 You know Matt, I don't really feel like filming the day. Let's uh, what do you think about going day drinking dead sounds amazing? All right. Well, let's get ready to go. All right. No, no, we can do it right here Dude Nice do you have a chaser? Cool That'll work. So the chaser was announced in 2018 at shot show guys We saw it there very interesting little gun caught my eye for sure We have the 22 caliber available here that we are going to be reviewing for you guys both in the pistol and rifle Configuration, but it's also offered in 1 7 7 so you have the ability to choose But the chaser as a whole guys really interesting offering into Diana's action line now that is they're more cost-friendly Kind of entry level line if you will the storm rider falls on that line as well now these guns are made in China Diana doesn't try and hide that fact guys. These are you know, not something that you are going to get for the price point If it was made in Germany so starting with the chaser pistol guys, this is how it comes right out of the box Ready to go. So you have your fixed front post site you have an adjustable rear sight so fully adjustable for windage and elevation Of course, you do have a rifled barrel on this guy You have your co2 storage cylinder down here your piercing cap here Which will show you how that works in just a minute and then on the left hand side of the action You have your bolt action now This is a bigger bolt than what we see on the storm rider the gen 2 storm riders are actually coming with this So this is nice gives you a lot more purchase on that bolt and it's a very easy bolt action To get back there nice and smooth and then we do have also our single shot tray This is again same thing as the storm rider here So if you lose it, they're readily available But you can slide it out and pop in a seven round magazine here in 22 again The same magazines as the storm rider uses so you're starting to see guys There's a theme here of interchangeable parts within this action line that Diana has out and it's really nice The ability to have those parts readily available and the fact they work for multiple guns is a huge plus in my book And obviously the fact that it is multi-shot capable is a big plus as well taking a look at the trigger guys This is what Diana calls their DIT trigger or Diana improved trigger Improved over what I don't know because this is the first version. We've seen here of the chaser in the US That said the one gripe I will tell you right off the bat just looking over the pistol I have is that the safety is on the trigger you can kind of see the red ring there So, you know, it's hot and ready to go now if it was cocked So you press that little button on through there and that renders the trigger safe Can't pull it doesn't go anywhere and then you can just pop it on through you get that red ring again And you're good to go given it a try here It's not too bad. There's a little bit of take up, but not a very heavy trigger So pretty impressed with that just off that first initial feel talking about some of the other features here You'll notice that you have this kind of thumb screw here on the bottom of the grip So we are gonna take that off now. This is a really unique feature The chaser rifle kit actually comes with a buttstock that you can attach here And we'll show you guys how to assemble all that when we get there But the nice thing about this is that you can carry a spare co2 cartridge in the buttstock of the grip Which is awesome As you guys probably know if you've watched some of our videos. I like the little things It's the little details that make me like a gun and they nailed this All right guys, so let's talk about how to load co2 into this guy real quick I'm gonna put the gun on safe here and I'm gonna go ahead and take off the piercing cap As I do that I do want to point out to you guys that you do have this open port here on the side You can do that because the co2 has actually held captive on the seal So it's not flooding the cylinder and creating you know a actual co2 filled cylinder And that's actually nice for a couple reasons makes it a lot easier to degas as well You don't have to shoot it down. You can actually just bleed it out But you will always know if you have a co2 cartridge in the gun So if you get it out of storage or something like that and maybe it had co2 in it You forgot to take it out before you put it away. That's nice to know So now to go ahead and pierce it This is pretty easy to do guys, but I do want to point you to one thing on the end of the piercing cap There's this little knurled screw that you pull out now. This is there to help you tighten this down So once we get it kind of started there so I can get a little bit more leverage on it I just go ahead and put that screw right in the end of the hole on the piercing cap And then I can really start to turn It's a lot easier with that on there and I just heard it go guys So we are now ready to roll with co2 and I can just slide that back in the front This will also help you take it off if you need to you know If you have to let some co2 out if you have a little bit left over before putting it away for storage So now that we have the pistol all loaded with co2 and ready to go You're lucky day-to-day We are going to be testing both the pistol and the rifle version side by side But first have to show you how to put the rifle configuration together So let's take a look at that when you get the rifle set up. It's a kit Okay, so it comes as the pistol time to convert it to the rifle So you can run it either way you can kind of run it in between as well It's there's a few unique things you can do with this set up You could run it, you know with the pistol barrel and the buttstock lots of stuff you could do so First things first. I like to start with assembling the buttstock because it's really easy to do So we just take out that screw again Slide off that back strap and then we take our buttstock looks just like this You can throw your extra co2 in there if you want to you don't have to of course and it just kind of fits right on in there Nice and easy goes together like that and then you simply replace your screw at the bottom And now you kind of have your carbine configuration before we go full rifle We're gonna go ahead and switch out the pistol barrel for the rifle barrel now I've already pre loosened these two screws here. You don't have to remove them fully You just have to get that tension off the barrel But you do have to fully remove this middle screw here and I'll show you why in just a second But of course guys before you ever work on your gun before you start removing parts or anything You always want to make sure there's no co2 in it and with that little window I can verify There's no co2 in it the guns on safe, and I'm ready to do work So once we have that middle screw removed guys we can go ahead and pull our barrel right out now I have heard some reports of these being very tight So you may have to lock this guy in a vise and actually pull it you know apart from the rifle But just make sure you're not going to do any damage to the barrel shouldn't be that difficult to do Next step we are going to install the barrel band onto the gun now a couple things about the barrel band here You'll notice it does have a rear sight blade on it And that is obviously to replace this sight because once you throw that longer barrel on there This is going to be way too close to your eye to get a solid sight picture So you do have that sight it is removable just like the storm rider sight if you don't want it there You want to mount a scope and also really cool