Thoughts on Steyr Hunting 5 air rifle

[flyingfish]

I have used Neil's at the Bash
Bloody good rifle

[Craig-P]

I'll buck the trend - my Steyr H5A bullpup wouldn't group any better than an out of the box HW95 at forty yards.
In fact, my open sighted HW77, admittedly with a 6" dayglo disk as a marker, ( just so I could see an aim point ), put in a group at least a third of the size at sixty yards...
I really wanted to like the rifle but it plain didn't perform. I scrubbed and reset the barrel to optimum, checked performance and velocity with a ton of different pellets, seated pellets into the mag, tried different torques on the stock bolts, different optics, etc etc etc - but it wouldn't put in a group that bettered my thirty odd year year old '77. And at north of two grand for the Steyr and less than a couple of hundred for the '77, that was an issue.
I have to say, it performed flawlessly, like a Swiss watch and the consistency was spot on - but the accuracy just wasn't there.
I sold it at a massive loss to someone who wanted to shoot rats and rabbits with night vision at up to thirty yards maximum - so it would have been pretty well suited to that.
Having said all of the above, I tried Neil180's H5 Scout at the bash and put in a group at thirty yards that was pretty decent - he even took photographs of it.
Maybe I had a bad one - but I've never seen evidence of a decent group at extended ranges with a H5A.
I guess it all comes down to it's intended purpose and what you're expecting from it.
Craig

[clipper]

Seen two in the flesh, both with owners cursing them for misfeeds, hours spent finding the right pellet, having to hold them at just the right angle for loading magazine so the pellets didn't drop out.......

Accuracy issues? In a £2.5k rifle? And all the problems listed above? Smarter money would be on a HW100, bottle, decent scope, and a lifetimes worth of pellets for the same outlay!

[Shocker]

Bought one new in .22 when they first came out
Horrible thing but it was fun to shoot it
Couldn’t shoot groups of less than 6 inch at 25 m
Went back to steyer twice and the shop played and reset it many times
Eventually got a refund

[robs5230]

I owned a H5 scout manual
Superb rifle.
Only shot JSB 10.34 accurately, but extremely accurately.

I had 5 mags.
2 of those had issues where they'd drop the first shot low, so they got marked up and put aside.

I think the best advice is find a good mag, set the barrel clearance to that mag, and just use the one mag.

Mine would shoot true single hole groups at 35 yards. I've not owned many other rifles that would do the same.

Selling that H5 was one of my biggest regrets, but I had no other option at the time.