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dgui · Member

The Model 25 Daisy is not what it was when I owned one in the early years. There have been some changes that have reduced the Model 25 to a substandard gun. When I purchased this gun today I fully expected todays shooting experience to be exhilarating but it was a pitiful performance. The trigger kept feeling like it was stuck on safety and the accuracy awful and the power on the low side and I tried to get all it would give me. What a disappointment. Brought it back for a refund. Now I am disappointed not because it is made in another country but because the owner allowed the quality to plummet. This Model 25 that is on the market today needs an upgrade.

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flightsimmer · Member

The power is down - mandated by law in some locals.
I would really like to find a replacement spring to boost it back to former levels.
By the way, does anyone know what those former levels were in FPS? My current one chronies at 330 FPS.
I got the chance to chronograph an old original #25 a couple of months ago and it had less power (under 300FPS) than my new one?????? Could be a number of things that caused it.
The trigger on the other hand is very good on mine and the safety is again mandated by law in some if not all locals, but it works good and I have no complaint about it.
I have found Daisy customer service to be excellent if you do run into problems.
I really like mine.

flightsimmer · Member

Oh! By the way, if you purchase your Daisy model #25 (or any other airgun) from Pyramyd Air you can request the 10 shots for $10 deal. That way you have a much better chance of getting a great working airgun. They open the package and look it over and make sure everything works as it should and fire 10 shots over a chronograph and include the tape of the results. That way if there is a problem they will likely find it before they ship it to you and pick out another one for you.
Almost like picking it out for yourself. Great deal.

lledbetter2266 · Member

It seems to shoot about the same as any single-cock BB rifle I've shot before. Not very powerful, but pretty good at 10 yards for knocking down cans or even shooting at targets. Groupings are kind of wide, but it's a BB gun!
However! I do agree that something has changed over the years. I used to have an 880 that was dead accurate at 25 yards, with BB's. That is a pump up rifle, but it shot super straight. I'm thinking barrel manufacturing is of low quality now days. Or something, I don't know. If you want to shoot perfectly straight you will need to use a pellet gun instead.

flightsimmer · Member

Well I saw a mouse on my garage floor this afternoon and I took him out with my model 25 Daisy pump cocking rifle.
It was a through and through to the spine and he dropped like a rock.
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radar · Silver Status Member

Quality control from many, especially Chinese, made airguns, BB guns, or whatever is a bit of a gamble. You can get a good one or a bad one. The less you spend, the better the chance of a bad one, I guess.

At least as far as adult sized pellet rifles with hunting power levels go, they do seem to be getting better and better though.

Rob

CENTURION · Member

Got a 125thanniversary model, liked the way it shot and went ahead and also got a current Chinese one. The import is built very well, after 500 or so shots it's accurate and functions great. The Daisy Museum store is also carrying rails for optics on the red ryder that looks interesting. I can hit a can 100% of the time at 30 ft and it pierces both sides, accuracy on paper is about a 2 in circle. Wif doesn't even hear noise upstairs, love this gun Mr. Green

radar · Silver Status Member

Cool. I'm thinking about getting one just for fun.

When I was a kid, there was a big hole in one of the basement walls in our old house. This was an old farm house at one time around the turn of the last century, but had long since been swallowed up by the city.

The "hole" as we actually called it, was roughly hammered out of the clay tiles of the unfinished basement wall, and was maybe 2 feet in diameter, or a little more. It was at chest height for an adult, and opened up to a dirt floor crawl space under an addition to the back of the house. The dirt floor level was at the bottom of the hole. I think, in retrospect, it might have been an opening for a big, old gravity furnace duct before I was born.

Anyway, this was a great creepy place to hide in hide and seek, and it was also a storage space for cast-off junk by my parents, and possibly the previous owners, too.

One time, at about the age of six, (about 1970) I was belly crawling through "the hole" and pulled out what I now recognize to be an old Daisy model 25. If I recall correctly the butt stock was missing, but it could be cocked and "shot." Neither my older brother or me knew it was supposed to shoot anything. We didn't know it was a BB gun at all, but we liked how it shot air out the end with a thud when we mustered the strength together to get it cocked.

The folks let us play with it sometimes, knowing there were no BBs anywhere in the house to load it. After a while, we got bored with making it go thud and threw it back into "the hole." I have to wonder if it is still in there after all these years, and subsequent homeowners. Cool

Rob

CENTURION · Member

They had to have made millions of these guns and some of their other models. I'd actually like to have one of the pump style roy rogers from the 30's. These daisy guns are a lot of fun. I have other higher powered break barrels and Co2 guns, but these fill a certain niche in shooting. Very Happy

radar · Silver Status Member