New air rifle - Diana 350 Magnum Superior
Posted: Tue Nov 01, 2011 10:30 am
I found this one on Usedguns and couldn't help myself. The previous owner in an airgun enthusiast and had special ordered this rifle, which doesn't come to Australia otherwise. It took so long to get here, in the interim he fell in love with a .25 Daystate PCP so decided to move this on - unfired! So it's kind of unique here. 
This is a big springer. It's bigger than a full length HW80 but not as heavy. It's more powerful than just about any other springer out there in real terms. A 14gr .22 pellet should be doing around 850fps which is as fast as most .177's with an 8gr pellet. I haven't chronied it yet, but a Gamo target wadcutter will go clean through a full 475g can of baked beans at 20m. ;D Pellets are disintegrated upon hitting steel.
It is quite a long rifle though not overly heavy and when shouldered the weight seems to disappear. It's typical new springer to cock - a tad graunchy - but not twangy to fire. There certainly is a distinct recoil in both directions but it's not hard to shoot offhand using the artillery hold. I'm going to put a couple of hundred shots through it today and set the opens up properly. They will do for now and the sight picture isn't bad.
The stock seems to have some sort of polyurethane finish like that used on laminate stocks - it works but almost gives the impression that the grain is printed on, as opposed to letting you look into the wood.
Sights are all steel, with a square notch and pointed post.
Metal finish isn't bad, not quite to HW standards or that of my FWB127 maybe but not bad at all.
Puppy likes it.
This is a big springer. It's bigger than a full length HW80 but not as heavy. It's more powerful than just about any other springer out there in real terms. A 14gr .22 pellet should be doing around 850fps which is as fast as most .177's with an 8gr pellet. I haven't chronied it yet, but a Gamo target wadcutter will go clean through a full 475g can of baked beans at 20m. ;D Pellets are disintegrated upon hitting steel.
It is quite a long rifle though not overly heavy and when shouldered the weight seems to disappear. It's typical new springer to cock - a tad graunchy - but not twangy to fire. There certainly is a distinct recoil in both directions but it's not hard to shoot offhand using the artillery hold. I'm going to put a couple of hundred shots through it today and set the opens up properly. They will do for now and the sight picture isn't bad.
The stock seems to have some sort of polyurethane finish like that used on laminate stocks - it works but almost gives the impression that the grain is printed on, as opposed to letting you look into the wood.
Sights are all steel, with a square notch and pointed post.
Metal finish isn't bad, not quite to HW standards or that of my FWB127 maybe but not bad at all.
Puppy likes it.