#STOEGER CONDOR REVIEW FULL#

The pad on the butt of the stock is pretty hard it would give a person a numb arm at the end of a half day practice. It isn’t as pretty or refined as a Browning, Beretta etc but in terms of a plain looking utility O/U this should do the job.Īs a target competition shotgun the Stoeger obviously falls short. I wouldn’t hesitate to suggest it to anyone looking to get into an O/U for non-competitive shooting. In fact if you’re only looking for something for hunting and the occasionally target session I think the Stoeger would be an excellent value. At the end of the shooting session the action was just as stiff as when I started the trigger felt the same and the shells came out just as easily.Īs far as a $700 O/U goes I’d say from what I’ve seen so far that the Stoeger performs more than adequately. All told I used about 230 of the 250 shells I brought out and none of the ammunition presented any problems.Īs a target competition shotgun the Stoeger obviously falls short. They also seemed to pattern a little better than the Remington’s.) The Remington Nitro’s were, predictably, very loud and the Federals patterned pretty well from the gun. (Read: I had my best accuracy with the reduced load. The Stoeger worked flawlessly every time through all three types of ammunition and of all the loads my own home brew seemed to suit the shotgun the best. Once it becomes automatic to check that safety every time things go much smoother. Watching your target sail on by as you click-click gets old pretty quick.

I’m sure it’s a very safe approach to take but until you’re used to turning it off every time it’s a little irritating. One particularly annoying feature of the Condor shotguns is that the safety engages every time you open the action. It’s not a big deal for me since I want to save the hulls anyway it gave me a chance to put my hand over the ejectors so I could pull the hulls out instead of having them ejected 5ft away.

With this particular shotgun there was much more effort required to open the action far enough to eject the spent hulls. In your typical break action there's very little energy beyond the weight of the barrel opening the action required to extract the cartridges. There were three types of ammo I brought out to test: Remington 1-1/8oz Nitro target loads, Federal 1-1/8oz target loads, and some 1oz home brews.Īnyone who has read about a Stoeger has heard that the action is pretty stiff when you first by them and that holds true for mine. I went to do some sporting clays on Sunday and brought my brand new Stoeger and about 250 shells. I'll be using factory target loads from Remington, Winchester, and Federal, as well as my own reloaded shells.Īs promised here is my review of the Stoeger Condor Deluxe SST:

#STOEGER CONDOR REVIEW FULL#

I'll post a full review here after I've taken it out and put it through a couple hundred clays. I have taken it to the range recently and patterned the chokes and they seem to be pretty consistently on bead and what you'd expect from them. So this weekend will be the first kick at the can with the Stoeger on the clays. Long and short of it is, crashing your motorbike isn't conducive to a summer of sporting clays. I know I know, lots of people wouldn't consider anything 'less' than a Browning but I have to be realistic: I'm never going to the Olympics and I'm never going to convince the Fun Buster that it's totally reasonable to spend $3500 on a shotgun. I'd used a Citori a couple times and really liked that gun but the demo I was using was about $3500 retail. I wanted to try an option that wouldn't set me back $1500+ before I even knew if I liked an over under shotgun. A couple months ago before my accident I bought a Stoeger Condor Deluxe O/U.

Stoeger condor review