The front sight can easily be replaced with a 470TH style sightless weight but you will need to change the cocking lever as well.
https://www.diana-airguns.de/fileadm...0TH_mittel.jpg
The front sight can easily be replaced with a 470TH style sightless weight but you will need to change the cocking lever as well.
https://www.diana-airguns.de/fileadm...0TH_mittel.jpg
If you go down the custom part route Barry might it not be an idea to scope out the possibility of making this a moderator?
Its a shame that Diana dont take a lead in this respect and make a dedicated one for those rifles that may be used for hunting.
Just a thought?
Dave
depends the market. out hunting and the scope gets broken . no iron sights = no food .
in a survival or hunting for food situation.
if you look at lots of hunting centre fire or rimefire rifles the have both a scope and iron sights .
maybe not such a big thing on an airgun though ,depending on the market
I must admit that I like the idea of back up open sights
Anyway I was thinking about going for maximus suggestion as I liked it, but had another look at the factory sight and made some subtle changes and now I am actually satisfied, I got the post to a nice shape then took of the corners and hand finished it, even though its plastic is so robust and has a smooth solid lever lock up so the factory sight is staying.
I wonder if I will change my mind next week LOL.
Here are the subtle changes
https://imgur.com/9Oq6wer
Massive improvement! Good work. God only knows what they were thinking making it so thick!
Nice Barry.
Its a shame that Diana couldn't knock them out that profile at the factory as the current set up is not good. The factory foresight post looks the thicknesses of a scaffold pole down the sight line. Your re profiled one looks as if it will give a much clearer sight picture and perhaps a corresponding increase in accuracy.
My eyes are not all they used to be these days so I think I will be sticking with scopes unfortunately.
Dave
Aware it's not a straight swap but doesn't sound too hard.
Amusingly so are you!
http://www.network54.com/Forum/18447...e+for+a+460%3F
(my retort is pretty much the same as Hectors! Easy but, yes, requires work)
I looked at it before, about £70 IIRC though that may have just been for the weight.
That front sight is hideous.
The rear sight is positioned too far forwards to give a good sight-base. It's a scope-only gun really.
I would get rid of them both, and if open sights are something you want, then get a lighter break-barrel and have that as your dedicated open sights gun. Swapping scope with opens on one rifle is a pain in the arse anyway.
I agree, but I am not sure what to replace the front sight with as it's light and a nice balance and I don't want to spoil the feel, It's actually lighter than break barrels like the 80 and ofcourse the LGV.
Also look how close the lever is to the barrel, I like the look but not easy to fit a ball catch so close to the barrel.
The plastic unit is robust and light and as you can see in the OP easily modified to scope only and I don't have to go filling and drilling the barrel, the only thing is I don't like plastic bits
Last edited by Barryg; 22-09-2017 at 12:05 PM.
Would a 97 one fit?
Plinkerer and Tinkerer
No because the lever is closer to the barrel on the 460 and the length of the lever is different
This is what it looks like under the sight unit
https://imgur.com/TOAz7sS
Last edited by Barryg; 22-09-2017 at 12:47 PM.