Is your favorite Diana airgun the Diana brand airgun you shoot the most?
Favorite means different things to different people so that's why I ask. My Diana 75 is a gas to shoot but its become a tool for me. Its also my most shot airgun period.
The Diana 46 might just become my favorite Diana but its going to have to top my Gecado (Diana) 35 by a whole lot to do it.
Warren that's a RWS scope and mount. Been shooting it with iron sights though because it's pretty accurate that way. Did pick up a RWS muzzlebrake for the 52 just in case I change my mind.
Capk3. Can't help noticing the way you have the scope mounted. It is intriguing and have some questions.
1) The screw that is always present in dianas at the end of the rail seems to be missing. The mount seems to go all the way back to the end of the rail as if the screw is not there.
2) What type of recoil stop are you using to keep it in place. What type of mount is it you have on there. It does not look like an RWS C mount.
3) If it is another mount, how does it compensate for barrel droop?
4) Looks like the scope is a bushnell 3-9 x 40 or similar?
Ricardo - the previous owner had the mount (which is adjustable for droop) all the way back on the rail as you noted. The screw on the rail was removed for this purpose I assume. The mount has a pin that stabilized the mount. This pin fits in the rearmost small hole on the rail and this acts as a scope stop of sorts. The mount was tightened down such that the assembly didn't move. That scope is an RWS brand and looks to be be much like a Bushnell. I can't find any markings on it.
hmmm favorite Diana's my most-shot gun would be my model 24 .177 that i have had for going on 20 years now it is so pinpoint accurate and light and easy to shoot, I love nothing more than amazing friends and family with how accurate it is. but... it is not powerful enough for hunting anything so my next favorite would have to be my model 52 .22 JM tuned whewwww is it a pleasure to shoot and the rodents refuse to come into range anymore is very unsportsmanlike of them in my oppinion.
By the way. My favorite Diana is the last one I am fortunate to buy. Right now is the 460 but all the ones before still are in my heart (and in my gun case!)
the 350 .22 because that's the only Diana I have! heheh
The RWS 850 .22 I ordered the other night is not a Diana but it's from Germany so that counts for something
Gotta love those 52's!! Hey did you 52 owners see the youtube video of the guy killing a red fox with 1 shot to the head from his Diana 52 .22? That was truly something.. and a very lucky shot in the right spot no doubt!
I'd have to say, out of the 6 Dianas in my collection, my Diana 46 is my favorite, although I probably shoot my Diana 24 a bit more because of the shear joy it provides for plinking.
I have to go with my Model 25D. It's got a JM R-7 Mainspring, the wonderfull 3 ball trigger and now sports a lucky find of a "Vintage" Hy-Score 4X scope!
The little 25D shoots around the 700fps neighborhood (with mid-weight pellets), it's light, plesantlly accurate easy to cock with low recoil. An all day shooter.
See I had JM save me one of his old R-7 mainsprings to install in it, I put a brass shim inside the piston to add just a little more tension and a thin thrust washer on the rear metal guide. The "stock" 25D uses a Model-5 pistol mainspring. My estimates are only comparisons to guns with "Known" velocitys (On guns that have been checked) since I don't have a chrony. Pellet impacts indicate such preformance though. I could and should have used a long plastic spacer inside the piston because once the the R-7 spring took it's set, there isn't a whole lot of spring tension (When cocked) when you return the barrel to battery. I'd suggest anyone trying the R-7 speing in a 25D, use a fitted front guide! The Piston was highly polished and the inner place where the piston feeds the mainspring in was radiused and also polished.
I did however mispeak tho when I quoted on the pell, as I should have said lightweight pellets (old Daisy MaxSpeed's). Using Crosman Points velocitys are slower but trajectory is flatter out to 30 yds. It shoots right alongside my RWS 92!
All in all the mod really improved the little rifle a LOT andsince I did it the 25D has really become a favorite because of the extended "accurate" range it got.
