distance of 30 meters.

All in all, the boy can now get lots of cheap training.
If he doesn't get tired of pumping.
And then he has to read the mandatory leaflet with the 7 rules for air rifles.

 

[Smellydog]

With a pump keep it topped up. Don't run it near empty.
If it has no anti tamper measures you can probably adjust it's output quite easily.

 

[Norfolk Muntjac]

Modern PCP's are brilliant, I have a some and there great for practicing and pest control.

 

[bullet chucker]

Open sites to start with will be a great beginning for a young man to understand accuracy, remember when we were young and our eyes could see every thing near or far.

BC.

 

[bobo]

With a pump keep it topped up. Don't run it near empty.
If it has no anti tamper measures you can probably adjust it's output quite easily.

Thanks for the advice.
This morning I found out how to turn down the power, and it is now down to 230 m/s, and can fire more shots on one pumping.

Open sites to start with will be a great beginning for a young man to understand accuracy, remember when we were young and our eyes could see every thing near or far.

I completely agree, I've taken the scope off again.
If he ever wants to offer some pest control to the local farmers, he can always put it back on.

The scope is also not relevant to his training, which is the primary reason for buying the rifle, in the shooting club everything is over open sight.

 

[Border]

Weirauch HW 30S .177 is what I bought last year. Great little rifle.

 

[bullet chucker]

That price converted to UK Sterling is less than £400 seems very reasonable if you do not mind me saying?

BC.

 

[opticron1]

First air rifle I ever used was a break barrel springer Diana, used to use it for target practice in the garden (or in the hall when it was wet and my Mum wasn't home!). Cheap and cheerful and useful for rabbits and small flying things - much to my embarrassment now - but when you're young and daft, believe me, anything with legs or wings became a target!
Still tucked away somewhere in a roof space of a family member, worn out, but too many memories to dispose of it!

 

[HonestJohn]

Grew up running around the woods on a farm outside Assens with a 17 diana. Then popping to the river for some bækørreder,

‘‘Twas a good childhood until I was forced to London as a young teen

Can’t beat a Diana!