120 years old this year

[Ian Johnstone]

M & G / Diana

Here's an interesting document (in German) but lots of good pics....

http://www.diana-airguns.de/fileadmi...42_G_Diana.pdf

[Gareth W-B]

Superb. Thank you Ian. Now all we need is for Danny to transalste it for us (although I am more than happy with the pictures ). Atb: G.

[Binners]

M & G / Diana

Here's an interesting document (in German) but lots of good pics....

http://www.diana-airguns.de/fileadmi...42_G_Diana.pdf

I mentioned it once but I think I got away with it !

[Garvin]

Thanks Ian, that's great. Gareth, unfortunately my German extends only to a small selection of gun-related terms, like stock, barrel, blueing etc. Useful for egun, yes, but bleed'n hopeless for an article like that.

[Binners]

Superb. Thank you Ian. Now all we need is for Danny to transalste it for us (although I am more than happy with the pictures ). Atb: G.

Well you started it

[Ian Johnstone]

Well, the modern gun shown is a special issue 34 in Walnut with (Scottish chequering) and a gold trigger & will be time limited to this year alone.

[Gareth W-B]

I mentioned it once but I think I got away with it !

Well you started it

... Flowery Twats.

[Ian Johnstone]

Another thread ruined

[Ian Johnstone]

Binners - 'Nussbaumschaft'.


yourself

[Binners]

Binners - 'Nussbaumschaft'.


yourself

Thank you, I thought it looked big in these trousers.

Knopf Kopf

[Hsing-ee]

Hm. They only made three nice rifles

The early model 50 with the Schnabel tip to the fore-end.

The Model 35B

The Model 45.

The rest of them are utterly forgettable really. The pistols are hideous, and the match rifles wannabes which got trounced by FWB, Anschutz and Walther.

They are often made with soft metal parts and hard plastic parts and smell of wee. You'd have thought that with 120 years they might end up making nice rifles like Air Arms or Weihrauch, but they are still studyin'....

[Binners]

Hm. They only made three nice rifles

The early model 50 with the Schnabel tip to the fore-end.

The Model 35B

The Model 45.

The rest of them are utterly forgettable really. The pistols are hideous, and the match rifles wannabes which got trounced by FWB, Anschutz and Walther.

They are often made with soft metal parts and hard plastic parts and smell of wee. You'd have thought that with 120 years they might end up making nice rifles like Air Arms or Weihrauch, but they are still studyin'....

You don't rate the Model 30 then ?

[Hsing-ee]

You don't rate the Model 30 then ?

Never seen one apart from in the catalog in 1981, fairground bolt-action ain't it? Not my cuppa T oh no.

[Binners]

Never seen one apart from in the catalog in 1981, fairground bolt-action ain't it? Not my cuppa T oh no.

No Sir, Not quite, It was a military trainer used by the Hitler youth. Based on the Mauser if I am not egg n bacan

[Garvin]

Hm. They only made three nice rifles

The pre-War rifles were nice. In fact, though it pains me to say it, the 1930s Dianas made the British offerings of the time look quite crude by comparison.