stoeger 2000

[kt]

any one picked one of these up yet? a friend of ours is just getting back into hunting never for geese before and last week had a lot of fun shooting a friends M1. well yesterday morn' was the first time i got to hunt with him and he show up with a brand spankin fresh out of the box stoeger from Dick's said it cost him 3 somethin. its sharp looking in some hi def camo (advantage) and has the same rotary bolt as a benelli. 10 minutes into light i was calling a group through the Pea soup fog and here on the other end of our 40 yd puddle there was a bunch of about 40 that sat all morning while we put out decoys, when i called out they came straight over head. on his 3rd shot he brought down a gander and made a few more real nice shots through the day. that gun handles nice and cycled flawlessly all for under 400? i dont know about dissassembly and all but man it seems like a real piece of work for half the price of the other semi's.
kt

[skeet]

One of the guys that hunts with us has one. In the first 3 weeks I had to fix it 3 times. He doesn't shoot it too much now but since I fixed it the last time it seems to work fine. It is essentially like the benelli..except made in (I think) Turkey. Some parts even interchange I think. He did shoot it good too.

[fabsroman]

Stoeger is owned by Beretta, which also owns Benelli. I think the rotary bolt, which was first used on the Benellis, is now used on the Beretta Extrema and the Stoegers. I don't know much about the newer Stoeger guns, but nine years ago a friend of mine bought one of their o/u's and it was a POS. He ended up getting rid of it within a year for a Browning GTI, which also turned out to be a POS. At the end of the day, if somebody is looking for a $300 gun, I guess the Stoeger will do just as well as the other $300 autos and o/u's out there.