Question on the Diana 54 airking series

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L4z4r0s

L4z4r0s

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Hello everyone!!

I'm still in the quest for a new high end springer air rifle and a "new" rifle that I've been researching about is the diana 54 airking. Some owners have reported barrel droop on the rifle and i was just wondering how common is this issue with this rifle considering that it's a fixed barrel gun and the fixed barrel theoretically prevents barrel droop.



Any other input on the rifle, especially the new production "pro" version would be welcome!!



Thanks in advance!!!
 
It does have considerable barrel droop and they can be total scope killers.


i have owned three of them and currently have a 56 which is the same rifle only with a thumbhole stock and no sights.


They are extremely accurate rifles and extremely heavy. Great bench guns but nothing I would want to carry to field hint with.


The droop condition is easily solved. Use an RWS one piece “lockdown” mount. It has built in compensation.


I had Tom build me a custom length spring inserted into the PG3 steel sleeve reducing my rifle down to about 16 fps shooting the AA 18.0 grain pellet. Virtually no recoil, extremely smooth and deadly accurate, shooting consistent <1” groups at 50 yards.


Good luck!


 
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I thought the 54 with recoil compensation would be gentle on scopes. Am I mistaken?

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The recoil compensation basically "eliminates" the recoil that would be felt from the user of the rifle. That said the rifle still recoils and because of the sleight action that it has there is still wear & tear being absorbed by the scope. In order to avoid destroying your optical sight, you should use a zero recoil mount (plus the sight must be springer rated for increased longevity). These are some of the stuff that I've learned so far about this rifle!
 
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Okay so a little bit of an update for this thread; I corresponded with Mr. Hector Medina about the d54. The whole barrel droop issue on fixed barrel air rifles is a myth. What I mean by this statement, is that the barrel is perfectly colinear/aligned with the rest of the gun and *not* bent or canted in any way. The reason why there might be "droop" beyond a certain range is because the scope basically "sits" on a line that is parallel to the one of the barrel. Those two lines/axes need to be aligned in order to achieve as much accuracy as possible and in order to achieve this, a scope mount with a built in angle is recommended.
 
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Agree with Hector's findings!!!! Any actual droop would not be noticible...barrel droop is often an over used term when folks have difficulty zeroin their scope.
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Yes this is what I've noticed too! Especially when it comes to fixed barrel air rifles! Some will keep on talking about droop when in reality the barrel seems to be straight as an arrow without any noticeable droop. 
 
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