I picked up my Icon in .22 from Dan at the weekend. He did me a cracking deal including the konus scope in 6-24 and mounts. I was really impressed with the konus at that price point. Instantly impressed by the clarity. The rifle itself works really nicely and I enjoyed shooting it at the range on Sunday. I've got it primarily for rabbit work on my friends land where I didn't want to take my wooden stock rifles out and about including climbing onto the storage container roof as its a great vantage point. The magazine is excellent and everything worked smoothly. Especially after the mechanism and barrel had a couple of hundred pellets through it. Nice and accurate, for the money you can't beat it. I did add a Hogan decimeter and it's whisper quiet now. Very pleased and it was great chatting to Dan.
Hey bud! It was great chatting to you as you know I could've easily done it all day. I'm glad you're enjoying the rifle they're a fantastic bit of kit aren't they and the Konus scopes are massively underrated. Let me know how you get on with the Icon and as mentioned any issues at all never hesitate to get in touch.
Thanks for the review! This air rifle has it's roots in the Beeman QB series of rifles. The Beeman Chief 2, with the magazine and fill position, to be exact. Other versions are the Umarex Gauntlet with a bottle and the Barra 1100Z which has a side lever breech. This is what Crosman and Benjamin are doing these days. They contract with Kral (Benjamin) or a Chinese manufacturers (Crosman) and make a few changes to put their "Label" on it!
I got my US spec ICON in .177 in Nov 2023 and out of the box, untouched, it was shooting 8.3grn pellets at 1150PFS and it was LOUD! Tuned it way down (800FPS) to make it more accurate and backyard friendly. Great value when on sale. At full price, the Avenger is a better deal.
The Icon is 7 lbs where the Stormrider is 5 and that's including the silencer it comes with, for less money. This thing had better be regulated to be any competition to the Stormrider.
Hi Mike! Thanks for getting in touch and so sorry about any inconveniences. Our Emails have been messing us around recently due to outlook changing their data allowances. If you could get in touch with us again your email should go through this time. Many thanks and I'm so sorry for any inconveniences.
If you can't get Daisy pellets to try no worries...the H&N Terminator gives very similar performance as far as expansion and accuracy. Both are excellent for pest control and minimizing passthroughs. Both are also better than Gamo Red Fire in my opinion not to mention more affordable as well. Really surprised by the accuracy of this budget gun.
Hey Heath! I'll give the Terminators a go as I can't find the Daisy's anywhere in the UK. I'll try and get some Terminators for our next reviews. I need to try some Gamo pellets too.. some are meant to be very good!
Looks a bargain at that price, and using those BSA Gold Star ammo, those result's were impressive in that wind too. Great review as always Dan and thanks for sharing..
Thanks Baz! The Goldstars are essentially rebranded FTT's and they usually shoot bloody well. It's a great little rifle for that money and definitely gives the PR900 some serious competition.
Imagine for a moment Crosman had put AR buffer tube compatible moulding aft and supplied the gun with a cheap AR butt. Perhaps even something that could be adjusted for length of pull? And perhaps even a cheap AR handgrip too. It wouldn't have added much to the price.
Hey Clanger! I agree but it'd have to be a good adjustable buttpad. My only concern would be that being a budget rifle the butt may end up being wobbly like some of the Krals at which point I'd rather have a solid stock. If they got it right though it'd be a superb little package.
@@bigdansairguns83 Yep. I think there is a market there for it. Something more accessible than that Air Arms S510 Tactical or the plethera of foreign tacticool guns.
Another cracking review mate, and for the price i would say it would be really hard to beat, and would make a great pest/ratting rifle, Cheers mate 👌👌👌👍👍👍👍👍👍
Thanks Paul! Despite the weather she shot very well and even the little trigger can be made far better just with a minute or so of adjustments. It's a cracking little gun.
Goldstars .. very impressive ... tried em in .22 and were very good , but strangely enough , I never got round to trying them in .177 ... dunno why , I think im in the QYS fan club at the moment , though H&N have some really good pellets out there now , at one time ( but a few years back ) I wouldn't have given a dogs fart for a tin ... anyway , as far as budget guns go , yes , its a bit of a bargain .. but as far as price goes , where does " budget END , and mid price START ... id say £270 is well in the budget category though ... up to the individual I guess where the cost parameters lay ... twas a damn good review , as I've got used to expect .. think if I did buy this rifle , I'd take that sight thing off the end ..
Hey Mark! It's a great little shooter isn't it? The sad thing is I've heard people say that £1000+ rifles are "mid priced". Mid priced?! That still makes me wince spending £1000 on an airgun and I stock some of them!
