wildcatfan.62
Marksman
So I asked a few weeks ago about opinions about this one. Didn’t get any replies before buying. My son took “his“ 20 ga Weatherby SA-08 back to school to shoot clays with his buds. This left me needing a 20 ga in the safe. I wanted to replace the Weatherby but couldn’t find one. I found the Stoeger available online at Sportsman Warehouse so I placed an order and 10 days later picked it up at the Ft. Wayne store.
I stripped the gun and cleaned off all the packing gunk. The gun is inertia driven so no gas system and is supposed to be cleaner running. The magazine tube and spring were covered in a heavy packing grease so needed to be cleaned off and the bolt/receiver were also heavy with an oil. After assembling and shouldering, it seemed like I needed more drop in the stock so I replaced the factory shim with a lower drop and right hand cant. The gun then came up my eye better. The gun is really light at about 5 1/2 lbs. The trigger was better than I expected -the trigger broke easily with the weight of the gun. It’s not gritty.
Went to Deer Creek in Three Oaks Michigan today to break it in at the sporting clays course. Put 100 rounds through with 50 rounds of Winchester xpert steel at 1325 FPS, 25 rounds of Federal Field&Target at 1200 FPS and finally 25 rounds of 3” Fiocchi Golden Pheasant at 1200 FPS. Every round went bang and while I didn’t keep score I was happy with the results. Ejection of spent hulls was crazy at several feet and all in a pile making policing empties easy.
Cleaning when I got back was easy and other than normal gunk the gun was really clean.
The gun came with 3 extended chokes IC, Mod, and a Full. Also included were 4 shims with a left or right cant depending on how you turn them. I paid $570’ish for the gun, more than I‘d like but was able to find it so I pulled the trigger.
I stripped the gun and cleaned off all the packing gunk. The gun is inertia driven so no gas system and is supposed to be cleaner running. The magazine tube and spring were covered in a heavy packing grease so needed to be cleaned off and the bolt/receiver were also heavy with an oil. After assembling and shouldering, it seemed like I needed more drop in the stock so I replaced the factory shim with a lower drop and right hand cant. The gun then came up my eye better. The gun is really light at about 5 1/2 lbs. The trigger was better than I expected -the trigger broke easily with the weight of the gun. It’s not gritty.
Went to Deer Creek in Three Oaks Michigan today to break it in at the sporting clays course. Put 100 rounds through with 50 rounds of Winchester xpert steel at 1325 FPS, 25 rounds of Federal Field&Target at 1200 FPS and finally 25 rounds of 3” Fiocchi Golden Pheasant at 1200 FPS. Every round went bang and while I didn’t keep score I was happy with the results. Ejection of spent hulls was crazy at several feet and all in a pile making policing empties easy.
Cleaning when I got back was easy and other than normal gunk the gun was really clean.
The gun came with 3 extended chokes IC, Mod, and a Full. Also included were 4 shims with a left or right cant depending on how you turn them. I paid $570’ish for the gun, more than I‘d like but was able to find it so I pulled the trigger.
