Some examples of ways to sling a DIANA airgun

[HectorMedina]

https://www.ctcustomairguns.com/hectors-airgun-blog/slinging-the-dianas

Hope you enjoy!






HM

[Roadworthy]

As usual, thank you for sharing some tricks of sling installation.  You have sling installation methods I didn't even dream existed.

[Blowpipe Sam]

Hector.  Thanks for posting this!  I have a Magazine tube style mount on two of my breakbarrels.  I've never seen anyone else do it.  I figured it was probably because of either fears about strain on the barrel lock up or effects on accuracy.  I haven't noticed any POI change when using a sling mount like this and so far no loosening of the lock up on either gun.

[Stinger177]

Thanks for that Hector!

That Pachmayr Q/R style is a nice touch!

I love slings. The HW35E comes with sling swivels already attached, the forward one being a mid-barrel mount.

My 1974 ARH HW30S-X was offered back them with the sling option. Not wanting to ruin the original ARH stock, I bought a newer Beeman R7 stock and added the sling swivels to that stock, along with the barrel clamp style at the breech end. The forward clamp swivel is a 16mm clamp on a 15mm barrel to allow for a leather wrap underneath, as you mentioned. This was to prevent any damage to the barrel's finish, and also to provide some grip, again, as you mention.

Below is my 1970 HW35L which came with the sling mounts already attached. The sling itself is not original to the rifle, but it is a period correct German AKAH brand.




Here is my HW30S-X. Below that is the forward barrel clamp mount.





This is the ARH ad for that rifle as they supplied it. Note the forward mount on the stock itself.




Prior to these slings, the only other that I ever had was when I was about ten years old. It was a piece of clothesline rope wrapped around each end of my Daisy Red Ryder!!

What are your thoughts on the slotted stock style as seen on Mausers?



Thanks again Hector!!

 

[fwbsport]

Hector, I've got an HW80K .22 with sling slots for 3/4".

Where can I get those?

[DLP]

I put a sling on my Beeman R10 when I was shooting FT back in 93. Still holding strong. I inlaid a plate in the side of the stock with a sling stud. It doesn’t touch the barrel or the tube at all. Lies across your back better than any rifle I have ever carried.

[HectorMedina]

@ Tom.- Thanks for reading, my friend!

@ BpSam.- It is often an overlooked method, but mainly because HW positioned theirs a bit too forward in the barrel and people were afraid that tensioning the sling would open the barrel before a shot (more on that later).
I have found two versions of the "RF magazine" ring to be useful: One comes as a thin steel piece that needs to be pried open and then re-closed (my preferred method, but not always available), and then another that has two Half-rings . In SOME cases I do prefer the to half rings as they leave a very elegant gap at the barrel's top, but for strength and utility, the well-fitted pry-open one cannot be beat.
Thanks for your kind words.

@ Dennis.- Don't get riled about my above statement of the HW mount being too far forward. The truth is that since springers should NOT (except for the 54)  be shot under tension of any sort, the sling was a pure carry sling and so the position was correct, specially in the days of non-scoped and therefore more forward balanced, rifles. Nowadays with almost all airguns being scoped, the balance has shifted backwards and the forward sling can also be moved backwards.
The ARH ad is typical of the era, my only grief with that style of mount is that is sets the full weight of the rifle on one of the thinnest parts of the stock. Even using a counternut, I would not be willing to do such an installation.
There is another way of slinging the DIANA 34/350/Mauser, but it is so expensive as to be useless, and that is to make a special metal ring thar replaces the "C" clip in the pin that locks the cocking linkage between barrel and piston/extension. It is a custom made part and uses a SMALL grub screw to hold the pin in place, the pin acts as axle to the sling swivel. It can also be done for HW's.
You end up with what HATSAN or GAMO install from the factory, which is VERY workable and convenient, but to do it by hand for ONE gun takes a LOT of time.

@ John.- Almost any sling will be 3/4" at the ends., apart from the Cobra and other HP-oriented ones that are 1"
This one should fit:


@DLP.-  Interesting, ¿any pictures? Thanks for reading!





HM