Diana Sky Hawk
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I HAD one, emphasized the HAD. Other then being fairly lightweight I felt the quality was severely lacking.
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Yeah I wanted one but it was commonly spoken of as a lottery. Seemed like you had a 1 in 3 chance of getting a good barrel. Others said the reg didn't always work correctly. I think it's a good design if the quality was there. I might pick one up used after someone put in the work and put a LW barrel in it. I wouldn't buy a new one tho unless you feel like shipping it back a few times. Who knows maybe you would get lucky the first time.
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I have a .25 cal. It is my second one. I love the look and feel of it. The stock is beautifull. Its light weight and balances good. My first one was not good. Velovity all over the place. It would shoot 2" groups at 12 yards. Sent it back for refund. PA has a refurbished one and I thought I would take a chance. They have a great return policy. It turned out great.
Cheap barrels and junk regs. Its a lottery if you get a good one. They can be upgraded. Then you could be in the price range of taipan veteran by the time your done. Here's a 40 yard target.
Cheap barrels and junk regs. Its a lottery if you get a good one. They can be upgraded. Then you could be in the price range of taipan veteran by the time your done. Here's a 40 yard target.
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I have one in .22... guess I got lucky...
Head shots on starlings at 40 yards are easy IF I do my part... and the gun has video evidence of taking birds at 80+ yards from the previous owner
The laminate stock adds a bit of weight, but it helps me dampen movement some.
Head shots on starlings at 40 yards are easy IF I do my part... and the gun has video evidence of taking birds at 80+ yards from the previous owner
The laminate stock adds a bit of weight, but it helps me dampen movement some.
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Thanks for all the input. I do have a P12 and want to know if anyone has tried to change out the stock? That Sky Hawk stock would look nice on the P12.
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I have one in .22. it's a nice light little gun. It's my least expensive PCP, but it's a joy to shoot. 6.7lbs with a Leupold 4x. Shooting JSB 15.9's @ 875fps for 75 shots per fill. Mine is plenty accurate for me out to 60yrds. They do have some very nice furniture for the price point also.
Sounds like I got lucky with mine.
Sounds like I got lucky with mine.
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I have one that has been down a lot. It is fast, light and lovely, if you win all the lotteries, stock, barrel and shroud, you have a very neat little rifle that punches above it’s weight, but winning all those lotteries is a iffy situation that buying more tickets can’t help. Problem is the base gun is Snow Peak junk at it’s zenith and a well established European airgun company known for quality, and perhaps from now on known for not following through on what airgunners had come to ex0ect.
I fell in love with that walnut stock and the weight. Against the advice of others, that would be Frank aka Vetmx, thinking ttat dumping money on plenums, Huna regulators and LW poly choked barrels would make the ultimate bullpup, in the end it leaked like a serve, was very hard to work on due to gauling threads and poor quality control and no parts or service, and I mean zero support.
And it started to leak, and one problem after another cropped up. My vision problems made things far worse. So for months it set disassembled in its case on a closet shelf while I contemplated stealing the barrel for other projects.
I sent that case of non working parts to a saint who offered to resealed it for me and he returned it as a working rifle tuned to shoot from 425 to 925 FPS very accurately with CHP’S.
I shoot indoors most of the time, now the Skyhawk shoots quietly, accurately and is a joy to handle, I recently purchased a Meopta to top it off, but in the back of my mind, it scares me.
It is the poster child of Chinese crap, an innovative design that has poor execution, intertwined with a predatory European sales policy that left us Diana Skyhawk shooters with no parts, no service. Diana let us down on this one big time.
I did learn important lessons, don’t buy chinese, don’t buy European rebranded Chinese goods, don’t buy first issues of any pcp model and if Diana was the only airgun manufacturer left in the post pandemic world, I would take up knitting.
Now I buy European and American products and no rebranded Chinese products, my last 2 rifles have been a Kratos and a Texan 257 lss, dependable, easy to work on with aftermarket sales reputations that are sterling.
Regards,
Roachcreek
I fell in love with that walnut stock and the weight. Against the advice of others, that would be Frank aka Vetmx, thinking ttat dumping money on plenums, Huna regulators and LW poly choked barrels would make the ultimate bullpup, in the end it leaked like a serve, was very hard to work on due to gauling threads and poor quality control and no parts or service, and I mean zero support.
And it started to leak, and one problem after another cropped up. My vision problems made things far worse. So for months it set disassembled in its case on a closet shelf while I contemplated stealing the barrel for other projects.
I sent that case of non working parts to a saint who offered to resealed it for me and he returned it as a working rifle tuned to shoot from 425 to 925 FPS very accurately with CHP’S.
I shoot indoors most of the time, now the Skyhawk shoots quietly, accurately and is a joy to handle, I recently purchased a Meopta to top it off, but in the back of my mind, it scares me.
It is the poster child of Chinese crap, an innovative design that has poor execution, intertwined with a predatory European sales policy that left us Diana Skyhawk shooters with no parts, no service. Diana let us down on this one big time.
I did learn important lessons, don’t buy chinese, don’t buy European rebranded Chinese goods, don’t buy first issues of any pcp model and if Diana was the only airgun manufacturer left in the post pandemic world, I would take up knitting.
Now I buy European and American products and no rebranded Chinese products, my last 2 rifles have been a Kratos and a Texan 257 lss, dependable, easy to work on with aftermarket sales reputations that are sterling.
Regards,
Roachcreek
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