Well, it’s official. My Steyr (now on version 3) is back from Allen Zasadny. It is now king of the hill of my airguns in accuracy. Allen was shooting 10 shot groups from her into 1/4 inch at 55 yards, and while looking for the guns limits, stretched her out to 75 yards and 1/2 inch. He does his shooting from a FT sitting position, so there is no chance on God’s green earth I will ever replicate that feat, but from a bench rest, yep, I can do that! She is sooo easy to consistently shoot it isn’t funny.
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Allen has done everything he can do to this gun in version 3. Her 17” LG Match barrel from version 2 has been replaced with a 24” LG Poly barrel. We were both skeptical about the move due to cleaning issues folks have reported, but with this barrel and Allen’s polishing work, he put 1,600 (yea, one thousand six hundred) lubed pellets though the barrel while he was tuning and tweaking with no cleaning. Folks cover up their shots at 50 yards with a dime to show accuracy. This gun is in another league. I have six 10 shot groups side by side I can cover with a .30 pellet. I thought my RAW HM 1000x .30 was accurate because it stacks .30 pellets on top of each other at 50 yards, but it can’t compete with this gun, because the Steyr puts 10 pellets into a hole smaller than one .30 pellet!
Allen coated the outside of the barrel with a stainless finish epoxy paint. The barrel now looks like it was made for the gun (well, because it was!) He also put in a custom anti rotation ballistics index system into the gun (currently set at .024 shim). I don’t even want to know how to adjust that!
The tweaked Steyr regulator from version 2 has now been replaced with a custom Huma regulator that Allen machined down to 1.047 to fit into the gun. He also wound up creating an extension for the Huma to further tweak the fit and tune. She shoots an extreme spread of 7 fps for 10 shot groups and sneaks up to 11 fps extreme spread at 20 shots with a standard deviation of around 2.5 fps.
The AZ moderator from version 2 has been replaced with a new full length 60 degree reverse flip compensator shroud in version 3. Allen also made me a matching full length moderator for this barrel, but it is more accurate with the flip compensator. The factory air tube from version 1 and 2 has now been replaced with an air tube that Allen custom machined to be exactly (of course) the same length as the barrel plus the flip compensator. The man is a perfectionist.
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This gun now literally has no detectable recoil at all. I was pulling the trigger with a Lyman trigger gauge while the gun was sitting unsupported on the bench rest, and it didn’t budge backward in 10 shots and only skidded sideways a bit. I wasn’t touching the gun or re-zeroing between shots; just pulling the trigger with the Lyman trigger gauge
The trigger is set at 3 ounces. There is zero stage 1. Using a digital caliper, the front of trigger was 2.958 from the back of the hand area of the stock. When the gun fired the caliber read 2.924. He has stage two down to .034 inch!! Even the electronic trigger on my Daystate Airwolf can’t do that. The only trigger that comes close is the AZ trigger on my Daystate CR-X which has a bit more travel in stage 2, but breaks with only 2 ounces of pull. The man is a trigger master.
She is topped off with a gen 3 Nikko Diamond Sterling Sportsman 10-50x60 with custom base-matched and machined 30mm rings. The scope has his Allen’s poly carbon Nikko side wheel, elevation turret, and pointers. Allen did all the markings after dialing in the gun, then added a turret stop system so the elevation turret is fixed within one rotation. There now is zero chance of accidentally dialing into an incorrect elevation during a match. This is the elevation wheel turned fully right and left
I finally have a fully tricked out field target rig made by one of the top gunsmiths and field target shooters in the world. I think the only thing Allen hasn't changed on the gun is her original engraving.
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Allen has done everything he can do to this gun in version 3. Her 17” LG Match barrel from version 2 has been replaced with a 24” LG Poly barrel. We were both skeptical about the move due to cleaning issues folks have reported, but with this barrel and Allen’s polishing work, he put 1,600 (yea, one thousand six hundred) lubed pellets though the barrel while he was tuning and tweaking with no cleaning. Folks cover up their shots at 50 yards with a dime to show accuracy. This gun is in another league. I have six 10 shot groups side by side I can cover with a .30 pellet. I thought my RAW HM 1000x .30 was accurate because it stacks .30 pellets on top of each other at 50 yards, but it can’t compete with this gun, because the Steyr puts 10 pellets into a hole smaller than one .30 pellet!
Allen coated the outside of the barrel with a stainless finish epoxy paint. The barrel now looks like it was made for the gun (well, because it was!) He also put in a custom anti rotation ballistics index system into the gun (currently set at .024 shim). I don’t even want to know how to adjust that!
The tweaked Steyr regulator from version 2 has now been replaced with a custom Huma regulator that Allen machined down to 1.047 to fit into the gun. He also wound up creating an extension for the Huma to further tweak the fit and tune. She shoots an extreme spread of 7 fps for 10 shot groups and sneaks up to 11 fps extreme spread at 20 shots with a standard deviation of around 2.5 fps.
The AZ moderator from version 2 has been replaced with a new full length 60 degree reverse flip compensator shroud in version 3. Allen also made me a matching full length moderator for this barrel, but it is more accurate with the flip compensator. The factory air tube from version 1 and 2 has now been replaced with an air tube that Allen custom machined to be exactly (of course) the same length as the barrel plus the flip compensator. The man is a perfectionist.
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This gun now literally has no detectable recoil at all. I was pulling the trigger with a Lyman trigger gauge while the gun was sitting unsupported on the bench rest, and it didn’t budge backward in 10 shots and only skidded sideways a bit. I wasn’t touching the gun or re-zeroing between shots; just pulling the trigger with the Lyman trigger gauge
The trigger is set at 3 ounces. There is zero stage 1. Using a digital caliper, the front of trigger was 2.958 from the back of the hand area of the stock. When the gun fired the caliber read 2.924. He has stage two down to .034 inch!! Even the electronic trigger on my Daystate Airwolf can’t do that. The only trigger that comes close is the AZ trigger on my Daystate CR-X which has a bit more travel in stage 2, but breaks with only 2 ounces of pull. The man is a trigger master.
She is topped off with a gen 3 Nikko Diamond Sterling Sportsman 10-50x60 with custom base-matched and machined 30mm rings. The scope has his Allen’s poly carbon Nikko side wheel, elevation turret, and pointers. Allen did all the markings after dialing in the gun, then added a turret stop system so the elevation turret is fixed within one rotation. There now is zero chance of accidentally dialing into an incorrect elevation during a match. This is the elevation wheel turned fully right and left
I finally have a fully tricked out field target rig made by one of the top gunsmiths and field target shooters in the world. I think the only thing Allen hasn't changed on the gun is her original engraving.
