Stoeger condor competition question ?

Ghost Tyler

Ghost Tyler

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I'm looking to buy my first over under shotgun . I've been using a beretta a300 xtrema for sporting clays and an 870 wing master for trap but I wanted to buy something more fitting to the sport of shooting sporting clays .

So I've been looking at the stoeger condor competition 12 g . I was wondering what you guys think . Keeping in mind it's my first over under shotgun .
Half decent gun for the money or should I just wait and save for beretta 686 silver pigeon .
I know the two don't compare to each other but just trying to get some input on whether or not to buy a meh ok gun or a exception gun . Keep in mind also I do a lot of shooting so I want something reliable and something that's going to last
 
Save for the Beretta or a Browning. The Stoeger swings like a club ! I have shot the Stoeger and it made me think I'd rather live with sustained machine gun fire than it !
Buy a quality gun and you won't regret it.
 
Wait and save. You are shooting two pretty decent guns now. Clay shooters should spend more time learning the games and how to shoot them than worry about the guns they use. Try various guns along the way if you can. The Condor isn't in the same league as the Beretta.
 
I recently got into sporting clays my self. I started off thinking of getting a cheap stoeger or a CZ redhead. After some research I ended up getting a beretta 686 silver pigeon sporting. Very glad I did, great gun definitely worth the investment. Definitely save up and get something quality.
 
A few years ago I bought a Condor Competition for my brother to shoot trap with. The forend kept falling off during the first round of 25. It eventually settled in and stayed on.

It really is crude and awkward in comparison to the far superior B guns. The much lower price is not really a worthy consideration for such a poorly designed and built gun. Save up for a lightly used B gun and you'll have no regrets.
 
The upside is the 5 year warranty. The downside is all the time you'll spend waiting for it to get repaired. Thankfully I could afford to upgrade. I just couldn't justify spending enough to buy a Beretta at first. Owning the Stoeger made the upgrade an easy choice. I have a few thousand rounds through the 686 in year I've owned it and no complaints.
 
Their are some decent sub-$1000 O/U's on the market, the Brazilian Stoegers are not in that group, okay for a field gun, not built to live up to target duty. You have 2 decent quality shotguns now, both are suited to what you are doing with them, my advice would be to stay the course unless you are having fit issues with them. Don't get caught in the "I have to have an O/U to shoot competitive Skeet & Trap", you don't. You can run 25, 50, 75, 100 straight in Skeet with a pump, you of my members does it regularly with a Model 12. Your Beretta, again assuming it fits you, is a decent choice for the Skeet field, the Wingmaster makes a good trap gun.
 
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