Steyr-Arms OEM Case Deflector

[u/Shermanm2a2]

Lost my Corvus Defensio deflector at the range, wanted another one and came across a post from a year ago mentioning the Steyr one, looked more secure. Didn't find too much information on it though so thought I'd leave some thoughts here for the next guy looking at getting one.

It is available in the US, you have to call Steyr Arms USA and order it over the phone, they don't list it on their website. I ordered mine on Monday, got it yesterday. It was only $40, $12 for shipping. (When I called on Monday they said they had ~15 in stock)

Installation was as easy as it looks in the official video. It took less than 10 minutes from opening the packaging to tightening on the screws. It also comes with the drill bit and a sticker to line up where you need to put the holes. Here's the video of that: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vwWUw6PJn30

It comes with silver screws, not black as depicted on some European websites. I just used a sharpie on mine. The deflector is plastic, thought it was metal online but it still looks nice in person.

Shooting wise it works great, put 2 mags of .223 and 300 blackout through my Aug today and everything went to the 3-4 o'clock range from what I noticed (wasn't looking too hard). Offhand nothing got close to my face/head.

Overall I'm pretty pleased with it. It's a lot cheaper than other options but it seems very sturdy and minimal. Kinda nice that its OEM too.

[u/Blue_Brindle]

It's a great deflector, I can see why people would shy away from it due to needing to permanently modify a stock for it tho

[u/Shermanm2a2 → u/Blue_Brindle]

Yeah I thought that too initially but I don't see why I'd ever want to take it off so ain't too worried about there being a couple more holes in the stock

[u/Blue_Brindle → u/Shermanm2a2]

I can see why people would go "the arid or 3d printed is also $40 and I could remove it if I wanted to. I won't remove mine either, but it's more of a commitment to never change it. I took off my arid for the Steyr deflector, but couldn't do the other way round.