My Friend bought a CondorI 12ga.U\O Fine looking shotgun,it was like $350.Most U\O I have looked at have been over $800. Are Stoeger Shotgun any good?

I bought an inexpensive Stoeger SXS 12 ga Made in Brazil and it has been a great little gun. It was a little stiff when i first got it, but it broke in nicely. Nice wood too.

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Fuego

Should be a solid, workmanlike, gun. While not necessarily refined, it should be perfectly functional. I've had two of the Stoeger SxS coach guns, both were fine. I'm not sure if the Condor is made in Brazil, Turkey, or elsewhere.

I bought a Condor when Dick's started to carry them about 5 years ago for $279. It was very stiff and tight but broke in nicely. I have used it for pheasant and quail and it works just fine. It doesn't have all the bells and whistles of a high dollar gun but I don't mind getting a nick or scratch on it when hunting. Mike

I've got a coach gun I bought for SASS shooting. It works great. Very solid, but not fancy in the slightest.

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Richard Gillespie
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Stoeger is, of course, an importer, and most of their currwent line of shotguns come from Brazil and Turkey, I believe. Not necessarily the finest guns made, but solid and serviceable.

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Pisgah

There are several grades of Stoeger O/U's. I bought the least expensive one five or six years back when I was invited to go skeet shooting. I'm anal about not borrowing other people's stuff and I didn't want to blow any serious money until I found out if I was going to shoot sheet regularly.

First, let me say, if you haven't shot any skeet, trap or sporting clays...do it...it's a blast.

Second, the low end Stoeger isn't much on fit and finish, and mine was very stiff as well, but I didn't shoot it enough to loosen it up before I upgraded. Not all of them are that stiff as a buddy of mine bought one new that wasn't. It always went boom and it's built like a tank. My local gunsmith, who has no problem being critical about inexpensive firearms, went through it and said it would be virtually impossible to break based on it's construction.

They're a lot of gun for what they get for them.

Brian~

Many years ago I had a Stoeger "Zephyr Thunderbird". It was a sxs 10 gauge. Biggest, heaviest chunk of iron that I ever owned. Had a great deal of fun with it. After several years I traded it in towards a Richland Arm O/U (also a 10 gauge). I still have the Richland although it now sports 18" tubes, but every now and then I get to missing that old Thunderbird.