Roped the missus into making a sweet little vid of her Diana 27.
She’s a great shot with it!
https://youtu.be/889pWxlysQY
Cheers,
Matt.
Roped the missus into making a sweet little vid of her Diana 27.
She’s a great shot with it!
https://youtu.be/889pWxlysQY
Cheers,
Matt.
Vintage Airguns Gallery
..Above link posted with permission from Gareth W-B
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South African ladies know how to shoot. Normally they carry a 9mm or a nice snubby .38. I just got in one of the oldest model 27's that had the full wooden stock, think they were around 1960's Danny ? It is built like a tank, every bit is solid steel, also a screw on cap.
Baz
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She’s a natural, definitely has some strong Boer blood in her.
Ironically it was partly the Boers picking off Englishman from a great distance that led to the popularity of air rifle shooting in Great Britain at the end of the 19th century.
I understand it was an attempt to teach the average Englishman marksmanship through bell target shooting?
I’d love to make a video outlining the Boer war/ bell target story.
The late Frank Spittle wrote a wonderful book on bell target shooting.
His son(?) keeps open this abridged online version:
http://www.belltarget.com/resources/...rget_Story.pdf
Vintage Airguns Gallery
..Above link posted with permission from Gareth W-B
In British slang an anorak is a person who has a very strong interest in niche subjects.
Very nice video. Just wish in American they would have vintage shoots.
Baz the first long (half?) stock mod 27 was in the 1930s and had a lovely walnut stock as well as the 'double pull' trigger like on the first Webley Mk3s (but made better).
Diana (and Milbro) carried on with the mod 27 from the 1950s, in beech. You can tell the 1930s one (apart from walnut and month/year stamps on butt) because the screw on cylinder end cap was flat. The postwar caps were domed to accommodate more complex trigger geometry.
Vintage Airguns Gallery
..Above link posted with permission from Gareth W-B
In British slang an anorak is a person who has a very strong interest in niche subjects.