Your thoughts on a Diana 280 in .22

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Hey all, I'm looking to buy a new Diana and was considering the Diana 280 in .22 (To6 trigger shooting 670fps). Does any one have first experience with this gun? I'm tied between this one and the Diana Pathern 31 in synthetic (which has the t05 trigger shooting 740 fps).

The guns will be used for plinking and small game.
 
Just my 2 cents. The 280 numbers would be with very light pellet. I have a 34 in .22, broken in, and it does 640 with a 16 grain pellet.
The 280 in .177 should be sweet.
In .22 I'd prefer a D34. It may start out 740, like mine did, it'll settle down.
Whatever you buy, the gun should be dismantled with a spring compressor and piston seal checked. I had one arrive good. The other arrived with a damaged seal and only grouped well after replacement.

The to5s CAN be good. The barrels on those were a Diana experiment and are hit or miss. My D34 .22 is a T05 and is wickedly accurate, with just one particular pellet. The trigger, I adjust myself to it and don't mind it or my t06. But the barrels on the t06 rifles are German and tend to be less pellet-picky.
 
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I have a 280 .177 its an excellent rifle very acurate and nice to handle and quite capable at 50yds. If your comfortable with a 12ftlb rifle then a .22 should be good. My rifle does well with jsb, rws and h&n pellets. In comparison with the 34 the 280 is lighter and shorter, the size of an hw95 with the power of an hw50.
 
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280 in .177....You'd be surprised what you can do with 12 ft/lb. My D34 .177 is doing that right now, took down a squirrel at 30 yards last Saturday and a clean-kill g'hog head shot 2 springs ago. And in .177 you have more pellet variety to choose from. And at the top speed for target, says the conventional wisdom.
 
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