Readyrod
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The Stoeger coach gun comes with fixed improved cylinder and modified chokes. Can it fire slugs ok? If so, what kind of slugs can it fire? Thanks in advance?
yes, where they print is a different story and I'd start with the cheap slugs .The Stoeger coach gun comes with fixed improved cylinder and modified chokes. Can it fire slugs ok? If so, what kind of slugs can it fire? Thanks in advance?
Zack, I've read thru your thread and I've seen you point at it as the reason people shouldn't buy a Stoeger coach gun twice now, but there's really no factual points in that thread about what's wrong with a cheap Stoeger. The closest I could find to a con of the Stoeger is that it may not be as nicely balanced as a higher end gun.
So what you got against these guns? I'm curious since a friend is considering one.
I heard its hard to make a SXS because of the barrel or something to that effect. And they are cheap guns. Someone pointed out to me they been making remmy 870's over 10mil easy to mass make, a SXS is harder to do that.
You can fire foster style slugs through restrictions as tight as Full with no ill effects to the gun. The space between rifling on the slug allows the soft lead somwhere to go as it swages it's way through the choke. Accuracy may suffer, but the gun won't. There would be countless threads reading something like this; " Rifled Slug Ruined my Gun" on this forum and others if it were any real risk. Countless hunters of the 30's, 40's, and 50's shot slugs through their then commonly choked Full shotguns. Now solid copper slugs, or extra-full Turkey chokes may be a horse of a different color. I am unfamiliar with them. I once owned a Stoeger .410 SxS. It was a great little gun, I wish I still had it.I personally am a little leary of firing slugs through chokes any tighter than IC or maybe LM. M is a .020" constriction.
sometimes I feel like I get info from people who want top notice things and a basic $300 will fall part in thier terms.
Yes, I liked mine.So your saying a stoeger shotgun is good?
I once owned a Stoeger .410 SxS for about seven years. It was the model that preceded the Uplander. I lost it in the flood of '98. I now own three Baikal SxS's in 16,20, & 28 gauges. I think that at their pricepoint, they are as reliable as you're going to find. But they only see a few hundred rounds a year between them all nowadays, not thousands of rounds. I've had no trouble with any of them.Both the Stoeger and Baikal are built like tanks and used for their intended purpose, they're hard to beat.
Regulate: To adjust to a particular specification or requirement: regulate temperature.The alignment of the barrels, termed "regulation" for some reason, is important.
There will be bad ones, but if they were all bad they wouldn't be making them anymore.
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Both the Stoeger and Baikal are built like tanks and used for their intended purpose, they're hard to beat.
I once owned a Stoeger .410 SxS for about seven years. It was the model that preceded the Uplander. I lost it in the flood of '98. I now own three Baikal SxS's in 16,20, & 28 gauges. I think that at their pricepoint, they are as reliable as you're going to find.