Daisy's have progressively gone to lower & lower power over the years.
I remember when the Model 25 Pump back in the day, would put a BB through one side of a real tin bean can and dent the other side.
And took two men and a boy to pump it.
The Red Rider was a distant second place, but still pretty powerful.
I got a chance to play with a new Chinese Model 25 a couple years ago, and the best it would do is put dents in one side of tin can.
I have a 30+ year old Red Ryder hanging in the garage that the two kids probably put 20,000+ BB's through 30-35 years ago.
And it still has more power then a new one a friend bought a few years ago.
It's not Chinese manufacture that caused it either.
It was probably lawsuits from people shooting their eye out in modern times with the old 'full-power' Daisy BB guns they made 40-50+ years ago.
BTW: If you want a hard shooting Daisy BB gun, I think the Model 25 Pump is still the best bet.
And it has 100% positive feed due to a actual spring loaded 50-shot BB magazine you have to take out to load.
See this about that:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daisy_Model_25
rc