I've had a couple of these in both the distant and near past (now sold on) and recently had a hankering for yet another one. As I currently have a couple of standard model H5's I thought that it might be possible to upgrade one of these at minimal cost. Unfortunately I received a negative response from both Steyr UK and Steyr Austria regarding the matter and am not able to even buy the action block as a stand alone component and switch my existing parts to it. Just in case it's of interest to anyone in a similar position, Steyr will supply the H5 Semi without a stock to both the UK and European markets, and in Germany this reduces the price by 300Eu from one particular supplier that I've been in touch with.

If anyone wants details of the German supplier (who is willing to ship to the UK (I've used them several times in the last few years without any problems whatsoever)), please contact me by PM and I'll oblige (I haven't included it in this posting in case it violates BBS protocol).

Also, if others have alternative ideas regarding conversions of the standard H5 to semi, I'd be interested to hear them.

Thanks, Vic Thompson.