I've been wanting this gun for quite a while, but was unsure about spending so much. All of my other rifles are of the "inexpensive" variety, but they all work beautifully after tuning and some mods. How could a Diana be that much better? Now I'm going to find out.
Of course, being very married for the past 50 years, I couldn't just go ahead and get one. I had to have "approval".
Yesterday my wife came home from being in Lethbridge all day, and I suggested we go to a nice restaurant where she could have a glass of wine and relax in a pleasant atmosphere.
Ok. That last sentence is a lie. Actually she suggested we go for an early supper. She wanted a glass of wine and we didn't have any in the house so my contribution to the conversation was to say "Ok." I'm such a smooth talker.
So we got into
her new car I drove us 20 minutes down the road to the finest restaurant within a 20 minute drive, the Twin Butte General Store and Mexican Restaurant. (Live entertainment every Saturday night.)
We sat and relaxed in the dim lighting (no-one else was there so they were saving electricity), she had a wine and I had coffee and we had a romantic conversation while we waited for our chicken chimichangas with refried beans and rice to arrive.
The talk was about this and that, our children and grand-children and air guns and our 50th anniversary cruise from we which we just returned, and.... wait.......What was that last thing? No, not the cruise the other thing. Air guns.
How did that get into the conversation? I have no idea.
In that romantic setting in the flickering light of a big screen tv with the sound turned off my wife realized that I really should have a more expensive air rifle to add to my collection.
The hours I spend tuning, tweaking, modifying, adjusting, re-finishing and occasionally actually target shooting will pay big dividends when the zombie apocalypse comes and I really should have a gun which I won't tear apart within an hour of getting it home. Maybe.
She insisted that I get hold of Kelly at D&L and order one at the first opportunity.
So that's what I did.
Today.
Peter
PS: We actually really like the Twin Butte General Store and Mexican Restaurant. They serve great food and they're a local favourite but I know the name sounds a bit bucolic for city folk. The husband and wife owners are really nice too.
In the summer they're a popular spot for bikers all the way from Calgary. On a Sunday I'm sure I've seen $1M worth of bikes in the parking lot.