New member, getting back into air rifles.

Ok, I think for once I'm going to use my brain haha, otherwise I'll end up spending 5k to shoot a handfull of myna's.

I thought to myself "I'll pick up guitar again", so I ended up with two guitars worth about 5k each and all the crap to go along with them.

I thought "I'll ride to work to get fitter for mountain biking" so I got an 18k road bike to commute on.....then another the same (in a different colour) for a nice weekend rider. 

I think I'd better just get something like the Diana range for now...

I just have to choose between and 34 EMS and the 340 N-Tec as there doesn't seem to be stock of the Ar8 anywhere. 

Edited by R0b0tMaf1a - 04 May 2026 at 7:16pm

KiwiTR6 wrote: I'd suggest the 34 with synthetic stock over the other for what you've said you want to do.

Most of my hunting will be done from my balcony 

Just a few myna's, maybe a feral cat or two, and then just targets. I'm ok with either wood or synthetic as I'm very fussy and extremely careful with how I treat my things so would be unlikely to damage it.

I find weight an issue. The tx was heavy gun. Avoid it if wieght is an issue. 97 has a sling due to its weight as did the tx.

Neither the diana or the sig had slings.
Im still not sure if its the stock shape but both i carried. Sig did feel heavier.
Having said all that the tx was the only wooden stock.

The Sig is also noticeably heavy though....

Edited by KiwiTR6 - 03 May 2026 at 7:57pm

kruzaroad wrote: Basics on wedges .

I would hate to see your FULL breakdown haha.

I do understand some of the basics....but only due to playing some video games where bullet drop is a factor and you have to make distance calculations etc.

I did however think that it was all built into the scope and if you dialled up distance, it would adjust the scope angle at the same time. I was not aware it was mechanical.

Basics on wedges .
Pellets start arcing down as soon as they are in the air. The arc gets sharper as the speed drops off, the further away it gets.
So the pellet is never really any higher than when it leaves the barrel
If your scope was level with the barrel you would never have a place where the line of sight crosses over where the pellet flys.
So they don't. Scopes have a slight downward angle .
Now your line of sight is a strait line that because it has a slight angle towards the barrel it will go through the arc of pellet at two points. One will be close one will further away.
You set your zero where you want it intersect that arc. That means part of the arc of the pellet will appear above the line of sight and part below. These are your hold overs and unders.
Wedges go between the scope rings and the scope and make that angle more downwards. That means the strait line of sight will be able to intersect the pellet arc earlier and later. That means more of the arc is outside the strait line of sight.That means you use more hold over points to accomplish that.
Examples hw97 wedged scope covers 13 mildots over a 100m
Diana none wedged scope approx 3 mildots over same distance.
Hw97 15,20,25m are basically one mildot separation at two mildot hold over.
Diana none shimmed (another word for wedge) scope.
15,20,25m is a half mildot hold under. That line mark at half mildot does all three distances. Level with bottom of line,15m. Dead middle of that line 20m and hair above it 25m.
Needless to say but i will. The wedge scope allows me more mildots to cover the same area. That means more points of refrance for distances.
The none wedge has such a small amount of movement i can be 10m of distance just from gun movement and it hardly noticable.