Page 5 - Diana 350 Magnum Premium Reviews

Shooting dime sized groups at 35 yards with lest than 50 rounds put through it. Great rifle, great price.

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If you are looking for a quality air rifle right out of the box this is one to consider.

This is simply a fantastic air rifle. Incredibly well crafted, with flawless bluing, quality control and attention to detail. Excellent power and accuracy. Beautiful wood stock, smooth cocking action, adjustable sights and good trigger. Represents a great value for the money and I would encourage you to pick one up today.

Honestly can't think of any way to improve on this gun - its great for what it is.

Best warranty in the business too - limited lifetime so you can't lose

The gun is very accurate and powerful.

Plastic safety

Best bang for the buck!

Very high quality. Extremly accurate once you find the right pellets for the gun. Fun to shoot and plenty of power.

Would be nice if gun could be made lighter and keep accuracy.

Dont believe any thing you read saying these high powered springers need heavy pellets. Use only Benjamin 14.3 grain hollow points. I have tried all weights and types of pellets through this gun. It will kill small game (squirles, tree rats, and birds at 100yds with the right scope and skill. I have over 30 rifles and this is my favorite to shoot. Recomend Leapers 3-9x50.

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I have barely shot this rifle and using mildots on my scope hitting at 150 feet already. Once the weather warms up and i have the summer to really shoot ill do another review.

whats not to like even the price was right

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buy it shoot it and love it

Excellent feel, beautiful stock and bluing. The quality on this rifle is second to none and RWS just got a customer for life. I am very impressed.

Perhaps some color on the sights, kinda hard to see open sites if your target is in the shadebut nothing a scope cannot fix. Coming soon after break in.

If you need a powerful, accurate springer with high quality and great balance then look no further. Cal.177 was a good choice for me at 5000 ft altitude and the heavier pellets (CPH and JSB Diabolo) have been great. Buy this rifle, you will not be disappointed.

Heavy gun, feels like a high quality firearm. Blueing finish on steel barrel is first rate. Trigger is much better than I expected.

I would like a dedicated owners manual for this exact model instead of a manual for 3 different guns.

Gun requires a strong man to cock the mechanism, this gun is not for a very young or elderly person.

Very accurate, the quality is unmatched, and it's very powerful. You have to practice shooting it because of the recoil. Remember to get a scope mount with more than three set screws, and a scope that can take a pounding (You get what you pay for!).!!

Because of the weight, I'd add a sling, or recommend a decent one.

This gun has a serious recoil, it needs a good scope mount, and the quality is unmatched. This is an expensive once in a lifetime gun.

First of all, the first 350 Magnum I received through Fed Express arrive with the outer container intact but the inner box holding the rifle was packed with very little support. As a result of the poor packing, the rifle arrived with the muzzle end poking out of the RWS Box. No problem, Pyramyd Air sent a call ticket and made sure I received a new rifle. Again, the packing was less that desireable, but the rifle arrived intact. If I had to order the rifle again, I would invest in a rifle case to better protect the weapon. What a perfect work of art! The rifle is wonderful to look at and shooting with is is a dream come true! Fantastic Power. The trigger is smooth as glass, it does take a good amount of strength to cock, but the power you achieve is well worth the effort. The rifle is heavy, but the weight does help with dampening the recoil and helps with accuracy.

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Traditional Diana RWS high-quality materials, design and construction. Powerful and accurate. Scope mounting rail securely attached to receiver, rather than machined into the receiver. A UTG Weaver droop-compensating mounting rail (bought separately), allows easy mounting and dismounting of any high-quality rifle scope without laborious re-sighting after initial sighting-in. Nice stock, good "feel" to the airgun.

For a rifle with the capabilities of this one, a high-quality dual-adjustment (pretravel and pull force) trigger is appropriate. The R06 trigger "meets minimum requirements", but is not as high-quality as the rest of the gun itself, or of the earlier RWS triggers. I'm shopping for a more professional-quality target trigger.

This gun, like all high-power airguns, MUST be used with high-quality pellets to obtain its maximum accuracy. With my .177 Model of this airgun I regularly obtain dime-sized 10-shot groups @ 25 yds from a bench rest, using the heavy Crosman Premier pellets right out of the can. If you presort (by weight) and size the pellets, you can improve on this.

Unfortunately, the current .22 Crosman Premier pellets appear to lack the consistency of the .177. I found a noticeable variation in the insertion characteristics of the .22 pellets, and my best 10-shot, 25-yd bench-rest groups at this caliber so far have been around 1.5" diameter, with occasional "flyers" out to 3" diameter. I plan to investigate some allegedly higher-quality pellets, and to do some test-sorting of the off-the-shelf Crosman Premiers. I smell 3rd-world manufacturing somewhere!

Shoots tacks at 50 yrds. Quality is unsurpassed and the stock is beautiful.

The cocking effort seemed much more than 33# and the weight difference between it and my model 36 was out of my comfort zone. I returned product to the seller.

I will still give the 350 magnum a top rating, for I am sure people of a larger stature (I am only 5':5" and about 150# and at 66 it was just too hard to steady)would have no problem with the extra weight.

