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broommaster2000 · Moderator

First impressions:

Hot Diggity Dang! This rifle looks and feels like it's gonna do... something BAD. The last time I've held such a bad a$$ rifle was... Actually, that was last week, an Airforce Condor in .22...

It's still pretty bad a$$ though!

Now, this is a used gun, like all my guns. Over here they're newly sold for around € 460,- Euro ($ 610,-), and that's without any extras. I got it used for € 275,- ($ 373,-)with a free € 90,- ($ 122,-)bipod and some .177 Baracuda's. Seems a pretty good deal.

It's got some dents at the pistol grip, and near the cocking-release, misses the height adjustment, but the rest is in pretty good nick. The Blueing is in near perfect condition, except a little missing where the cocking lever goes, so it's not THAT new.

Cocking is pretty easy and smooth, for a side-lever. It has the rackety-clackety sound that is... interesting, to say the least, but bearable. The safety is a bit strange, and rather small. It doesn't click. It's just on or off, without a satisfying click. It is automatically engaged at cocking the rifle.

The trigger is fine. One stage, no fuss, does it's job.

Shot just two pellets, and it's smoking. Just launched them into a tree at 4 meters. Could'nt see where the pellets went, and I expect they were just smashed against the trees, as they're pretty touch ones.

Testing at 20 meters will commence this Sunday.

I'll be testing at 50 meters on Saturdat the 25th, if the firing range owner will allow me.

I'll post some pictures, hopefully, tonight.

cw · Banned

I thought that you were on an airgun diet. How did you sneak it past
mom and dad?

broommaster2000 · Moderator

Not, Dad already saw it and he asked me "is that legal?", and my mom isn't home yet. It'll cause her a heart attack.

Some early webcam pics!

Did I mention it's HUGE?

AirGunEric · Site Admin

broommaster2000 · Moderator

I think so, it's a 4 Kilo gun. Mr. Green

It's a very nice gun. The plastic doesn't bother me as much as I thought.

broommaster2000 · Moderator

I gotta get me one of the more fancier camera's. I don't know why, but it keeps screwing up the ISO-values.

broommaster2000 · Moderator

A side note: The Slavia 630 is 6 centimeters longer then the Diana. Mr. Green

broommaster2000 · Moderator

The Diana 48 before being lubed, spring guided, and tested:

A slight twang, but for the rest normal (Diana) behaviour. The rifle feels good to shoot when lying down, resting on the bi-pod but cocking it is a tad to much of an effort. Jan, who has tuned the gun and is known to have quite some strenth in his arms, wasn't capable of doing it. He also tried shooting FT position, which again didn't really make cocking easyer, however, he got a tight group out of it, about 2.5 Cm (0.98 Inch). This was at 20 meters, and his first time with a Diana 48, or even an upper class springer, without the tune.

We have chrono'd the speeds at 240 Mps (787 Fps) with Baracuda Extra Heavies (10.3 Grains/0.66 Gram). Putten trough a converter, we could now calculate the amount of Joules/Fpe which are:
19,22 Joule
Or
14,17 Fpe

They say that for 100 meters, you'll need about 25/30 indoors, and 30+ for outdoors.

The Diana 48 after being lubed, spring guided, and tested:

It took us a while to get the rifle back together. We had some trouble with a home made top hat (to tight), but after a while we had it solved by destroying it with a screwdriver (it was stuck in the piston) and a hammer. After the second try putting it back together, we found that it was to hard to cock, so we dissasembled it, and shortened the top hat a bit. After putting it back togetether this was the result:

Not that much of a difference. The only thing that changed is the sound. No twang, but also a small decrease in Fps: It went from 240 (787 Fps) Mps to 238 (780 Fps).

I'd like to add, that it's not hard to take the gun apart, but it takes a darn long time. There are a LOT of parts on these Dianers!

Forgot to mention, she's from 2004!

Alstone · Moderator & Site Supporter

Looks a very nice rifle you’ve got there Anton, but I not to keen on side leavers but there again each to there own, it will be interesting to see the results of the 50m range if the guy allows you to use it. Thumb Up!

The tripod looks like one off a Twinmaster Desperado? and that’s another thing, it will also be interesting to see how the Diana reacts to shooting off a tripod, I thinking of fitting one to my TX sometime so the results you get could alter whether I fit one or not, as springers do not usually like fixed rests. Question

Al

broommaster2000 · Moderator

I wouldn't put a Bipot on a break barrel or a sidelever for a different reason: Cocking.

The thing is, that it's not the rifle that doesn't like the fixed rest (my theory, that is) but the fact that one has to move around a lot, and therefore won't be capable of repeating the shot exactly.

Edit: I ment underlever, off course!

cw · Banned

That's true, I have tried bi-pods on several of my springers
with horrible results. For best results, they should only be
hand held.

broommaster2000 · Moderator

The thing is, that there are also bipods for Archery bows, that have a build in shock absorber. I've seen an experimental rifle with one (HW35) that was quite capable of good groupings.

Also, the guy I bought my Dianer from, uses it to shoot up to 100 meters with it, and he has fairly good results.

Alstone · Moderator & Site Supporter

A friend of mine as used a silicon filled brest inplant ontop of a three leg tripod also with good results from his springer.

Don't ask me where he got the implant?

Al

broommaster2000 · Moderator

Well, that would make the Blitz at a shoot. Mr. Green