- Location
- Western BC
You can buy a Mossbery 930 Home Security for $499.00. Mine eats everything and has not failed once. I think for $100 more, it is $100 well spent.
Cougar reliability, how are they?
- Thread starter natesfitness
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Oh, they're junk(cougar that is) I tried one out on the range. Stove pipe city. Being cheap will cost you one day. Lol. A 1100 chopped down will work better, but the silly engraving on their receivers are so tactically challenging.
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- Location
- Old Man Land, AB
I just thought I'd throw my $.02 in on this thread.
Through procrastination and other flaws, I never had my Cougar out 'till today. Having read this thread, I thought i'd be in for a world of jams and general crap.
After a quick going over (it was stripped and cleaned weeks, nay, months ago
) I packed up and headed to the range. I had to test fire another shotgun so it came along as well.
After warming up with a JC Higgins bolt action
, I broke out the Cougar.
I have no mag extension on mine. She's as stock as the day I bought her. I was half was through a box of Winchester Universal and decided to finish them off. Five rounds loaded in, lets party.
First shot cycled the action, but it locked back. Failure to feed. Not looking good. Tripped the bolt release and cycled the next round in. Gonna be a long day if this is how it works. .....Bang bang bang bang....... No problems! Maybe it doesn't like the first round? Load 'er up and try again. This time, no problems with first shot. Do it again. Bang bang bang bang bang........... This thing works fine.
Something's gotta give out, too much hate for these. Again and again, bang bang bang bang bang. As fast as I could pull the trigger, she fired. Are my sights coming loose?.....nope. Forestock falling off.....nope.
Two boxes later and I switched to Winchester target loads and she ate those as well. Apparently, I got Jwan320's opposite.
Well, damn near 75 rounds through her rather quickly and aside from the first shot, the only problem was the choke tube was loose. Maybe people gotta hate these 'cause they're Chinese, but mine works like a charm.
The one thing I didn't do was try some 3" shells. (didn't bring any) Maybe those will start to rattle the sights off. That'll be for another trip.
(E)
Through procrastination and other flaws, I never had my Cougar out 'till today. Having read this thread, I thought i'd be in for a world of jams and general crap.
After a quick going over (it was stripped and cleaned weeks, nay, months ago
) I packed up and headed to the range. I had to test fire another shotgun so it came along as well. After warming up with a JC Higgins bolt action
, I broke out the Cougar. I have no mag extension on mine. She's as stock as the day I bought her. I was half was through a box of Winchester Universal and decided to finish them off. Five rounds loaded in, lets party.
First shot cycled the action, but it locked back. Failure to feed
. Not looking good. Tripped the bolt release and cycled the next round in. Gonna be a long day if this is how it works. .....Bang bang bang bang....... No problems! Maybe it doesn't like the first round? Load 'er up and try again. This time, no problems with first shot. Do it again. Bang bang bang bang bang........... This thing works fine. Something's gotta give out, too much hate for these. Again and again, bang bang bang bang bang. As fast as I could pull the trigger, she fired. Are my sights coming loose?.....nope. Forestock falling off.....nope.
Two boxes later and I switched to Winchester target loads and she ate those as well. Apparently, I got Jwan320's opposite.
Well, damn near 75 rounds through her rather quickly and aside from the first shot, the only problem was the choke tube was loose. Maybe people gotta hate these 'cause they're Chinese, but mine works like a charm.
The one thing I didn't do was try some 3" shells. (didn't bring any) Maybe those will start to rattle the sights off. That'll be for another trip.
(E)
^ Sound like you got a good one! That's the kind of experience I was expecting when I first took mine out for a test run. Mine must be the odd lemon so my review only shows the worst possible scenario with these guns, but in no way is it representative of all DA cougars. Most other reviews have been pretty positive much like yours.
That's the kind of experience I was expecting when I first took mine out for a test run. Mine must be the odd lemon so my review only shows the worst possible scenario with these guns, but in no way is it representative of all DA cougars. Most other reviews have been pretty positive much like yours.
Ever try to video moving targets by yourself? While shooting? Hence the targets on the backstop. I've shot a few rounds of skeet with the Cougar and get about the same average as I do with my 1100 skeet gun (23/25), frankly this is not a gun purchased for shooting skeet, I got it for shooting slugs as that is something I like to mess with.
I dunno, I don't think I'd want to rely on one for bear repellant in the boonies..on the other hand, my Norinco 97-1 (870 clone) cheerfully digests whatever I feed it, from 3 inch Magnum slugs to #7 birdshot without a single misfire. I guess the Chicoms need to work on the semi auto shotgun platform a bit. (no complaints from my M305S or 213 in 9mm either .)
I gave the Cougar another cleaning and lubricating this morning, then took it to the skeet club this afternoon. I ran 25 Remington 3 dram 1-1/8 oz target shells and 25 1-1/8 reloads through it and it operated flawlessly. Perhaps it just needed a bit more break-in.
