Fun with a Milbro Diana G4
Having just arranged for the club's engineering maestro to make me a couple of synthetic spring guides for my pistols, what a transformation in performance.
Early variants made up until the mid 1960s were fitted with conventional spring guides and are smooth enough to use but on later versions, a long mainspring with some 2 inches of preload was held in place by the end cap only. This often results in spring distortion and a horrible grinding noise during use. Fitting a guide smooths the cocking stroke no end and the pistol seems more pokey too. It is a pleasure to use and more accurate on tin cans than CO2 clones for example.
Definitely an underrated design...
John
Last edited by Josie & John; 06-06-2016 at 05:38 AM.
Currently looking for Baikal Makarov pistols with the following prefixes to the serial number: 98, T01, T09, T21, T22
Prefer boxed or cased but will consider loose examples too.
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