Hello there my wonderful springer compatriots! I’ve run into an intriguing yet bizarre issue…not many would call it an issue. Basically my Diana 34 is very underpowered (chronograph 680 FPS-10.9 ft/lbs), but that’s what makes it special. I recently acquired this rifle as my project and installed an OEM spring because the original was shattered from 2 places (should be around 13-14 F.P.E.). Also, I ended up buying a vortek piston seal that I meticulously “lightened” by removing some inner bits. I like to go a little heavy with the grease and I’m thinking that might be the issue…regardless a very ODD event occurred at the range yesterday.
Before that though, I must say that my first shot was very powerful. I tested it on a block of wood and it was nearly twice the penetration of my 12.5 ft/lb Air Arms TX200. Fast forward to the range (target at 35 yards)…I’ve taken 50 other shots and I noticed that the stock screws were coming loose…of course I already knew this because both screws were stripped and so I ordered new ones coming tomorrow.
NOW on to the very strange incident. I was at 35 yards as I said in the aforementioned paragraph (36 to be exact), on a somewhat windy day. My first 50 shots were terrible..shootin like a shotgun. I managed to get 3 shots to group but they weren’t anything magnificent so I got tired…blaming it on the loose screws and maybe the pellet I put the rifle away…ON TO THE TX200 and obviously that’s shooting well because…you know…v-mach tune. Fast forward again I decide to take the Diana 34 out again to try these really old batch of Barracuda 10.65 grains that I forgot I had…and BAM!!! 4 shots in the same hole (I mean the same hole!) and then once again the groups became terrible with the occasional pellet next to pellet. I sat for a second and I didn’t know what to think. Good pellets? Good tune?
The gun still kicks like a mule even though it’s at 10.9 ft/lbs (but damn is it smooth to cock…as smooth as my v-Mach TX200 and my HW95 oddly enough)…which tells me that something is off with the piston seal…maybe I shouldn’t have lightened anything…but then no 4 shots in same hole would’ve ever happened. Or maybe overgreased? Maybe this is what Bob Ross meant when he said “we don’t make mistakes, only happy little accidents.” Well anyways that being said, I’d appreciate anyone’s two cents. Thanks.
HEY WHATEVER HAPPENED TO ODOYLE AND YO?!?
Before that though, I must say that my first shot was very powerful. I tested it on a block of wood and it was nearly twice the penetration of my 12.5 ft/lb Air Arms TX200. Fast forward to the range (target at 35 yards)…I’ve taken 50 other shots and I noticed that the stock screws were coming loose…of course I already knew this because both screws were stripped and so I ordered new ones coming tomorrow.
NOW on to the very strange incident. I was at 35 yards as I said in the aforementioned paragraph (36 to be exact), on a somewhat windy day. My first 50 shots were terrible..shootin like a shotgun. I managed to get 3 shots to group but they weren’t anything magnificent so I got tired…blaming it on the loose screws and maybe the pellet I put the rifle away…ON TO THE TX200 and obviously that’s shooting well because…you know…v-mach tune. Fast forward again I decide to take the Diana 34 out again to try these really old batch of Barracuda 10.65 grains that I forgot I had…and BAM!!! 4 shots in the same hole (I mean the same hole!) and then once again the groups became terrible with the occasional pellet next to pellet. I sat for a second and I didn’t know what to think. Good pellets? Good tune?
The gun still kicks like a mule even though it’s at 10.9 ft/lbs (but damn is it smooth to cock…as smooth as my v-Mach TX200 and my HW95 oddly enough)…which tells me that something is off with the piston seal…maybe I shouldn’t have lightened anything…but then no 4 shots in same hole would’ve ever happened. Or maybe overgreased? Maybe this is what Bob Ross meant when he said “we don’t make mistakes, only happy little accidents.” Well anyways that being said, I’d appreciate anyone’s two cents. Thanks.
HEY WHATEVER HAPPENED TO ODOYLE AND YO?!?
