Great to see a springer review these days. Its all PCP's most of the time..I'm not a PCP guy..I love springers & have been shooting them since the early 70's :)

@heavilyarmedgoy

5 жыл бұрын

What brand of scopes do you use that hold up to the abuse?

@elvergontemeto714

Жыл бұрын

@@heavilyarmedgoy no scope at all Real men use iron open sights.

This is the exact Diana, I was hoping that you'd review,..Thanks for this one too Rick!

I bought my Diana 34 over 5 years ago after researching a lot and watching your original video on this great gun. It is still one of my favorite guns even though I own so many more now. It definitely got me started in the great world of airgunning! Thanks Rick!

Excellent review, thank-you. Just for the record, my dad gave me a break-barrel Diana air riffle model 27 Cal.177 (4.5mm) back in 1981...still got it and keeping on shooting with my kids back yard plinking like the good old days. Can't get enough of this German made guns.

It's been awhile since I watched one of your videos but as usual you have done our sport ,hobby justice.

I have owned and used the diana 34 for 3 years now and it has been superb. Mine is .177 and has proved to be very accurate and consistent. This gun has been around for many years yet has mostly stayed under the radar. They are not the easiest guns to find here in the uk. In my opinion the 34 is as good as any other full power break barrel available if not better. I do not know the exact power output of my uk model but i do know that it kills rabbits cleanly at 40yds.

a very nice review about a brilliant classic airgun! 👍

Legendary airgun, excellent review

Great review !

Just bought this rifle in .22.! I shot golf balls at 50yds easily with open sights, once I sighted it in. I have several .177 and .22 air rifles, the Diana 34 is the best .22 air rifle I've owned, I love it!

The 34 was the gun the cool kids had when I grew up, and this one looks even nicer than the old ones! I like the straight stock with no gimmicky features.

great review thank you!

I have a Diana 34 .22 with T06 trigger. I bought it new in France by mail order about eight years ago. The air rifle was sold as having muzzle energy of 20 joules (14¾ foot pounds), the maximum allowed in France without a firearms licence and the cylinder of the air rifle is marked "20J". I measured the muzzle velocity for pellets of different masses and calculated the energy to be between 15 joules and 17 joules (11 foot pounds and 12½ foot pounds) depending on the mass of the pellet was reasonably close to the rated energy. It is now a handsome and accurate air rifle and very pleasant to use. However there were some issues which were factory faults or design deficiencies some of which I corrected. 1. One side of the stock at the front of my rifle was 1/8 inch longer than the other side. This did not affect the use of the rifle but it was a manufacturing defect all the same and unsightly once you had noticed it. I carefully filed the longer side to have the same profile as the other side and I sanded, stained and waxed the wood so that my correction was invisible.. 2. There are three heights available for the front sight. The front sight on my 34 was too high. Even with the rear sight set as high as possible, it could not be zeroed to a target at 10 feet. I spoke to someone in the factory and they said they could not understand how it had passed its tests but they sent me a sight of the correct height, which corrected the problem 3. If you try to raise the rear sight too high, the adjusting wheel unscrews completely and the two steel balls 0.1 inch diameter between the wheel and the sight then fall out and are lost. In my view, it is a design defect that there is nothing to stop the adjusting wheel unscrewing completely. 4. When I received the 34, one of the front screws attaching the stock to the mechanism did not seem to be screwed into its correct position. I found that the screw holes in the mechanism had been badly tapped and the screws had then been force-screwed into the mis-tapped holes, damaging the thread of the screws. If the factory's quality system had worked correctly, the problem would have been recognized by the worker inserting the screws, who would have had the authority to stop the production line until the tapping problem had been corrected. I re-tapped the screw holes (using a correct metric tap) and installed new and undamaged screws. 5. The large screw at the front of the trigger guard sometimes comes loose and the rifle then looses accuracy, even though the screw has previously been well tightened. I am not sure what would be the best solution to this problem but it is a defect that should not be there 6. A final and minor point, but a quality issue all the same. The screw at the front of the trigger guard is a phillips screw. The smaller screw at the rear of the trigger guard is posidrive. It's a general quality principle that all the fasteners in a product should be of the same type. Despite these issues, my Diana 34 is now a handsome and accurate air rifle which is a pleasure to use. I just felt surprised to have noticed so many issues in a product which seems generally to be viewed as an item of high quality.

