I have one,,,in this moment,,,its,,broken,,,but i love it,,,I had a lott,of good expirense,,under 1970

i had one, i fettled it and found it very accurate in the house 27 foot range my friends 2 sons both trainedwith it great little gun

Great to see an old rifle been given a new lease of life. Looking forward to seeing your next video. Keep up the great work and a big hello from the UK 🇬🇧.

All my friends and me to had DIANA 15s in the 1960s 🇬🇧

Familiar with this air gun as the Gacado model 15 in British Guiana & made in W.Germany. A friend had one & I did shoot it a number of times. Amazed, as you, that it did 400fps. Most of my friends had the model 23, 27, 35 & 50, again all as Gacado. I had a model 2 pistol that my dad saw me with & he took it back to the store & exchanged it for a laundry basket. It was $7. in those days.

I have 2 model 15 air rifles, one made in Germany in 1934 and another made at millard brothers here in the UK in 1954. Both are in good condition and shoot quite powerfully for their small size. Great video. Thanks P.S yours was made the year I was born 1949

Liked Your Video on the Diana 15.

Oh wow! All this old gal needs is a Compass in the stock and a thing that tells time and she would be a real sweetheart of an airgun.

I had that very model when I was about 10 in 1957. My father bought it for me for Christmas. It came with pellets and darts which were fine in a smooth barrel. Notsure you can get darts these days. Started my life long love of shooting. Thank you for a great video.

You did an excellent job on it, my great uncle worked in the Millbro factory in Motherwell.

Nice job,thanks for the video.

Great work, thanks!

I had a daisy, found childhood memories. Well done.

Diana is known as the goddess of the Hunt but she is also known as the protector of children.

Nice work

Much much beautiful then indian airguns..👍🏻

What a fine little beauty! Good job rebuilding it

I have a Diana 15 with the "Made in West Germany" marking. Got a few issues with a missing screw & nut and the latch locking does not seem as solid as supposed. It still shoot OK, but will be fixed when I come around to it. It's a nice hobby to pursuit now when retired...

Awesome video!!!!!

@canuckair

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Glad you enjoyed it

I wouldn't quite put the Diana 15,or number 1,in the toy category as they have enough power to embed the pellets into your skin!They are about 350 FPS as I recall whereas a model 25 is about 600 FPS in .177 and the 27 about 700 FPS.

First rifle was a model 16

Your videos are entertaining and informative. Have you seen an English pistol called THE GAT J-101? Other markings are: "Made in England T.J. Harrington & Son Walton Surrey. This is a bit of a beast, cocked by pushing the muzzle in against a very strong spring until the sear engages. The breech is then unscrewed, a pellet loaded, the breech replaced, and the pistol fired.

@canuckair

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Yes, I remember my dad having one for a short time when we lived in England. I've seen them offered for sale locally, but at rather unreasonable prices. But I do have my eye out for one, if only for nostalgia reasons.

The bore being brass it makes it quite easy to put rifling in it with some manually operated device.

@canuckair

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Rifled brass barrels have been used - most commonly in Benjamin and Sheridan (bronze) air guns. I expect Diana could have rifled the Model 15, but that would have been an added expense outside its low-cost audience. Trying to rifle it after the fact won't work as the bore is currently the diameter of a .177 pellet, and adding rifling grooves would just give a nice way for all that pressure to escape around the pellet sides. A rifled barrel needs to cut into the pellet and grip it firmly to make it spin. With brass, you'd probably start with the tube the diameter of the "lands" of the rifling, then cut the "grooves" into it for the pellet's diameter.

I wish my last Girlfriend had come with a warning that she came with issues.

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I’m surprised it shoots so hard. I’m going to try to find one

I’m watching this video because I’m restoring Daisy 160 and this is only video what shows how to put it together. But inside the gun. That tube and leather sills are in different order on my gun. It goes like that. Leather sel tube with wide end , still washer , leather sil with brass washer inside can someone help me with that?

what size pellets does this rifle take?

@canuckair

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Regular .177 pellets. But it will also shoot darts, as there's no rifling to damage with steel darts.

could I kindly ask you to say UK rather than England for the benefits of us Welsh Scottish and northern Irish 🙂 😊

@Bill23799

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To help with spelling a friend told me that Wales is by the sea and whales are in the sea.

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