Daisy Powerline 880 Review

Overall Rating

Ok I read a few reviews before I wrote mine and I want to give you the real review on this gun. My Brother, my friend, and I Dove / Squriell hunt with airguns, planted fields, blinds, take turns buying pellets, the whole nine yards. I bought this gun, loved it and told him to get one too, because he needed a new one before the season started. And my brother had a Crosman Pumpmaster 760 so it went like that for awhile and I got my Daisy Poweline 880 at academy and he got his at walmart. The walmart one was made of cheap thin plastic and had less screws around the chamber area, and the stock loose. Where mine had come from academy and mine was made of thicker more solid plastic and well put together and not loose. Now it cost more at academy and you always hear " if you pay more that don't mean it's better". At first I was in disbelief but it's definitely worth the Xtra money, well after a while his walmart 880 busted an "O" ring so it wouldn't hold air. Where my one that came from academy had no problems so he ended up getting a Beeman 1100 fps. heavy break-barrel gun for his birthday. It's so heavy it's hard to make a steady shot where the 880 is light and easy to hold. Yeah it's stronger but not worth the Xtra weight, especially in the field holding it up for a while and carrying it through the woods, up hills, through brush, while chaseing a squrill and geting a shot before it finds a nest and you can't see him. For the accuracy, DEAD ON! I can shoot quarter size circles, which i call " dove heads ", at 25 yards right down main street.
To sight it in, you have to do this for a dead on gun, take a piece of copy paper and draw a 3 or 4 in. circle with red marker for visability and put cross hairs in it, then put a 1/2 to 3/4 in. circle where the cross hairs meet filled in with red marker. Make a good steady shot and see where it is. Now it won't be dead on out of the box. first fix the Up/down part aka elavation. One step on the rear sight is about 1/2 to 3/4 in. Which you can raiseby lifting the rear sight and moveing the bridge. Once you get the elevation right the "v" on the rear sight can be moved from left to right by loosening the screw. If you need it to shoot more to the left then move the v slightly more to the left, same with the right. Keep working until you hit bulls eye 3 times witha very close group. If your steady the you should hit you last shot barely by expanding the hole. You'll get it.
The ammo I preferis the Gamo Raptor PBA Gold plated pellets, they increase FPS. by about 200 fps. and are very tough and don't splatter like lead, was 10.00 a can at walmart now 4.00 for some reason. My brothers pumpmaster's clip broke and you can't find them in stores so online crosman wants 40 dollars to ship it for some reason so he got the new 901, sadley my old faithful 880 broke, probably trying to do shotgun style 3 pellets at one time i tried everything to fix it, borrowing parts from my friends old 880, but i tore it up, not anything to do with the gun. Dove season opens in about a month gotta get a new one. I want to put a Tru-glo airgun globe sight on it. GREAT GUN