Sorry, I'm a bit late to this party but, I've been looking for a budget pcp for some pest control work. I'd like it to be able to take a bipod, but notice this has no 6 o'clock pic rail to it. Would it be a relatively simple task to retro fit a pic rail to it?
So wanted one these as love my Crossman 2240 and 2260 so love a pcp but bought a beeman cheif just before this was released think might have to you a call for one
Hi Joe. That's because with my schedule it's difficult to get time to review on top of everything else and I'd already put the review off for long enough. It's a tricky balancing act as you can't put people off for seeing us just for filming which means at times the review gets compromised a tad.
Hey Anthony. Not made in America I believe it's actually based off of the Beeman Chief platform. The block is almost like for like. That said the Crosman trigger is better than that on the Chief by a wide margin. The Diana Stormrider itself is a badge swapped SMK PR900.
I picked up my Icon in .22 from Dan at the weekend. He did me a cracking deal including the konus scope in 6-24 and mounts. I was really impressed with the konus at that price point. Instantly impressed by the clarity. The rifle itself works really nicely and I enjoyed shooting it at the range on Sunday. I've got it primarily for rabbit work on my friends land where I didn't want to take my wooden stock rifles out and about including climbing onto the storage container roof as its a great vantage point. The magazine is excellent and everything worked smoothly. Especially after the mechanism and barrel had a couple of hundred pellets through it. Nice and accurate, for the money you can't beat it. I did add a Hogan decimeter and it's whisper quiet now. Very pleased and it was great chatting to Dan.
Hey bud!
It was great chatting to you as you know I could've easily done it all day. I'm glad you're enjoying the rifle they're a fantastic bit of kit aren't they and the Konus scopes are massively underrated.
Let me know how you get on with the Icon and as mentioned any issues at all never hesitate to get in touch.
Thanks for the review! This air rifle has it's roots in the Beeman QB series of rifles. The Beeman Chief 2, with the magazine and fill position, to be exact. Other versions are the Umarex Gauntlet with a bottle and the Barra 1100Z which has a side lever breech. This is what Crosman and Benjamin are doing these days. They contract with Kral (Benjamin) or a Chinese manufacturers (Crosman) and make a few changes to put their "Label" on it!
Looks like a bargain starter gun for someone getting into PCP shooting. Good review Dan as always
Thanks Brandon!
I got my US spec ICON in .177 in Nov 2023 and out of the box, untouched, it was shooting 8.3grn pellets at 1150PFS and it was LOUD! Tuned it way down (800FPS) to make it more accurate and backyard friendly. Great value when on sale. At full price, the Avenger is a better deal.
The Icon is 7 lbs where the Stormrider is 5 and that's including the silencer it comes with, for less money. This thing had better be regulated to be any competition to the Stormrider.
Great review of great little gun Dan 👍🏻
Thanks Simon!
I got in touch re: the Reximex Pretensis Walnut before Easter, and in the immortal words of Diana Ross "I'm Still Waiting"
Hi Mike!
Thanks for getting in touch and so sorry about any inconveniences. Our Emails have been messing us around recently due to outlook changing their data allowances. If you could get in touch with us again your email should go through this time.
Many thanks and I'm so sorry for any inconveniences.
If you can't get Daisy pellets to try no worries...the H&N Terminator gives very similar performance as far as expansion and accuracy. Both are excellent for pest control and minimizing passthroughs. Both are also better than Gamo Red Fire in my opinion not to mention more affordable as well. Really surprised by the accuracy of this budget gun.
Hey Heath!
I'll give the Terminators a go as I can't find the Daisy's anywhere in the UK. I'll try and get some Terminators for our next reviews.
I need to try some Gamo pellets too.. some are meant to be very good!
The Gamo hollow points are the same pellet as the Daisy.
Looks a bargain at that price, and using those BSA Gold Star ammo, those result's were impressive in that wind too. Great review as always Dan and thanks for sharing..
Thanks Baz!
The Goldstars are essentially rebranded FTT's and they usually shoot bloody well. It's a great little rifle for that money and definitely gives the PR900 some serious competition.
Imagine for a moment Crosman had put AR buffer tube compatible moulding aft and supplied the gun with a cheap AR butt. Perhaps even something that could be adjusted for length of pull? And perhaps even a cheap AR handgrip too. It wouldn't have added much to the price.
Hey Clanger!
I agree but it'd have to be a good adjustable buttpad. My only concern would be that being a budget rifle the butt may end up being wobbly like some of the Krals at which point I'd rather have a solid stock.
If they got it right though it'd be a superb little package.
@@bigdansairguns83 Yep. I think there is a market there for it. Something more accessible than that Air Arms S510 Tactical or the plethera of foreign tacticool guns.
