Took the Diana 54 out to 100 yards today

Well done! I love these guns. I love the TX200SR's as well. I would love to see an HW97 offered on a sledge system.

Great shooting Sir!
I was shooting my .20 54 last week, pretty windy but managed to shoot ok for a group before the wind kicked up again. Not cherry picked, I quit while ahead.

These 54s sure do perform.

Mitch.

mh and biohazardman,

This is what I've been saying with my own D54 .20 CCA 27 Von 30. This kind of accuracy in this model and this caliber weens the very best out of the springer.

Very nice targets and thank you for posting your two rifle's from CCA and what they do.

Kindly,

My hat is off to you guys for first of all attempting to shoot your Springers at 100 yards, maybe more importantly, awesome groups. 


I have spent quite a bit of time myself at 100 yards pursuing small groups with Springers. It’s not easy. But man is it satisfying.

congratulations!

Great groups 

mike

Well gee I'd like to introduce the heavy .20 JSB into this picture! 

Very nice shooting. I bought a 54 pro lam when they came out, Haven’t put 50 rounds through it. Life’s a blur. 
Your shooting encourages me to hunt it down, knock off the dust and shoot it. It’s a different bird with screw tensions. 

I got it because O’doyle always said 54-100 yds. all day long. Crow 

Awesome shooting with the 54. I will have to test the capability of my 54 at 100 yds.

The recoilless feature of the D54 had attracted me in the midst of San Rafael Beeman springers of all models in 1982. 

I never invested because to me every time I held a sidelever compared to a Beeman or HW break barrel I felt the rifle was off balance.

It really demands a "learn ya a lesson about the D54!" before starting to learn how to use it.

They are way different and I see mine still representing "the other side of the sidelever" and why it is as old as Aurthur Conan Doyle in his Sherlock Holmes Series from 221 Baker St.

!

In a Sherlock Holmes Mystery is a sidelever air rifle.............



Now let's see who knows the specific adventure.

Mysteriously put,

John

Groups look good. Still haven't shot my 54 I picked up 7 months ago, just haven't had time. When i was younger i had more time but no money. Now, I have more money and no time....go figure. I enjoy shooting the recoiless guns. Mainly shoot the 150 & 300 in the backyard.

I’m a long time 54 owner. I don’t have the guts or the compunction to shoot 100yds with it. I always figured it would be about a 10 inch group. But, what the hell, I’m game. Next time out I’ll give it a go. 

I’m a long time 54 owner. I don’t have the guts or the compunction to shoot 100yds with it. I always figured it would be about a 10 inch group. But, what the hell, I’m game. Next time out I’ll give it a go.

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Absolutely, give it a shot (pun intended) you have nothing to loose. Awhile back I was doing some shooting at 90 yrds with a couple of HW95s. My groups off the bench were not that great but I was able to keep my shots on a paper plate. Then I did some offhand shooting as well. That's the longest distance I ever shot with an airgun. It was a lot of fun.

I’m a long time 54 owner. I don’t have the guts or the compunction to shoot 100yds with it. I always figured it would be about a 10 inch group. But, what the hell, I’m game. Next time out I’ll give it a go.

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Definitely. Make sure the scope is clear, distinct, precise, focused, and properly centered and zeroed to your rifle to adjust elevation and windage or at least compensate elevation and windage with hash marks on your scope showing it.

My D54 .20 has a 3-10X 40mm Traditions Black Powder Scope (discontinued years ago but optically brilliant and full of integrity to click sideways or vertically to 100 yards).

You will need to SEE CLEARLY out there with proper parallax adjustment and centering of center of scope lens to bore line.

You'll be surprised at the accuracy in a D54 recoilless in any caliber as long as your scope is on a recoilless mount (Diana Zero Recoil Mount) and bore centered to center of lens at 40 or so yards. It WILL reach over 100 yards to make groups allowing you to sight in THERE at over 100 yards or there about (in .20 mine does. In .177 I doubt it too much narrowness in the bore of a .177 to reap the best mechanical efficiency and the .22 is perhaps a tad too large for it but should be better than a .177).

Kindly,

That’s what my 25 yard groups look like lol. Still trying to figure the best hold methods for accuracy! Do you hunt with the d54 or just plink around?

I never shoot an air rifle sitting or prone or stabilized even with a wall behind me.

I just wait till the crosswires on the scope waver to the zero and figure the trigger at the "right" moment.

But I know the D54 is capable of accuracy at 100 yards easily in the right pellet and scope and mount and ring configuration all put together to beat any other air rifle in competition unless you want to go Olympic with Free Rifles and Anschutz.

Jeeze,

I got demerits from the moderators who don't know me.

They took away 3 accuracy points and now I want to wonder who they are invested in to make this blog site that had CORN PONE.

Jeeze,

I got demerits from the moderators who don't know me.

They took away 3 accuracy points and now I want to wonder who they are invested in to make this blog site that had CORN PONE.

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Just out of curiousity, have you gone to actually look at your "accuracy" in your profile? I just did myself and I'm kinda curious how you have +4 since 2 of the comments made were negative ones in which case, you should actually only have a +2. 

Don't remember exactly when, but AGN used to allow for negative points and changed the rules about those awhile back because members were abusing it. I think it's also against forum rules to give a + point then make a negative comment. Might well be why you lost points if some of those comments were negative but you'd have to ask Micheal or a moderator.

Bio, great shooting and same to you Mitch. I forgot you had one of those D54 .20's.