Vektor H-5
Originally
designed as a police/riot weapon, the H-5 is one of the few pump-actions in the
world actually adept at firing pointed bullets.
At first, you may think this rifle is some sort of marketing fluke – a
strange cartridge for a pump action rifle, not easy to engineer – but then you
think, it’s a riot, the police have been called in to quell the riot and need
some serious non-lethal firepower, you don’t want to simply spray rubber bullets
all over the place. You want
controlled spot shooting of riot leaders.
That what the H-5 is designed for – controlled use of rubber bullets.
That’s not to
say that the H-5 cannot fire other sorts of 5.56mm ammunition – Vektor is now
selling the H-5 as a civilian weapon.
In the civilian market, it is not necessarily the best weapon; the feed
group of a pump-action rifle shooting pointed bullets is complicated, can be
quirky, and difficult to maintain if you don’t know what you’re doing.
But civilian sales have been enough to keep it on the civilian market –
more civilian sales have been made than to police forces.
The
H-5 is a rotating bolt design that comes standard with a scope to ensure
accurate shot placement. It can be
had with a thumbhole wooden stock and wooden pump lever or a folding stock with
a synthetic pump lever. The
wood-stocked version has a recoil pad on its butt.
The folding stock is a skeletonized side-folder.
22-inch, 18.1 inch, and 13.4-inch barrels lengths are available. The
magazines are “safety” magazines – when you insert them, they have to be bolted
in with a hex nut and allen key or they will simply fall out again.
Weapon |
Ammunition |
Weight |
Magazines* |
Price |
H-5 (Fixed Stock, 22” Barrel) |
5.56mm NATO |
4.5 kg |
5, 10, 12 |
$1075 |
H-5 (Fixed Stock, 18.1” Barrel) |
5.56mm NATO |
4.13 kg |
5, 10, 12 |
$1035 |
H-5 (Fixed Stock, 13.4” Barrel) |
5.56mm NATO |
3.78 kg |
5, 10, 12 |
$987 |
H-5 (Folding Stock, 22” Barrel) |
5.56mm NATO |
4.5 kg |
5, 10, 12 |
$1020 |
H-5 (Folding Stock, 18.1” Barrel) |
5.56mm NATO |
4.13 kg |
5, 10, 12 |
$980 |
H-5 (Folding Stock, 13.4” Barrel) |
5.56mm NATO |
3.78 kg |
5, 10, 12 |
$932 |
Weapon |
ROF |
Damage |
Pen |
Bulk |
SS |
Burst |
Range |
H-5 (Fixed Stock, 22”) |
PA [6] |
3 |
1-Nil |
6 |
2 |
Nil |
64 |
H-5 (Fixed Stock 18.1”) |
PA [6] |
3 |
1-Nil |
6 |
2 |
Nil |
48 |
H-5 (Fixed Stock 13.4”) |
PA [6] |
3 |
1-Nil |
5 |
2 |
Nil |
30 |
H-5 (Folding Stock, 22”) |
PA [6] |
3 |
1-Nil |
5/6 |
2 |
Nil |
64 |
H-5 (Folding Stock 18.1”) |
PA [6] |
3 |
1-Nil |
4/6 |
2 |
Nil |
48 |
H-5 (Folding Stock 13.4”) |
PA [6] |
3 |
1-Nil |
3/5 |
2 |
Nil |
30 |