It’s a plastic one with a red and white dot on it, so easy to see if it’s on or not. You are then greeted with an automatic safety catch which is located at the back of the receiver/cylinder just above the pistol grip, nice spot for it if you ask me. Then keeping hold of the under-lever, simply press the anti-bear trap button and take it back up to its original position under the barrel. Load the pellet (.177 on this test gun) straight into the barrel via its HW97-type breech (which is a little fiddly with. Yep, it’s got a good ‘old anti-finger crushing device positioned rear right of the loading port that pushes down to disengage. The Diana is quite a heavy one to cock but you soon get the ‘knack’ of it rather than ‘knackered’ from doing it! Pull that under-lever all of the way down and back until it clicks and the anti-bear trap engages. The front unit is a post as opposed to a blade, but has an authentic looking steel protector. Would I put a scope on it? Yes! But only one that would complement the rifle’s history, or in layman’s terms, nothing big, hi-tech or modern looking! The iron sights are good, though the rear is fully adjustable compared to the original V-notch, tangent type.
I don’t think you can really argue with that for just irons! I’ve got to say, it’s not bad at all! Using just the open iron sights I was getting around 1” groups at 30 yards with RWS Superdomes. Beaten up betterĪll of the metal work is blued and has a good deep finish to it but to be honest you kind of want this rifle to be a little ‘beat up’ to make it look the part! The barrel is 18” long and obviously rifled, which brings us nicely to accuracy. The ‘top wood’ looks great between the rear sight and the fake barrel band, oh and by the way, the front sling attachment is located on the left-hand side of the barrel band, so like I said, you really do need to put a nice ‘original’ leather sling on it. Even the under-lever looks like the cleaning rod/bayonet lug on the original, though a bit fatter!Īnyway, back to that stock, pretty much fully ambidextrous with a nice fat pistol grip and then it just flows into the forend with the underside cut out for the under-lever and cocking of the rifle. So if you wanted to really make this rifle look like the real thing, then I reckon that would be the first accessory that you would need to get your mitts on! Now, obviously this rifle is not a 100% replica of the K98, as it is after all an air rifle but you really have to hand it to Diana for keeping all the airgun cosmetics fairly subtle.
#Reproduction mauser k98 full size
This Airgun from Diana is not light weight, weighing in at just over 8 lbs, but, we don’t care about the weight with these good looks! Fairly long to at 44” with an 18” barrel but remember this is a full size replica! Good woodĪ closer look starting from the stock then, it’s made from beech and it’s a pretty damn good copy of the K98’s, with a metal butt plate for added comfort! It even has the rear sling slot and it looks like the original sling would fit too. The Karabiner 98k still continues to appear in conflicts across the world, as they have the dust blown off them during times of trouble. Millions were captured by the Soviets at the end of World War II and were widely distributed as military aid. Despite advances in machine guns and assault rifles it remained the main German service rifle until the end of the war in 1945. It was one of the final developments in the long line of Mauser military rifles that started in the 19th century. The Karabiner 98 kurz (carbine 98 short, often abbreviated as Kar98k, K98, or K98k) is a bolt-action rifle chambered for the 7.92×57mm IS cartridge that was adopted on 21 June 1935 as the standard service rifle by the German Wehrmacht. Indian merchants are unable to mark merchandise values below actual purchase price or mark international parcels as “gifts” - Indian and international government regulations prohibit such practices.If you love airguns and firearm replicas then I think you are going to love this one! The Mauser K98 under-lever gas-ram Air Rifle from Diana! This is one of those guns that just makes you grin just looking at it, let alone shooting it! So I’ll just give you a quick history lesson on the K98, just to get you up to speed on this famous military rifle.
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