Fantastic bluing, INCREDIBLE trigger (consequently it can be SCARY light like mine), but is the smoothest most butteriest, breaks-like-glass and is as predictable as any 2 stage adjustable trigger I have used. Fit and finish of wood is on par with some firearms, if not better than most. The availability of an 11mm dovetail front sight for use of some globe sights is a nice feature for shooters like myself, that LOVE peep sights. VERY heavy, but this is an advantage when using the artillery hold. Pushes any pellet I've used, even some custom poured BoarHog pellets made by Hurricane, proprieter of AirgunSpace dot calm. Squishy butt stock pad. :) This rifles accuracy is spot on at all distances I use for hunting, out to 50yds to edge of property. Headshots are easily achieved.

It's a springer, need I say more? It's a springer. The only improvement beyond a GAS spring is to make this a PCP, which I will discuss more below. Why have 2 positions for rear sights? Sometimes too many options is just overkill. Scoop the area on the trigger to fit a finger, just a preference really. Adjust the angle of the grip so its a bit more vertical, moving towards a pistol grip. The angle it is at now is uncomfortable for me as it forces me to torque my wrist at a strange angle. Today's magnum springers are hard on scopes, it seems to me that they should have weaver attachments. Yes they are more expensive, but the cost is negated by reducing scope creep nearly 100%. 11mm dovetails just don't cut against a heavy springer even with scope stop screws.

Despite my low scores and somewhat critical "springer" complaint, this gun is awesome.... for a springer. I say this because PCP's are the way of the future, and even then, gas springs are far more efficient and last longer than spring coils, which the 350 Mag is, a spring coil. My low marks for value is simple: you can get an awesome PCP for the same price and NEVER have to worry about spring recoil, fatigue, torsion, barrel droop and cocking effort, that and I scored mine at a pawn shop for $125.

FINAL REVIEW: It is a VERY nice and well made rifle. Should you be put off or priced out by the initial cost of PCP's, then this rifle is a fantastic choice for the discerning small game hunter. You will NOT be disappointed with this rifle, I most definitely am not, but when you compare it next to a PCP it just can't shine as brightly. Regardless, this is a permanent addition to my airgun collection and I have no intentions of selling it. Oh yeah, it's made in Germany, you know those Germans make good stuff... like shamwow and beer.

Quality of the stock was great.

Cheap sights and accuracy problems.

I thought the gun was gonna be a dream to shoot. I was very unhappy with the accuracy of the 350 magnum.

The RWS 350mag is a superior air rifle. I purchased one years ago from Pyramyd but I didnt have the luxury of the T06 trigger mech. I kind of feel that those who have already purchased the rifle should be eligible somehow for upgrades on the model. Maybe at a reasonable price.

The trigger and power make this gun nice. I thought it was too light in weight, and my guns mechanism rubbed the stock when cocking, making it feel very rough.

The sights are terrible for a gun this expensive. Quality control must not be good either, as anyone cocking this gun one time would be able to tell it was rubbing. I was able to fix the rub by chiseling out the wood inside the stock, but in the process the barrel dropped and the rear sight broke off. Pyramyd offered to take it back, but I have kept it and modified fiber optic sights from Gamo to fit. Now you can see what you are supposed to be shooting at.

Better be putting a scope on this or you won't be happy.

This is a good looking gun. Quality is very good throughout. Bluing and engravign on the tube is very nuce quality. Wood is some of the nicest non-walnut I've seen. Trigger is decent if not a bit heavy. I like the precise sight picture on the open sights. Accuracy is very good (I'm shooting only open sights right now.) This thing will explode(!) a chicken agg over a 15' circle from 50' :-)

As with most air rifles, FPS specs are exadurated. I'm getting 1055 FPS with 8.2gr pellets. 975 with some old 9.8 gr domed. Scope rail should be a Weaver given the stiffer recoil. A gas ram version would be sweet!

You'll need to feed it heavier pellets to keep it subsonic/quiet. Heavier pellets can be hard to find locally. ( Buy a 1250ct box of CPH!) Shoots better with the heavier pellet anyhway. The size and weight of this gun make it a "less than best" choice for woods walking ( Especially without a sling.). Between that and the heavy cocking effort, it will wear you out :-)
I think the gun would be better in .20 or .22 despite extra pellet cost.

The accuracy, the crisp trigger, the iron sights

This air rifle is deadly and accurate. Standind free hand shooting at forty yards I am hitting 3" groups. From a leaning rest, I was shooting 5" groups at 80 yards with iron sights! Used the 14.5 gr RWS Superdome. I took a bird, standing free hand, at 25 yards. An instant kill, but the pelet had so much force that it stamped a dime size hole clean and the bird fell forward!!! Amazing power. Deadly accuracy.

The quality of this rifle is amazing. It feels like my deer rifle which is good for practice. Accuracy is pretty darn good too. Shot multiple starlings at 40 yards and beyond. Power is scary.

not much tighten up groups a little bit. I wish it werent hold sensative, still getting used to it. When hunting the barrel cant be cocked for too long it will cause spring fatigue.

if you want a good quality air rifle, take a good look at this one. Good accuracy and great for hunting. Make sure you get a good scope, the recoil is pretty heavy for an air rifle.

This is an excellent hard hitting gun. it is very well built and has a beautiful stock and bluing. This is heavy gun to carry for a long period of time. I mounted a Nikon 3-9 x 50mm scope and it is extremely accurate. I am very happy with this gun and the TO6 trigger is smooth as silk. This gun is well worth the money.

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