I had one of these way back when. I really wish I still had it.

Have the 34. Love the 34. Hornets are excellent.

Nice shooting great review and presintation , realy nice Diana break barrel very accurate for a springer .

Great post...keep'em up.

great video i really like your style i also really loved that you let the jack rabbit go im a hunter and i enjoy feeding my family with game often small game but i love letting some go too so that was cool to see

Ha ha. Jackrabbit. If I see one anytime, anywhere on our farm, it’s going down! Really enjoy y’all’s videos. Keep up the good work!!! (Oh, don’t tell anyone, my wife and I were checking for wind damage the other day....UNARMED! And what did we see? Jackrabbit!)

I bought a 100th Aniversary 34 with medallion in stock in 1990, shot it today. May 2021, all original, wish I had a chrono to see velocity. I shoot 66 yards, scoped with quad shooting sticks, standing. Good practice for deer hunting.

I just got my Diana 34 .22 bout a month ago now it's shooting real good, now I can't decide which one I like better my Walther terrus.22 or my Diana 34.....😊

Nice air gun bro 👍 Diana is the Best air gun.

Still have mine. Will have to blow the dust off it first. I love it till the end of time.

I have this rifle and it's just what he says a all round good air rifle well made power accuracy well made I like the long barrel no silencer really needed on air rifle quiet enough a lot gun with silencers have half the barrel length as the Diana like to think longer the barrel the more rifling in the barrel carry power and accuracy.

Have one in .22 and .177. Both are real shooters.

I got model 34 i think it was 1998 steal got it to this day still shoots great

Nice video

I've had my 34 for just over 3 years, put at least 10 tins of pellets through it.Solid, well built, accurate, more than enough power for what I use it for. Very happy with it, I would say a good serious first airgun or great value if you don't want to drop a lot of money but still have a more than decent piece of kit.

@pinag1492

2 жыл бұрын

Will this kill rats ?

@BoggWeasel

2 жыл бұрын

@@pinag1492 I couldn't say, I don't shoot animals with it, just targets. I can say it shoots accurate and flat at 25 yards.....( It's 177...shoots faster and flatter than 22 )

This definitely should be purchased in .177

just ordered one in .177 from you guys, pick me out a purty one lol

shame they don't use the globe front sight anymore. but you gotta love that trigger.

Hi Rick I have the walther terrus and I cant hear the spring like my other rifle the hatsan edge, is the Diana same as the walther that you dont hear the spring wnen fired probably because there better made?

So how is the 34 vs the 350? Pyramid Air suggested both of these to me, but other than power is there any other benefit to the 350?

This video convinced me to order this gun with open sights and the hornet pellets from pyramyd air this past spring when I got my stimulus payment and I'm very impressed with it. I don't get quite as tight of groups as this video shows because I'm using open sights and I'm shooting from about 20 yards but I can get 5 shots fired in a session to hit within a 2 or 3 inch center mass group. Plus I love how the hornets tear up a 1x4 pine wood board from 20 yards away. It is putting out about 13 to 15 foot pounds of energy and a velocity of about 600 to 650 feet per second so with the hornets it's a great 20 to 25 yard target shooter and small game hunter. It's ideal if you live in a suburban or urban residential neighborhood and you have a garden and you want to use your vegetables in rabbit stew instead of as rabbit food

@abelguerra2587

3 жыл бұрын

I have the Diana 34 in .22 you can also try the RWS pellets there are super accurate in my rifle....

