Daisy Model 880 variation and Daisy dating info

[cobalt327]

HERE is info on some of the changes made to the 880 and approximately when they came about. There's gaps that will be filled as I find more info. Besides the members at the Daisy Talk forum being a good bunch of folks, I'm using Daisy Talk because I expect to be adding info for quite some time and there's no time limit to editing there. Thanks to everyone who took the time to answer questions about their 880s- without you this would not have been possible.

HERE is a link to a second thread with info on using the REG. and LOT NO.s for dating a Daisy.

If anyone has anything they'd like to add, feel free to post it or PM me.

[wll2506]

Just saved all your info to my desk top .. great valuable Daisy 880 info.

Also my year 2004 880 that had one stock screw has a flat piston ... when did the flat pistons stop and the new style begin ? Also the butt plate says Daisy .. not Powerline or Powerking ?

Thank you very much.

Should be a sticky !!

wll

[cobalt327]

Thanks

Info on internal differences and changes made to the 880 has been a bit hard to come by. I actually omitted the internal info for that reason- the sample population is so scant that there's several years between the differences, which makes the info a lot less useful. Hopefully I will get enough info to fill in the gaps enough to make it worthwhile.

For the flat top piston question, I have the following (have added your gun to it):

• 1982 May LOT NO. E217995 has flat top, as-cast piston, brass tube
• 1995-’96 flat top
• 1998 Nov. (plastic receiver) LOT NO 1198 13850 has machined flat top piston
• 2004 has a flat top piston
• 2013 S/N 162013732814U Chinese production is as-cast w/notch

So sometime between 2004 and 2013 the pistons got a dish. That's a 9 year gap! haha