I recently purchased this combo package from AOA. I believe that it is exclusive to them. The combo consist of the Diana rifle, a 3-9x40 Diana scope with front A/O, an RWS "Bulleye" scope mount, and a very nice gun case for $429.00
The rifle has an adjustable cheek piece, which I found to be very nice for getting a good cheek weld, esp. with the Bulleye mount which mounts the scope pretty high. The date stamped on the barrel of the rifle I got was 2017, which I found a little surprising. The trigger is excellent. The rifle is accurate, and shot 1" groups at 50 yards right out of the box using cheap Daisy hollow-point pellets, which so far seem to be it's favorite. It may do better with high-end pellets, but I am frugal and don't like to spend more than .02 per shot on ammo.
The scope is Ok. the duplex reticle has fine simple duplex crosshairs, no holdover dots or anything. Clarity is OK, repeatability seems OK as well.
The Bullseye mount that I got says it is a second generation...not sure when they made any changes but the one I got has none of the play in the slide mechanism that seems to be a common criticism of this mount. In fact I had to lap it in a bit to get it t return to its resting position consistently. The supplied hardware is very soft, and I striped the rear bolt out with very little torque. The supplied bolts are about 9MM long. I replaced the rear bolt with a 16MM long one from my local hardware store, which Is what RWS should have done from the factory. This mount has barrel drop compensation built into the design, which is where I ran into a problem.
The rifle I got is not compatible with a drooper mount. Even with the scope dialed all the way down, it was shooting 10-12" high at 50 yards. I swapped the mount and scope with a UTG mount w/o the drop compensation feature and mounted a Bushnell AR series 4-12 scope, and it shoots well at 50 and in the middle of the scopes adjustment range. I put the Bullseye mount and Diana scope on an older RWS 24 and it seems happy on that gun, so I wasn't out anything.
Long story short is that I feel this combo is a good value if you have a use for the scope and mount, but my experience is that it didn't' work well as a package due to the drooper mount being incompatible with the rifle. The UTG mount is not expensive to fix the problem, but unless you have use for a recoil absorbing drooper mount you can probably do as well or better by buying the rifle alone and picking your own glass and mount. You would be giving up the adjustable cheek piece, which I personally found value in, but YMMV.
The rifle has an adjustable cheek piece, which I found to be very nice for getting a good cheek weld, esp. with the Bulleye mount which mounts the scope pretty high. The date stamped on the barrel of the rifle I got was 2017, which I found a little surprising. The trigger is excellent. The rifle is accurate, and shot 1" groups at 50 yards right out of the box using cheap Daisy hollow-point pellets, which so far seem to be it's favorite. It may do better with high-end pellets, but I am frugal and don't like to spend more than .02 per shot on ammo.
The scope is Ok. the duplex reticle has fine simple duplex crosshairs, no holdover dots or anything. Clarity is OK, repeatability seems OK as well.
The Bullseye mount that I got says it is a second generation...not sure when they made any changes but the one I got has none of the play in the slide mechanism that seems to be a common criticism of this mount. In fact I had to lap it in a bit to get it t return to its resting position consistently. The supplied hardware is very soft, and I striped the rear bolt out with very little torque. The supplied bolts are about 9MM long. I replaced the rear bolt with a 16MM long one from my local hardware store, which Is what RWS should have done from the factory. This mount has barrel drop compensation built into the design, which is where I ran into a problem.
The rifle I got is not compatible with a drooper mount. Even with the scope dialed all the way down, it was shooting 10-12" high at 50 yards. I swapped the mount and scope with a UTG mount w/o the drop compensation feature and mounted a Bushnell AR series 4-12 scope, and it shoots well at 50 and in the middle of the scopes adjustment range. I put the Bullseye mount and Diana scope on an older RWS 24 and it seems happy on that gun, so I wasn't out anything.
Long story short is that I feel this combo is a good value if you have a use for the scope and mount, but my experience is that it didn't' work well as a package due to the drooper mount being incompatible with the rifle. The UTG mount is not expensive to fix the problem, but unless you have use for a recoil absorbing drooper mount you can probably do as well or better by buying the rifle alone and picking your own glass and mount. You would be giving up the adjustable cheek piece, which I personally found value in, but YMMV.