@Matzah1982

3 жыл бұрын

I've heard the Rws super domes work great in rws guns and though they are a very light pellet at about 11 or 12 grains they are a high velocity pellet and the foot pounds of energy are about the same as with the 16 grain hornets

@abelguerra2587

3 жыл бұрын

Wow didn't know that???? Yea l have the Walther terrus .22 and also likes those pellets....yes the dome ones seem to group better than the pointed and super h pellets....

@Matzah1982

3 жыл бұрын

I like the hornets for their accuracy and penetration and expansion. I used to use JSB domed 15.89 grain pellets and their accuracy was terrible. Although out of the Rws Diana 350 magnum .22 I used to have the JSB heavy diabolo 18.13 grain domed pellets worked great. With domed pellets I don't get as good of penetration as I get with the hornets. For example from 25 yards away with my Rws Diana model 34 classic .22 the domed 15.89 grain JSB pellets almost penetrate through 2 back to back thin plastic gallon water jugs but from the same distance with my gun shooting hornets they do fully penetrate through both jugs

@abelguerra2587

3 жыл бұрын

Good to know I'll give them l try thanks....👍

Great vid.. I am in the market for either the 34 or 350 magnum. What are your thoughts?

so is the new "EMS" version any good? I don't see the classic being available anymore

Recently I have noticed that Diana remove all N-Tech rifles from their site, there is no record on that and previous N-Teck models are not to be found I would love to know why, and what happened. Do I need to worry as a Diana owner?

Hey Rick, I picked up a Diana 36 in .177. Do you have any experience with it?

I do like Diana air rifles but many require a droop compensating mount and the pellet loading hole in the breach is machined at an angle, if you don't use a pellet seating tool you may run the risk of damaging the pellet skirt when locking up the breach. I wish Diana would fix the barrel droop issue, when you and the droop mount the scope sits very high.

@Will-Max

2 жыл бұрын

I have one that's 30 years old, what is the pellet skirt?

Which is better for Rabbits? This, the Weihrauch HW 95 , the Weihrauch HW 80 , or something else? Also, which caliber for rabbits? Some people say 177 will be fine , others sago 22cal. Please, I want the best, for Rabbits, which springer, which cal? Thanks

I wouldn’t recommend airmax or sidewinder hawke scope on a springer, just pcps. For a springer you will need a swfa ss or a vortex diamondback tactical. I own a TX200 and kills the airmax and sidewinder with less 1.000 shots each one.

I got shot with one of these and had to go to the hospital. Definitely not a toy.

I’ve had the Diana 34 TOS 22 for about 15 years. The stock sights on mine never worked correctly, swapped out for a scope. Recoil ate my first scope in about a year. Now I’m using a Bushnell Banner 2 mounted to a spring loaded scope mount. I’ve tried every pellet on the market and I can’t get better than a 3” group at 100’. First thought is I just suck, I can hit 1” MOA with my 6.5 C bolt gun at 500 yrds all day long. I would love to hear any ideas on how to get this air rifle dialed in?

$280 Lol...That was before Brandon Economics. I just got one a few weeks on "super sale" for $409 and free shipping and thought I stole it for that price.

How does it compare to the Walther Terrus???????

Hi Rick. Will you do a test of the Diana 34 EMS in 22?I believe it is more powerful with a different trigger.

what mount

Realistically maybe someone can answer this question.. How long would a springer like this last? I have a Walther Terrus and a few gano springer but I’ve always wanted this Diana

@abelguerra8241

5 жыл бұрын

I also have the Walther terrus .22 and love it, and also wanted to get this one from Diana, they should last a long time if well taken care of...I had diffrent air rifles but nothing compares to this german guns...

@kristianmccannell

4 жыл бұрын

To give an idea I am still shooting a Diana model 35 that my great grandfather got in the 1950's!

Is it available in India?

superairgun, the 1i like is the korrel in this plastiek !!!!!!!!

What is the shooting range sir

You said it's a great gun but with 13ish fpe and there are other ones you like with more. What's your favorite accurate reliable hunting one in .22 Cal with 25+ FPE? Nitro piston is fine to. New to real air gunning (only had China knock offs in past) and want to buy once cry once. Any recommendations? Thanks!

