Yesterday, a 1960's vintage Diana 27 with great wood, original sights and some surface rust sold on gunbroker.com for $36.01 with only 5 bids.
Even with $13.00 for shipping, that was a good deal.

but deals like that are a hassle to get Into Canada , with all the paperwork and red tape .
But Our American buddies just have to pay for it and give an address ..for the most part .

Regards ,
Frank

If I hadn't gotten tied up in a small crisis at work...that sucker would have been MINE!

The action looked like late 60's/early 70's vintage, with plastic rear sights and cocking link keeper screw, and wasn't in very good shape (very rusty...the thing that held the price down, no doubt).

But the stock was an earlier finger-groove-fore end style and looked darn good. Possibly a transitional model, or a mix of parts. But anyway, it was sure as heck worth more than 36 bucks. C'est la vie.

I was going to bid on it also but the guys E-mail address was no good so I decided to let it go. Your right tho, that was a good price. I just hope the inside of the barrel didn't look like the outside. Bad barrel or not the wood was worth more than the selling price. I guess we have to spread the good deals around.
Chris

.....along with the 30. Decided against it though. By the time I'd end up restoring it I'd have more in it than if I just wait for one in better condtiton & pay more.

K

Me too! The model 30 is seldom seen so I was tempted, but having no metalworking skills to speak of, I figgered it was a bit too far gone for me. But I did want the darn 27.

Same seller had a Haenel 310 that was by far the best of the three condition-wise, and it also went cheap. That's the one I probably SHOULD have gone for.

.....so I didn't consider it. It's hard to tell for sure, but if the outside of the gun is as gone as those were I just had to wonder what they looked like inside.

Another day.

Knobs

Knobs, the 310 is a modern descendant of the prewar Haenel model 33 Mauser trainer. Technically speaking, it is a BB gun, shooting 4.4mm lead balls. It has a bolt handle sticking out the right side which hinges up, then moves back in a slot on top of the receiver.

You load the balls by stacking them in a removable "clip," (6, 8, and 12-shot ones were made) which sticks into the front of the fore end. The gun has a true repeating action, i.e. you cock it and load a ball each time the bolt is operated. The 310 has a big automatic push-in safety at the rear of the receiver; earlier Haenels had a Mauser-like "wing" safety.

They shoot in the 400 fps neighborhood, are stout, accurate, reliable, and really fun to use.

Man, those old boys looked rough! I have found that such guns, be they air or powder burners, are seldom bargains. They are like the old cars you used to see sitting in the middle of a farm field, under a tree. Wow, a 1935 Packard for only $100!!! And not enough left of it to use for parts. Mike, was the 30 a precursor to the 50? Looked like a tap loader.

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