Hunting Washington Forum
Equipment & Gear => Guns and Ammo => Topic started by: ridgefire on December 09, 2011, 11:16:26 PM
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are stoeger semi auto guns any good or am i better off putting my money towards a different auto and if so which one. would mainly be using it for waterfowl so looking for a synthetic in the 5-700 range. any suggestions
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I bought one last spring and have not one complaint about it. :tup:
And have yet had a jam or missfire.
I work the live duck station several times a year for the RRHC and put a couple boxes of shells through it a day. Others have shot it in the blind and were impressed with it also.
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I have a stoeger and have not had any misfires. I like the gun. The only thing I've had happen was a stovepipe shell on ejection with blackcloud.
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I had the Stoeger M2000 semi auto and it performed perfectly. Never had any issues with it ever and let a friend use it one day on a pheasant hunt, he made me an offer and took it home with him. I would not hesitate to purchase another.
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Seems like with all the Benelli owned brands, they are sharing technology liberally. The internals of each gun looks very similar. I have a Franchi 712 that has been a flawless gun for the last 8 years with thousands of rounds through it. Benelli had upped the price point for Franchi and now Stoger fills that position it seems. There will be a little less refinement than the $1000 guns, but by what other people are saying about their Stogers, it should be a good gun.
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I picked up a used Stoeger 2000 4 or 5 years ago, wet land style camo for 225.00 and it has ran like a charm and I run it hard during dove season. I have never had it hang up, function has been flawless. Sold it to a friend and it is still going strong in the duck boat. It has been shooting steel through the same full choke for 6 years now and the choke is still good to go.
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was looking at the m2000, anybody know of a decent place on the westside to buy one
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Dont matter where you get it, they all are about the same price. I got mine at Wholesale Sports for $450.
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I think the Stoeger is a perfectly acceptable utility shotgun. It is made in Turkey, which accounts for the low price. You probably know the story. Stoeger saw the Benelli inertia mechanism and copied it to the letter. Benelli sued Turkey restricting them to sell in Turkey only, which would have meant the end of the Stoeger semi-auto with ineritia drive. Benelli manufacturing engineers and lawyers visited the Stoeger plant in Turkey and were so impressed they bought Stoeger. Now Stoeger serves as the Benelli entry level shotgun. It doesn't have the fit & finish of the Benelli, the shock absorbing mechanism, or the cryo-barrel. But it is a good, reliable, servicable semi-auto shotgun and it is the only other shotgun to utilize the inertial driven technology available at a low price. The inertial mechanism is very simple, only a few moving parts. It's also very clean, since all the gas goes down the barrel after using the inertial of the fired shell to eject the shell and load another one. It's also the easiest semi-auto shotgun to clean. There is no separate gas chamber or O-ring as with traditional gas-operated semi-auto shotguns. It's got a bit of a kick but if you don't mind that it's a good gun.
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Interesting background Jekemi.
