I've been eyeballin the Diana 240 for some time now. It appealed to me with its light weight,easy cocking and handy size...so I bought one.
First thoughts were "Man this is Small!" Seems quite nicely put together and is frankly, a Pretty little thing!
Wood is well finished and it has a plastic buttplate. (Wish it was rubber but ARH has some nice ones if an upgrade ends up happening.) Metal looks great too.
It was pretty dry and crunchy initially and was diesling pretty good,so I broke it down and cleaned/re-lubed it. Still a little crunchy but not objectional.
Evening was going fast so I took it out with a few different pellets and had at it. I also brought along a 3-12 SF Bugbuster I had on hand and being that iron sights are hard on my eyes,I slapped it on. Much more enjoyable to see the targets.LOL!!
Here are some pics...
And some preliminary groups.Seemed to like the RWS R 10 MATCH 7.0 grain wadcutters. Here is 10 at 20 yds...
And here is 20 at 25 yds. Kinda rushed a few shots as the mosquitos were suckin the Life outta me...
With all the "Daystate this" and "FX that",a modest little spring gun probably isn't much to get excited about these days for a lot of folks. But I must say...aside from the mosquitos,I was having a BLAST!
Tomorrow I plan on testing slugs out of it.
(Just Kidding! LMAO!!)
Mike.
First thoughts were "Man this is Small!" Seems quite nicely put together and is frankly, a Pretty little thing!
Wood is well finished and it has a plastic buttplate. (Wish it was rubber but ARH has some nice ones if an upgrade ends up happening.) Metal looks great too.
It was pretty dry and crunchy initially and was diesling pretty good,so I broke it down and cleaned/re-lubed it. Still a little crunchy but not objectional.
Evening was going fast so I took it out with a few different pellets and had at it. I also brought along a 3-12 SF Bugbuster I had on hand and being that iron sights are hard on my eyes,I slapped it on. Much more enjoyable to see the targets.LOL!!
Here are some pics...
And some preliminary groups.Seemed to like the RWS R 10 MATCH 7.0 grain wadcutters. Here is 10 at 20 yds...
And here is 20 at 25 yds. Kinda rushed a few shots as the mosquitos were suckin the Life outta me...
With all the "Daystate this" and "FX that",a modest little spring gun probably isn't much to get excited about these days for a lot of folks. But I must say...aside from the mosquitos,I was having a BLAST!
Tomorrow I plan on testing slugs out of it.
(Just Kidding! LMAO!!)
Mike.