Diana RWS 34

the standed in airguns,all others take back seat

excellent airgun. rws best seller

I expected a very nice shooting gun, but this exceeded all expectations. The Wood is very nice with a perfect finish. The fit and finish of everything is superb. Cocking it is smooth and once again the quality is apparent. If you are serious about shooting air rifles this is an excellent gun for anyone that wants to move up to a super high quality air rifle that is incredibly accurate and beautifully built. It has the heft of a similar firearm in every way. Well worth the price.

Pros
Absolutely incredible! The quality is excellent +

Cons
Zero problems Zero complaints

Overall, even with the minor issues, this is the best pellet rifle I've ever owned. I feel confident that I can hit what I'm aiming at. I can keep a target moving and hit it repeatedly, at 50 yards shooting from a rest. Very accurate, very fun to use, even with the recent cocking problem, I love the rifle. I highly recommend this rifle.

Pros
Well made rifle, solid, excellent blue, good finish on the hard wood stock. Sighted it in with the open sights, really accurate. Have a target at 50 yds with hanging golf balls. Able to hit one ball after another with the open sights. Added a scope, able to hit 1" plastic eye drop bottles at 75 yds. At 50 yds can get get 1" groups. Most consistent break barrel .22 I've had, including Beeman, Benjamin, Gamo, Ruger. It hits consistently most every time, occassionally have to regroup, but not like the previous listed guns.

Cons
The base plate is plastic and slippery, a rubber plate would prevent slippage. The screws at the trigger guard and fore-end become loose after each shoot, this has to be watched. The safety, that will not allow you to choose not to shoot the round and go back to 'safe'. I have shot around 5,000 rounds, and two days ago I was unable to cock the rifle. Will contact customer service for help with this.

There I was, stranded in the Pacific Ocean, just me, and my raft and my trusty Diana 34 Refurb/returned. Suddenly, a great white shark appeared, and began circling my raft. Using an RWS Super magnum 300 grain hollow based, mercy tipped diablo maximum penetration tipped killer expando-commando pellet, I delivered a kill shot.

Pros
Powerful

Cons
Double taps sometimes

Why would they do that to us? We don't harm the chipmunks yards...

Pros
Beautiful Rifle, accurate and balances well. Best air rifle ever made, PERIOD!

Cons
Chipmunks are now toting mini RWS 34's and murdering humans!

20 to 40 yard shots with my mil dot UTG scope mounted, and any random ranges in between that do not reqiire a different aim point. This rifle (.177) shoots flat at these ranges. Most of my informal lightly supported offhand shooting is producing dime to nickel size groups and that's more than good enough for "minute of varmint angle" accuracy.

Great rifle and great value
AIRGUN DEPOT was right on time with shipping and order handling.
If you want a quality break barrel spring piston rifle the Diana 34 is the one to get for a quality piece and very accurate practical plinker and small game/varmint/pest control rifle. You will be well pleased.
Thank you.
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Pros
Always have admired the Diana 34 and finally got one. I am not disappointed one bit in the quality of fit, finish, ease of use and practical shootability. My preferred pellet so far is 7.9 grain round nose hollow point premier. The average of a 20 shot chronographed string is 936.3 fps with 15.37 fpe. I installed a UTG 3x9x32 with the included rings directly onto the Diana mount base. One inch target dots set at 20, 25, 30, and 40 yards are not much of a challenge to keep every shot on that one inch circle and that's just shooting with minimal hand support. I plan to get a shooting bench set up and use some cushions for better support to see just how tight the groups will be. The T06 trigger is excellent just as it came.

Cons
The sights are good and easy to see and use even for my 61 year old eyes that do have problems but the sights are the only important item on this rifle made from plastic and mine have a lot of loose motion and move around making for larger groups if you plan to use them exclusively. They should be of tighter tolerances. Even though the shipping container was double boxed and sturdy, my rifle took a nose dive somewhere along the way and the rifle barrel punched thru the plastic bag it is placed inside of and the styrofoam padding blocks and dented the cardboard deeply. I was afraid the rifle was damaged and had difficulty breaking the barrel open and had to clean styrofoam out of the barrel that had been forced down the bore. All came out very well but I would suggest that more padding be added to the outside shipping carton to better cushion the rifle when the trucking and shipping companies throw the packages around off the dock and slam them to the concrete falling off conveyors.

My gun came and was very dry all over and I had to service it. The spring was just loud and dry during cocking so I oiled it and all the hinge points on the rifle. After a few hundred shots I could hear the piston seal starting to honk like a goose so I put 2 or 3 drops down the chamber and I also loosened the cocking arm bolt just a bit because it was very stiff and I'm a large man. After some frustration and several different pellets including the JB Exact Jumbo and the Crossman Premier HP which shoots well in every other gun I own this one was all over the place at 35 yards off a sandbag. Then I put the RWS Wadcutter pellets in it and magic happened. Very tight groups at 35 yards. Now this gun is a pleasure to shoot and extremely accurate but remember it may be dry when you get it. My experience was somewhat exactly like Rick Eutslers review on Youtube with this gun but I'm so glad I bought it.

Pros
Simplicity of the rifle

Cons
Nothing

To reengage safety, pull up slightly on safety lever and pull back and weapon will now be on safe. A little bit of a pain but it works.

Pros
Update on my earlier review. I stated that once the safety is taken off it can no be put back on safety. I have now found that by pulling up slightly on safety lever the safety can be reengaged. So overall I am pleased with this weapon!

Cons
NONE

Here is my honest opinion. Right out of the box, the first thing I noticed is the weight, its got a heft to it. This is not a negative but
actually a positive as weight adds stability and that equals accuracy. The second thing I noticed was the finish of the barrel, its outstanding. You actually feel like you are picking up a high powered rifle. The stock although not figured like a nice piece of walnut has a nice golden glow to it and like wood warm to the touch. The next thing I noticed was the fiber optic sights, they really glow in the sunlight, green on the rear sights and
red on the front, a great contrast. They are so good that I will forgo the use of a scope for now. The trigger is adjustable for play and
weight. Mine has too much free travel but trigger pull is fine for now. Its fairly easy to cock
but only 1 shot at a time. Rapid fire is not going to happen like your old Crossman 760.
The accuracy is spot on and you will have no trouble picking off small game with this weapon.
There is some plastic on this weapon but its not a real big deal
to me. The main part of the gun is the barrel, stock and the sight and they are great.
For the price, compared to the rest of the market, is a bargain.

Pros
Lowest price for a quality weapon, outstanding accuracy, excellent fiber optic sights.

Cons
The negatives are the following: Its slow to load but once loaded its deadly accurate. The only real negative and for me its a bad one. Once loaded and you flip the safety off, believe it or not you cannot put it back on safe. How stupid is that, to me that is really senseless. The fiber optic sights although very nice, become terrible when the sun is not out or you are shooting in a covered shooting station.