HTH explain what I said,
I normally shoot the rifle between 20 and 30 yds with occasional forrays out to 50. The barrel seems to cooperate at long range quite well, but even as much as the preformance increaed over stock, the powerplant just is not suited to long range work, it's at it's best around 30 yards. I got what I wanted, an Old Man's Garden Gun...
Lesssee.....I've got a Mod 24D..a Mod 46E...a Mod 75..a Mod 100..a Mod 6M and
had a Mod 34.
Okay , I got it. My Favorite Diana is my Mod 75...I see no need to explain...
Tony G
and I sure like it. As far as a gun I could buy new if they
(Umarex USA)make them available here - I think I'd really
like a Diana 28. Really enjoyed the 24 but desired a bit
more power so I figure a 28 would be pretty sweet with a
nasty little sting
Deadly accurate,smooth as silk & fully tuned.But I would like to get or at least try a Diana 75.From what I understand these are the Rolls Royce for target shooting.But I could be wrong everyone has there own opinion and I respect that.
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Respectfully
bbgunbob
how are you going to convince these pagans about your favorite Diana being the 48, LOL x 2
of course the 48 is a sweet thing. 850 FPS, sidelever, fixed barrel, accurate and smooth as a baby's butt
the only challenger to the 48 is the M460 at 875 FPS. If FEDEX hurries up I will have it next week and see if stories of the 460 are true
already have everything set up for that delivery, pellets (CP's 14.3 gr.), target (paper) at 25 yrds. Can't wait to put the first CP and experience that first trigger pull and what happens next
but, I will still go back to the 48 regardless of the outcome
warren
and remember "it's 30% the gun and 70% the shooter"
Hands down my 54! This thing is a rock!! W/ brown box CP. its a tack driver,even if you shoot it hanging from a tree! Very consistant 800-810 w/ 14.3 cp. The term "hold sensative" DOES NOT APPLY! At the risk of being hung at the closest tree,,, lately (at home) I shoot my Cros. self modded G-1 Extreme. I have a nosy neighbor that, if he hears me shooting feels compeled to come over & TALK MY HEAD OFF! My G-1 is VERY quiet! When me & my son & friends go hunting on weekends, I would not consider anything less than attaching my sling to my 54 & GET er Done! I cant say Ive ever met a Diana I did not LOVE! Wish I never sold my first 34. Just my 2 cents! Tim.
another 34 sold by it's owner and regreted the decision, that makes 1,986 of you guys because I have been counting on 34 owners that have sold it and regreted it
Tim that makes you a winner and you are # 1,987
warren
PS; I still have my ORIGINAL 34, sooo I will never be 1,988 or 1,989
and remember "it's 30% the gun and 70% the shooter"
The diana 177, is soooo smooth to cock, it has a Macarri spring, hell of a recoil!but accurate! although my .22 gecado has iron sights, packs a wallop!it knocks seven bells ,out of scopes!hence the iron sights! regards Bob
The last airgun I intend on getting (down the road) will be a variation of the 48. Probably the 52 when the time comes.
I had a 90th anniversary 45 and now have one that for all intents and purposes looks like they cut the stock from black walnut. A beautiful rifle with a snap instead of the usual sound of a springer. I'm also one of the lucky ones. I've got one of your family lol. A '71 Gecado 35.
All of the rifles you guys mentioned could easily be the One Gun. For those who don't know what The One Gun refers to, there's an old phrase that goes; "Beware of the man with one gun. He knows how to use it."
For anyone interested in the Diana 45, if you can afford it, get one. They are the last of the spring piston rifles made by Diana for Olympic competition. They are a dual opposed piston design. They were made this way in order to negate the usual recoil of springers on the ten meter match line. FWB's design was the sliding sledge. Anschutz had a variation of the theme and some say it was even smoothter than the Diana 75. Walther had their own versions too. You could not go wrong with any of these. But after these came the single stroke pneumatics. Personally, I think they're just as good. If you crave the creme de la creme of shooting and you don't want to move into the surgical but somewhat soulless pcp's, any of the rifles mentioned will give you a lifetime of shooting pleasure and discovery.
Dang, now I gotta write a post about ten meter air rifles...
is very unsportsmanlike of them in my oppinion.
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