Beautiful. I just picked up my childhood guns and brought home. Daisy guns, but still nice to have. Way to keep yours with you.

My granddad had a beautiful, huge (to me as a 6 or 7 year old kid) Diana model 34 or possibly a 350 and he had a few other guns that were hung up on a rack in his bedroom and I distinctly remember being able to go and grab any other rifle or shotgun that hung on that particular rack mostly .22s, and shotguns but I had better not touch that Diana that sat on the top rung of that rack, that one was completely off limits to me. He really cherished that rifle and now I own a 34 and I see why. Excellent video as per usual and it's good to see a video as I haven't had one of yours pop up on my feed for awhile. I've been into blackpowder stuff lately and KZfaq sends you what you what they want to.

Have the same model 36. I think I paid less than $100 for it back then. It also does not have the raised scope base like the current models. I seem to remember reading those early models had a slightly shorter compression cylinder. Thanks for the review!

Nice! I don't blame you for going with the 36 as the base 34 can be a bit plain. I found an RWS / Diana 48 in .177 at a pawn shop about 20 years ago and had to buy it. It was the first time I had seen a Germen Springer in person. Had a Air Rifle Headquarter catalog I ordered as a kid and drooled over all the nice Spring guns in it growing up. The idea of not having to pump a gun up 8-10 times, Just cock the barrel and shoot was a dream of mine back then. The 48 I bought is either a 04/ 84 or 94. The stamp is hard to read. It has several bumps and scoffs too. I bought a Gamo Shadow 1000 a few years later and realized my 48 was weak on power. Had a blown breech seal. I fixed it and put a Vortex kit in it about 7-8 years ago. Shot it a bit, but I bought any other airgun, and another, and several others and never got back to it lol. These Diana's are good solid built rifles. The break barrels and even fixed barrels had a reputation of having barrel droop. I guess it could happen with the iron sights too since the droop I think comes from the hole bored in the breech the barrel goes into. Even some HW break barrels can have droop or use too. An older gentleman on Gateway to Airguns that shoots target competitions with HW95's explained how he bent the barrels very slightly up using a fork in a tree to correct them. If you scope it and can adjust it up enough at 25-30 yards you will know. They also make mounts to correct barrel droop. I have one for my 48 just in case, but don't remember if I needed it. A Diana 460 Magnum has been on my list for for a long time. I remember they feel amazing in the hands and looks just as good. One day I'll find one at a price I can't pass up.

Very nice rifle and reminds me of my 90’s Beeman R10.🤠🇺🇸

Diana is the builder and RWS was the distributor. The 36 does not have a stop pinhole for the scope mount, but the 34 does. The only difference between the 36 and the 34 is the rubber butt pad and stifling on the pistol grip.

Quality 👍🍻

Forgot you had that nice, old rifle Scott 😅😁👍 My first quality air rifle was my Diana 34 T01 I got around the same age you did; I didn't treat mine the best either, but my buddy has it now & after more than twenty years, it still is working last I knew... always was a buzzy gun to shoot, but certainly well made for sure 👍 I believe the Models 36 and 34 of that style share a rear sight, and thus likely parts too, but I can't confirm that... If you can't sort your rear sight out, I'd recommend going with a peep sight on the receiver; you get a long sight radius that way, and that Diana pointed blade front post works well with a peep in my experience 👍 You also have the luxury of using inserts with your front sight unit, a capability the more plebian 34 lacked in stock form... Speaking of front sight globes & inserts, I've been looking at the Hatsan QE break barrels like your 130S, and it seems the front sight on these is dovetailed into the barrel shroud the same way it is on the Daisy 753. I suspect this means the Daisy front sight globe, along with something like the Air Venturi unit (I believe TruGlo also makes a globe sight for airguns, or at least did) might well fit on these Hatsans, allowing you to improve their front sight capabilities; again, I cannot prove this, but it definitely seems like a plausible idea...I guess one way to test it would be to see if that Diana front sight unit, which Is also dovetailed in, might fit on your Hatsan.....but I'm sure you don't want to fiddle with that....I'm just hypothesizing here apparently 🤔😅😅 Obviously, the size and design of these different dovetails could all vary a bit, potentially making my ideas moot, but I thought it was an interesting thought to consider.... I bet it would be neat have one of those QE Hatsans set-up with a globe front sight and a peep rear; if doable, I think it could really improve the utility of the big bore models like your's without the weight and potential hassles of finding an appropriate optic.... I'm glad you fixed your 130 breech issues & understand your frustrations with Hatsan; their lack of consistent QC belies the fact that they CAN make very good guns when they want to do so.... Anyways, enough of my ramblings & thanks for the trip down memory lane Scott 😁👍 For what it's worth, I too enjoy the channel as-is, but would be OK with you reviewing some products if you really wanted to try them out and/or thought they'd appeal to your channel audience... 😳👍

Niceeeeeeeee😍😍😍😍

Sweet gun man . They made them with such high quality back then .

Cool! It has character! Not sure if you want to keep it original or not but I'm pretty sure you may be able to do repairs on the wood. I've done it on a couple of my old 760s.

I have the same rings and the leather hand stitched and crafted sling.

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Sweet gun I got my rws 34 in around '98, it looks real similar, prob the biggest difference is the safety on the newer one is flush with the rear cap, was always a pain to put it back on.

@thatalaskaguy-airguns Scott, what I can say is that RWS is an old German trademark with a rather convoluted history; RUAG Ammotech acquired Dynamit Nobel, who made the RWS pellets. RUAG was bought by Umarex in 2006, and the Big U still distributes said pellets when last I knew. Diana meanwhile was bought out by German Sport Guns in 2014, whereupon their production moved to GSG's facility, where I believe it occupies half their factory. Reputable scuttlebutt has it that Diana, now owned by GSG (which is at least partly owned by the same L&O Holdings Group that owns Sig Sauer), put pressure on Sig to pull the plug on its promising ASP20 gas ram break barrel because they didn't want the marketplace competition... 🤔🤦🔥👎 Sig evidently complied, as the ASP20 was very short-lived despite getting excellent reception from many, including no less than Jon at Keystone Airguns himself 👍 That's about all I can definitively add, but I thought it worth mentioning...