Turkish shotguns--Poll to end all doubt. Please only participate if you own one

Your Turkish Shotgun - what is your opinion?

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You can have problems with any gun regardless of the name on the side of it, the big question is how often will you have problems and how is the manufacturer support.
Stoeger has a lot of products and the reliability is generally good which is fortunate because the customer support is generally bad. Turkish guns have a lesser reliability rate and some manufacturers seem to have good support and others not so good.
 
I worked with a bunch of turkish pump action shotguns. I hate them all. Absolute pieces of crap, and the design considerations that go into them, makes me wonder, "what the hell were they thinking?".

Also, those stupid "spring assisted" pump action guns, seem to have given me Tennis elbow.
 
Falconflyer said:
You can have problems with any gun regardless of the name on the side of it, the big question is how often will you have problems and how is the manufacturer support.
Stoeger has a lot of products and the reliability is generally good which is fortunate because the customer support is generally bad. Turkish guns have a lesser reliability rate and some manufacturers seem to have good support and others not so good.
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Well…not entirely true. When on the side of the receiver it says “Police Magnum”… you can bet your life it’s going to do what it’s supposed to. 590A1 is another such exception to your claim…
 
I think you’ve misunderstood. I was saying that there are good Turkish guns and others not so good, not that they all are unreliable.
Having said that, I have no experience with the “police magnum” you are talking about but based on other experiences with Turkish guns I’d have trouble betting my life on any of them.
 
So just because its Italian does not mean there could not be issues
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I'll try my luck re. failure rate

Hard learned lesson. At least if an Italian gun fails you know the manufacturer has spare parts and is not a rebrand of a no name that changes at the whims of the manufacturer

Buy Turkish guns if you like, I'm done. Can't believe it took me this long

1000 bucks in limbo and a shotgun that never did anything but break my thumb, from the "good" Turkish brand
 
reddog said:
Well update on Weatherby warranty in Canada. Talked to the warranty shop in Canada that does Weatherby fixes ,they claim that Weatherby has the parts and has yet to send them ,we are on month 8!!!. So phoned Weatherby customer service and had a chat(amazing a real person) who said he would find out what is happening. E mail next day explaining that yes they do have the parts but my warranty claim had been "misplaced?"but the parts would be going north with their next shipment. Sounded genuine on the phone but The clincher I guess was a back up e mail apologizing for there error. Take from it what you will but was definitely worth the call ,see if it is home by New Year.
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Happy Day ,just got a call from Calgary shooting center ,Weatherby parts arrived gun is fixed and in the mail.Seems like they had an unfortunate incident with a burst water main and flood sent them back a few days .A big thank you for the call and looking forward to getting it back in under a year .:)
 
The Turkish-made CZ O/U I have is very very well made. The Turkish-made CZ semi ... not so much. Nor was the Weatherby semi I had and sold. If you looked at it wrong it got marred up and scratched, etc. Not at all built for the bush.
 
I had a Mossberg Silver Reserve 2 Sporting or Super Sport(?) 32 inch.
I bought it used, so excellent value at $700.00.
Not sure if I would have been happy paying new retail price.
It worked O.K., patterned well, regulation was good, nice wood, metal fit & finish was good.
It was heavy, I called it the Massberg, front heavy to.
Had the buttstock off, zero lubrication in there, probably never was any from day 1.
I traded it mostly because of the weight/weight distribution.

Have some experience with Stoeger 2000 & 3000, also purchased used.
The 2000 has recently been digesting the Challenger 1 1/8 target loads after some tinkering.
I kind of like them, especially at used prices.

I think the Turkish guns are a good value when you buy used and you don't mind tinkering.
You don't have warranty issues, cause there is no warranty.

I also think they can be a good value if purchased new.
It would suck to get a lemon though.
Time spent on warranty issues with a new shotgun would be frustrating.
Somebody has to buy new to create the used market inventory and keep the economy functioning.

Experimenting with used Hatsan gas guns now.
They seem to be a good value, especially used guns.
 
Ege arms lv12s 12.5in barrel lever action shotgun, purchase the beginning of June as a birthday present. Had to send it to SFRC for warranty after first range trip. Love the gun functioned great with snap caps, but after 60rnds of mixed ammo ( couple slugs, couple 00 buck, but mostly #6 #4 and target loads) the lever no longer stays tight to the stock and will drop about an inch away moving the blot out of battery ( and just being annoyingly noisy because of the rattle). See what happens when returned from SFRC, but I am disappointed. Figured I get more than one trip before an issue popped up. And to be fair the gun still would fire, just annoying to carry/ sling it when the action won’t stay shut.
 
I,ve got a stoeger 3000 in 12ga,it's been a great gun no issues and it has stacked up a lot of ducks and geese over the years,also bought a cheap charles Daly in 20ga semi for turkeys ,it's not a high end gun but does everything it should and will drop a tom dead past 40 yards.
 
I bought recently a cheap Maverick O/U as a back up steel capable gun. The single trigger didn't end up working the majority of the time and I was greatly displeased. I know some of the better Turkish names are better guns but I don't think Ill go back to a Turkish made gun. Especially when for the price of the high end Turkish made guns double barrels new are not much less than a older nicer Italian or Japanese gun used.
 
There's still an abundance of cheap crude itailian guns being made. The country of origin doesn't mean a damn thing. Buy something built to a level not a price and you'll likely get what you expect. I have more berettas than anything else but I know they have no warrenty support in Canada. I have 4 huglus and they've been great. I have an akus built Dickinson that's extremely well built. Much better fit and finish than the average beretta. I've had mossberg and 870 pumps fail. I've had an issue with a cheap Turkish pump. The Turkish pump was fixed and returned within 7 days. The parts for a Turkish auto I had issues with were sent to me free of charge with a simple email containing a oicture of the broken part.

Any gun can give you trouble but if you're buying a cheap low grade gun made offshore to cut costs and rebranded you get what you get. Not all are junk but the percentages start to tip.

My next gun may very well be Turkish made by Akus or itailian from RFM. At least akus uses their own actions.
 
southernman said:
I've got a Huglu. 28ga SXS, very impressed with it, shoots well , no problems with fit or function,
Have noticed the exposed surfaces of the barrels prone to discolor with rust, as not blues in that area.
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Mine have never rusted but I did slightly discolor a 20ga sxs with bug spray above the forend. It didn't remove the finish just left blotchy marks. Disappointing as it is its my fault
 
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