A query to the esteemed members of this section.

Quite a few years ago I purchased what I was told was a Diana 34s. Now, this is not the later SM with the ultra carbine barrel and large moderator. Rather this is a 34, with a 15" (?) barrel and a late modern looking- deep fore end stock.

The gun is dated 11 88 (its not a good stamping so just possibly could be 89), but a suggestion by a personage with superior Diana knowledge to myself has questioned that it is indeed a 34s. He suggests that at the date mentioned the stock would have been the older plain, slim type stock, and perhaps the barrel too has come off a later 34. In all perhaps suggesting that I may have bits from three guns- barrel, action and stock.

I'm starting to doubt what a 34s actually consists of and what it's appearance would be now.

Can anyone throw some light on this- perhaps with links to what they KNOW is deffo a Diana 34s (or maybe you own one)?

Thanks in anticipation.

Dave