New Diana PCP!

[Geezer]

Oh dear.

Just out in the States. The Diana Stormrider PCP.

Which appears to be a re-badged Chinese Snow Peak (SMK) PR900W.

More than a little sad to see Diana going down this route.

[landymick]

Afraid so, the yanks have been on about for a while now.

[gunsnlandies]

A few years back they tried fitting Chinese made barrels. Diana learnt the errors of their way. Apparantly the now owners GSG, didn't take any notice of the past mistakes. Considering their range of available rifles, why GSG has decided to cheapen Diana this way is bad joke.
TBH, there's nothing wrong with the little SPA PCP, but it isn't a quality made German rifle. No doubt there will be a premium price to go with the new badge on the action.

[Geezer]

A few years back they tried fitting Chinese made barrels. Diana learnt the errors of their way. Apparantly the now owners GSG, didn't take any notice of the past mistakes. Considering their range of available rifles, why GSG has decided to cheapen Diana this way is bad joke.
TBH, there's nothing wrong with the little SPA PCP, but it isn't a quality made German rifle. No doubt there will be a premium price to go with the new badge on the action.

I don't see a premium - I think it's $200, so cheaper than here.

But the ad blurb starts with Diana's heritage of quality guns since 1892...

I could live with Webley selling FXs as Axsors (or Diana 24s as Airwolves). At least they were of a similar quality level. But passing off a - as far as I know probably perfectly decent - cheap Chinese thing as the latest part of a long legacy of precision German engineering is pushing it a bit.

[Drew451]

They can't even get the date right : it was 1890. Looks like a cheap pile of shite. Cheesy name as well - do the Americans go for that? Will we get it here? This is brand vandalism.
On a brighter note: I just picked up a new 34 Premium which, although not perfect, is good quality. All is not lost just yet but you do wonder what the new owners will think of next.

[gunsnlandies]

They can't even get the date right : it was 1890. Looks like a cheap pile of shite. Cheesy name as well - do the Americans go for that? Will we get it here? This is brand vandalism.
On a brighter note: I just picked up a new 34 Premium which, although not perfect, is good quality. All is not lost just yet but you do wonder what the new owners will think of next.

Maybe the first couple of years were a bit iffy
And on a brighter note, the last new rifle I bought was a Diana AR8 Blaser. That, I'm well happy with.

[scrane]

They can't even get the date right : it was 1890. Looks like a cheap pile of shite. Cheesy name as well - do the Americans go for that? Will we get it here? This is brand vandalism.
On a brighter note: I just picked up a new 34 Premium which, although not perfect, is good quality. All is not lost just yet but you do wonder what the new owners will think of next.

The cheesier the better. We eat it up!

[jonnyone]

A few years back they tried fitting Chinese made barrels. Diana learnt the errors of their way. Apparantly the now owners GSG, didn't take any notice of the past mistakes. Considering their range of available rifles, why GSG has decided to cheapen Diana this way is bad joke.
TBH, there's nothing wrong with the little SPA PCP, but it isn't a quality made German rifle. No doubt there will be a premium price to go with the new badge on the action.

I was off the airgun scene when this happened. On coming back to the fold and hearing this I thought it was a sick joke