Customer Reviews

Daisy Outdoor Products 25 ct. CO2 (Silver, 12 gm)

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I had an opportunity to compare Crosman and Daisy brand CO2 powerlets side by side. Daisy is better in some ways, Crosman in others.** see update below**

Here is what I found:

Amount of CO2 inside: Crosman = 12.33 grams; Daisy 11.60 grams

Length of powerlet: Crosman 3.261 +/- 0.010 inches; Daisy 3.273 +/- 0.004 inches (+/- is one standard deviation)
Price: equivalent

Amount of CO2: advantage Crosman, about 6% more CO2 per powerlet

Length: advantage Daisy. For most applications, this parameter is not very critical. However, I used the powerlets in a Hammerli 850 adapter, where two powerlets fit back to back. It turns out that to get reliable punching on both powerlets, the powerlet dimensions must be well controlled. The Daisy powerlets are slightly longer and much more consistent in length. For the Hammerli adapter, it makes the difference between reliable punching and unreliable punching.

Price: equivalent.

Keep in mind that I was only comparing one batch of each brand. The batches were large (~25 samples of each), but other batches might be different.
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** Update, several months later:

I've had occasion to test additional batches of both Crosman and Daisy powerlets. In the second batches, it was the Daisy brand that has slightly under 12 grams of CO2, and Crosmans that had slightly more. The difference in length was still there, but only a few thousanths of an inch this time.

New bottom line is that I now think both brands are essentially equivalent in all respects.

Before you buy CO2, do the math and figure out the price. Performance-wise, they're all the same, so you can buy purely on price. For whatever reason, this 25-pack of Daisy was a better buy than the 40-pack of Crosman at the time I bought.

One thing worth mentioning is that the box is kind of thin and cheap. Amazon didn't pack these well for me, so they were all loose in the much larger box, clinking merrily around. No harm done, but kind of irritating.

This is a solid buy. I recommend it if you have CO2 guns.

These are your typical CO2 cartridges, used by air-guns and the like. I bought these solely based on the value they provided, given the cheap price. I have no complaints about the actual product, and the performance seems to be on par with every other C02 cartridge I've tried.

If there is one thing Daisy could improve upon, it's the packaging. When the box from Amazon was delivered, I picked it up and immediately heard a unsettling rattling sound coming from inside the Amazon shipping box. Upon opening the Amazon box, I discovered the Daisy box inside had come open, spilling all 25 CO2 cartridges throughout the large shipping box. Fortunately, all 25 cartridges were in the larger Amazon box, and I just had to re-pack the Daisy box with the CO2 cartridges. The fix? About 2 cents of tape over the top of the Daisy box. Unbelievably, there is *nothing* keeping the Daisy box shut the way it ships from Amazon. A simple, small piece of tape over the lid would have prevented this.

Regardless, these are a good value, and I'd have no problem recommending them, as long as you are prepared to potentially play a game of "25 pick-up" when your Amazon box arrives...

OK, so the product is good, not much else to say about that, it's CO2 canisters. Nice and shiny and compressed!

What surprised me was when I got it at my door. I had ordered several things at this point in time, and this item came in a box about 5x too big for it, so that threw me off what it was at first. What threw me off secondly was when I picked up the box it sounded like a horribly broken machine of some sort! I was like WTF did UPS destroy today?! Apparently, the brown paper filler in the large box wasn't enough to stop it from spilling the CO2 canisters all over the box, since it looked like UPS drop kicked the package, it exploded the inner retail box it came in. In the end the canisters were not damaged, they were just rolling and falling all around in the larger shipping box and made a lot of noise and had me very worried about what totally broken item I had just received up until I opened the package!

I use these to inflate my tubes when I get a flat. Much cheaper then the ones sold in bike shops.

These Daisy Co2 cartridges take about 5 days to deliver, but it's worth it. These cartridges won't let you down. I have a KWC Desert Eagle and though this gun guzzles down a lot of co2, it still lasts about 80 or so shots, and it is a blowback gun, so any other co2 gun can probably use about 150 shots for each cartridge. The shots are very deadly and these cartridges are very recommended! - Randy

I opened it and realized that all of the co2 carts got out of the "daisy" box, just rattling against eachother. poor packaging, but i checked them. Not one had went off in the box.

Just purchased these and so far 4 of the cartridges have been empty, Also several of the ones that werent empty did not seat well in the gun. Previously I purchased the Crosman cartridges with no problems at all, looks like ill be going back to them.

it seems to go on and on. ive shot like a hundred bbs before the power started to fade. i got the 25 count and i think i got a long time of enjoying plinking and target shooting.

Not sure if these are good or not because I never got them. I gave them 4 stars because Daisy is a good product. Don't order these from Amazon because they say they are in stock when they aren't. They're on back order. This has happened to me a handful of times when ordering directly through Amazon and not from an outside vendor. I mean how hard is it to put "not available" or "on back order" or "currently not in stock"...anything!? ...or maybe even email the customer informing them they're on backorder and that you might be waiting a long loooong time for them and then wait some more. Anyway from now on I will still use Amazon because they have no other direct competitors (sigh) but I will avoid ordering anything directly from them. Guess this is what happens when you corner a market...your standards that made you great at the beginning start to slip.