I decided to take out a Trailscout and see how it works. Pretty slick little rifle!
Charging: You slide one cartridge in nose first then the second the opposite way, then stick in the little piercing adapter and finally slide another in nose first. After that you tighten the end cap on with the cam lever pulled down. This allows tightening all the way without piercing the cartridge and wasting air. As you can see in the pic, the end cap has an oring on the end of the threads up against the cap outer area. This I suppose was designed to save the oring, since in contrast to a pcp, a person needs to thread the cap off quite often. So the oring never has to turn across threads like most pcp. But it also means that unlike a Qb78 they needed to keep the cartridge from piercing until the cap was completely threaded on. The Cam lever is free turning and does not help you tighten on the cap. I found out the only way I could get the cap on all the way was to use a hex key in the grub screw holes in the cap, as otherwise the oring is still exposed and will blow out on you.
This changed after switching cartridges on the second go around. It seems the oring had squished enough to allow me to tighten it right up by hand.
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Velocity: The gun was topping out in the 430's so I did a little tuning on it and was able to get it shooting where it should, in the 490's. I'll further test this with 3 cartridges to see if it tops out any higher.
Shot count: I never did do a 3 cartridge shot count, so that will have to come later. One disadvantage of this gun is that if you only want to use one cartridge you won't get that many shots, since the one cartridge will have to fill the entire tube and so much co2 ends up wasted. It will be much more efficient with three cartridges I believe. It only got around 20 shots before starting to drop, once I had tuned it up to 495fps. Remember, this is with one cartridge filling all the empty spaces in the tube. Further testing with three to come!
Noise level: The gun is nice and quiet! This comes from the design of the valve with an extremely short valve stem which means the valve closes very quickly after firing, making for an efficient and quiet gun.
Trigger: The trigger is very nice out of the box, with a nice first stage coming up to a crisp second stage without any noticeable creep. I felt it was perfect for me out of the box. The 1st and second stage are externally adjustable with a small flat screwdriver. See pics.
Incidentally, this trigger could easily be stuck in the CR600W, only needing to replace the one pin on the CR600W with two grub screws to allow the one adjustment screw to reach the sear.
Stock and weight: the synthetic gun is very nice and grippy to hold. The foregrip is quite narrow at only 1 1/4 "! The weight is very light. Without cartridges and only the end cap it is 4.6lbs. And with three full cartridge it is 4.93lbs.
With the wood stock it's weight is less at 4.73lb with 3 full cartridge. As you can see in the picture, the wood stock is a little shorter in the foregrip, which gives room for an extra barrel band, like many put on the Stormrider.
It also is a bit wider in the foregrip, which might be more comfortable for those with bigger hands.
The bolt handle is quite nice, with 2 orings on it for grip and a nice sized handle.
Magazine: the Trailscout uses the same 7 shot in 22 and 9 shot in 177 mags as the Stormrider, Bandit, and Chaser, as well as the Artemis CR600W, PP800 and CP1 guns. This is a great thing for Snowpeak/Diana gun lovers, giving you many mags to work with as you add guns to your collection. It also has a magnetic single shot tray that works great.
Next I'll shoot a 3 cartridge string and post it for you all. Overall I think this gun is a great value and one that will give plenty of enjoyment for years to come!
You can buy the synthetic version here on my site
https://airgunarcheryfun.ca/diana-trail ... 77-and-22/Also at airgunsource.ca
https://www.airgunsource.ca/us/diana-tr ... 5-fps.htmlWood stock here:
https://airgunarcheryfun.ca/diana-trail ... 77-and-22/Thanks!
Wes
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