Thoughts on Steyr Hunting 5 air rifle

[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.