another little small feature that they nailed on this one You have a little picatinny section under here if you want to mount a bipod a light a laser whatever you guys want That's right there, which is an awesome little add-on We're just going to slide that guy over now We're not going to tighten it down just yet because we got to make sure that we have it aligned properly with the barrel So the next thing we're going to do is take our barrel and slide it through the top portion Kind of line things up on the back end now I like to do this with the bolt closed guys to make sure that everything is seating properly that the bolts going into the Barrel and then I'm not going to have any issues You know once I try to close the bolt after I get everything installed So once I have that done I can kind of manipulate the barrel band to the position I want it to be in right here is fine for me. So I am going to take this I'm going to take our larger allen key that comes with the gun I'm just going to tighten down this set screw here to set this guy in place All right, so once the barrel band is tightened up We can go ahead and cinch our screws in for our barrel back down now again You want to make sure that that indent that indexing point on the barrel is properly aligned with that center hole And then go ahead and get your center screw back started Make sure that one's nice and tight. That's the important one That's what's doing the bulk of the work retaining that barrel Once you have that locked in go ahead and do the front in the back Once we get those screws nice and tight guys You just want to make sure that your bolt is moving through and into the barrel and seating down into that retention slot right here Nice and solid that you're not getting any you know slop or difficulty pushing it forward Very important the last thing we do need to show you guys how to do guys is removing the pistol rear sight So to get the rear sight the pistol rear sight off of the gun You are going to need a flathead screwdriver and a Phillips head now I have one that kind of flips around so I have both So that'll work out nicely So we're just going to go ahead and remove the flathead screw in the top of the site Now I'm holding this guy down and the reason I'm doing that is because it's there's a nice spring under there that keeps it under tension So I'm going to carefully remove that spring as well. I'm going to flip this guy over to the Phillips head side I'm going to remove the front screw and then flip that up again And there's another screw right underneath it here And your sight just comes right off, but now you are ready to go ready to shoot this thing We're going to throw a co2 cartridge in it and head out to the range Guys just the initial feel with this. It's a very lightweight package like two pounds The rifle configuration is the one I was excited about personally And I love the fact that the bolt is on the left hand side of the gun here It makes it really easy to cycle if you threw that storm rider magazine in this thing You're going to have follow-up shots super quick. You're just going to be bang Bang right there very easy to operate. Let's go see if she shoots one last thing I should mention guys before we head out to the range both guns do come with a soft case So you have a slightly smaller one for the pistol and this larger one for the rifle They do have a nice inside pocket here that unzips that you can hold your parts in although for the rifle version guys You'll notice It's not going to quite fit even if you did pull the butt stock off with that longer barrel and suppressor on there It's not going to fit all by itself So if you do want to keep it as a rifle definitely going to need another case But if you're looking to keep the pistol and all the parts in something comes with it. So that's a nice little feature as well All right guys So we did all of our accuracy work for both the pistol with the open sights and the rifle with the red dot at 15 yards 15 yards seemed to be about the sweet spot for both guns at 10. I was doing really well You know everything sub one inch at 20 though things were opening up quite a bit and dropping off pretty extremely So we ended up finding that H&N pellets in both guns shot really well better than everything else So I have the field target trophy powers here five shots in about an inch and a quarter And then also the H&N barracuda hunter extremes with that nice kind of odd hollow point shape There again about an inch and a quarter not too bad out of the pistol platform But once we switched over to the rifle guys things shrunk up nicely So with the standard H&N field target trophies the all led non copper coated versions We had you know four shots right in about three quarters of an inch with one flying up high on me Probably my fault But the hunter extremes guys again This is definitely going to be the go-to pellet at least in these two guns that I tested Very surprised that bolt barrels seem to like this pellet Since it's so heavy and CO2 guns aren't pushing them that fast But we're gonna go ahead and chronograph this and see what kind of energy is put now Starting with our pistol over the chronograph using those very heavy 18 grain H&N barracuda hunter extremes. We got some really consistent results out of the pistol guys I was very impressed by this about six foot pounds, you know just under that four hundred foot per second mark So not a lot of velocity a decent amount of power, you know, maybe for that like really small game within ten yards It's gonna be fine for that But that standard deviation of just two feet per second and an overall extreme spread from shot one to shot like 45 of 36 feet per second I mean this gun is putting out very consistent velocity So I was really impressed by that and looking at the chaser rifle again Those same H&N barracuda hunter extremes at 18 and a half grains not as consistent Definitely see a bit of a power increase, you know our max velocity was coming right at about 440 feet per second. So you're getting a good increase overall, you know Almost a foot pound more of energy, but the consistency for whatever reason with that particular gun Was not there so the consistency we saw with the pistol phenomenal consistency with the rifle Just not quite there, but definitely a little bit of a power upgrade and obviously having that quiet factor is a big plus in my book All right guys So the Diana chaser the pistol the rifle setups here in 22 caliber perform pretty well a good shot count pretty decent power About six foot pounds out of both and that's with a very heavy pellet that 18 grain pellets something You're not gonna see a lot of co2 guns pushing, but that's what performed best for us You know the capability to upgrade this gun with you know the purchase of the magazine separately To a multi shot is huge in my opinion You know if you purchase the kit setup definitely get yourself an optic of some kind, but very easy to convert it over I would like to see that pistol barrel also coming with the suppressor as well I think that's gonna be available down the road But Diana and and snowpeak the manufacturer of the gun for Diana really hits all the boxes with this There are a lot of nice features here And and really things that are well thought out to make the gun easy to use and user friendly So I definitely want to check out here if you guys are looking for a good plinker or maybe even a good short-range pest gun Check it out here on pyramid air comm for the insider guys. I'm Tyler patterner. Hope you enjoyed the review today As always don't forget to like comment and subscribe. We'll see you guys at the next one