Looks like a Bushmaster 😉
@@andystagger2906 ☺
Another cracking review mate, and for the price i would say it would be really hard to beat, and would make a great pest/ratting rifle, Cheers mate 👌👌👌👍👍👍👍👍👍
Thanks Casper!
That's a sweet rifle! Has everything going for it.
Hey Jeffrey!
To top it all off for a PCP it costs peanuts.
@@bigdansairguns83 If I can get it in the UK, it might become my last air rifle. Never had a PCP gun before. Time to move away from springers 👍
Great shooting Dan, and what a great bargain g
PCP!
Thanks Paul! Despite the weather she shot very well and even the little trigger can be made far better just with a minute or so of adjustments. It's a cracking little gun.
Goldstars .. very impressive ... tried em in .22 and were very good , but strangely enough , I never got round to trying them in .177 ... dunno why , I think im in the QYS fan club at the moment , though H&N have some really good pellets out there now , at one time ( but a few years back ) I wouldn't have given a dogs fart for a tin ... anyway , as far as budget guns go , yes , its a bit of a bargain .. but as far as price goes , where does " budget END , and mid price START ... id say £270 is well in the budget category though ... up to the individual I guess where the cost parameters lay ... twas a damn good review , as I've got used to expect .. think if I did buy this rifle , I'd take that sight thing off the end ..
Hey Mark!
It's a great little shooter isn't it? The sad thing is I've heard people say that £1000+ rifles are "mid priced".
Mid priced?!
That still makes me wince spending £1000 on an airgun and I stock some of them!
Good competitor to the Gamo/BSA GR 40. I'd choose the Gamo if only because it's British built (mostly) rather than a Chinese rebrand.
I do like the little Gamo PCP's. A shoot off between both could be interesting.
When it leads in it will be very nice. Nice fair review Dan 👍
Thanks Jeff! Interesting little thing isn't it and a great rival to the PR900.
There is a stock for this which highly improved the riffle the company is Buckrail-line
Sorry, I'm a bit late to this party but, I've been looking for a budget pcp for some pest control work. I'd like it to be able to take a bipod, but notice this has no 6 o'clock pic rail to it.
Would it be a relatively simple task to retro fit a pic rail to it?
Nice to not Wait till Christmas for Another Video mate. 🤔🤔🤔🤣🤣🤣🤣
Naaah that'll be for our next video.
Hey don't don't dis dans video are how I keep track of the seasons
Any chance you can review ZBROIA Hortitsia Mk3 with side lever and strip mag
Hi Roadrat!
I'd love to have a go at one but sadly I don't think there's a UK importer at the moment.
@@bigdansairguns83 Apparently it is Ammotec but they are restricting the number of dealerships at the moment
So wanted one these as love my Crossman 2240 and 2260 so love a pcp but bought a beeman cheif just before this was released think might have to you a call for one
I'm always here to help Ashley. If you can't get through to us via the phone number ping us an email and I'll help any way I can.
@@bigdansairguns83 thank you your legend inspired me to start my on channel in the summer
@@Theshropshireratter Brilliant stuff Ashley let me know when you've put your first video on and I'll subscribe.
Think you underestimated yourself mate. That was superb shooting, especially with a springer!
😎👍
Hey JPF!
This is a PCP my man! If you really want to see some lucky shooting take a look at our 100 yards video.
Why not have just waited to give each pellet a much fairer opportunity, instead of rushing on a crazy wind day?
Hi Joe.
That's because with my schedule it's difficult to get time to review on top of everything else and I'd already put the review off for long enough. It's a tricky balancing act as you can't put people off for seeing us just for filming which means at times the review gets compromised a tad.
Looks pretty accurate 🙂👍
For a budget rifle it was superb and considering the conditions too. Great little bit of kit!
Test them with the crone and it may show the flyers.
nice review
Thanks Stonie!
This action looks like the remington air cobra in a different stock
I can't argue with the man can I?
Magazine looks like a Beeman unit ?
Not bad gun man nice con from Ireland 🇮🇪
It's genuinely a nice little shooter, it's just such a shame the wind messed us up that was atrocious.
How to buy the air gun
Hi Ferdinand.
Contact us at bigdansairguns.co.uk and I'm sure we'll get you sorted.
All the best.
Dan.
Made in America? It looks like another Chinese clone of the Dina Stormrider platform.
Hey Anthony.
Not made in America I believe it's actually based off of the Beeman Chief platform. The block is almost like for like.
That said the Crosman trigger is better than that on the Chief by a wide margin.
The Diana Stormrider itself is a badge swapped SMK PR900.
That’s needs a Turkish Tinkerer
Or a Chinese Chooner!😅
AMERICA!!! (made in china)
Hahaha yep! But it says Liberty on the box which makes it 60% more American.