Here's a link to a video of me shooting the Steyr. The gun seems to have worked out its reliability problems over the last year or so. When it was new I got a number of stovepipes, a couple of "nose stuck on the ramp"-type failures, and some weird thing where the slide was stuck in the rear most position (behind where the slide lock would engage with the notch). I thought I had totally buggered up my gun when that happened, but it came loose by just bumping the slide forward and this has never happened to me again. I haven't had any problems with the gun in the the last 8 months or so, but then I haven't been running any more than 100 rounds per session with this gun in that time frame. You can see in the video that the casings tend to eject at about a 45 degree angle, rather than the straight sideways ideal that I think gun makers should be going for. Back when the gun was newer I had a few come straight back and hit me in the head. I haven't had that happen lately either. I don't know what was going on there. I don't think it was anything I was doing (limp wristing, etc.).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fjZx3v4Utnk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fjZx3v4Utnk
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