@kristianmccannell

4 жыл бұрын

if your looking for a good springer the TX 200 is just an exceptional choice! Everything all in one package, so you never feel like you have to buy another air rifle with upgrades. The hunter carbine model in .22 is a good choice as it can push 16 FPE and possibly more with a good tune. Great for hunting as its pin point accurate and if you can hit the mark will take out any bird, rabbit or squirrel out to 50 yards ( I've seen farther kill shots). It definitely is not a cheap rifle and yes it is not the most powerful magnum springer on the market but it is capable of shooting the eye out of a rabbit at 50 yards providing the shooter is capable. It is also extremely beautiful and superbly built. One of the best springers in the world.

@airgreek

3 жыл бұрын

Sig ASP20. I have had the top models and this is the one I kept.

Daina 35 fpe?

I was looking at a Crossman, but the Diana 34 looks a hellofalot better, Now I am a prepper, and I know what is coming, so I am looking for a Break-barrel that has almost no sound to it's firing a .22 to .25 Pellet to hunt small game ... now what type of a scope do you recommend that has no batteries?

@AirGunWeb

4 жыл бұрын

Any of the Hawke scopes with an etched glass reticle. Some are "illuminated" but they don't need batteries to work. If you want to look at some specific models, email me from www.airgunproshop.com. Cheers AGW

@robertevans8126

4 жыл бұрын

@@AirGunWeb I will, thanks for the reply

Price?

Nice rifle, nice shape... But I don't feel comfortable taking it for rabbit's, here in Greece rabbit's are about 3,5-4 kilos... And I mean rabbits not hare... I would prefer something about just over16 footpounts and a 25cal so I can take not only head but chest shots as well. I saw review of the hatsan 95 in 25 cal and I think that this can be my next purchase. How about that dear friend? What's your opinion??? Is the hatsan 95 in 25cal a nice choice for this purpose or I should get the 22 ????? Greetings from Greece.

@John-fc3yr

4 жыл бұрын

Γεια σου φιλε μου ....φαίνεται ότι ξέρεις από αεροβολα . Είμαι ανάμεσα σε Diana 34 και Weihrauch 75 HW. Μια ερώτηση μπορούν να ρίξουν κάτω αλεπού ή λαγό/κουνέλι ?

@airgreek

3 жыл бұрын

Buy the Sig Sauer ASP20

Hi sir how much air gun long barrel...convert phil money

Bum bum bam bam bam bum

I have a Diana 34 .177 it is 8 years old and I can hit a small bird at 75 yards.

@titoyama5760

3 жыл бұрын

@Von Fields I have my scope zero it out at 50yards so I just go up on the rifle a little bit to compensate for the drop, to me 50 yards on that rifle is more than enough

@titoyama5760

3 жыл бұрын

@@hanfanatiker2566 what's disgusting?

diana 34 ems fps

Buy one for me? Lol

Hey Rick, hope you can get back to me. I hunt rabbits out in Deep South TX, got a Gamo swarm .22 and .177, found that they are “accurate” but not super accurate to shoot a living creature safely and not injure it with it running off to die. I was looking for more accuracy, would this be the gun to look into or the Gamo accu, I’m looking for something not too expensive so if I scratch it out while stalking I won’t feel as bad.

@nref55

4 жыл бұрын

The .177 swarm is a whisper, the .22 is a Maxxim. I have hope for the Maxxim, I have a bug buster utg on the way, just getting into pellet rifles.

When you say pellet guns punish lol have you ever shot a real rifle?

@kristianmccannell

4 жыл бұрын

I think he is referring to the hold sensitivity of the rifle. if you do not hold some springers a certain way every time they won't be very accurate. This rifle seems not to be very hold sensitive.

I thought the model 34 was a terrible gun in accurate brake scopes, terrible firing behavior. The 36 was a better gun.