Due to the cast, it was shooting about 1″ left and due to the drop at comb, dead-flat. I took it to the patterning board and put 3 shots on the board at 20 yards with an improved cylinder, extended choke from (not the ones that come with the gun). The trigger has a little play in it, but nothing too disturbing for non-competitive shooting. The barrels are 28″ long for the 12 gauge and 26″ for the 20 gauge. The bead is a typical field gold bead on the muzzle with no mid-bead. Both shells will always come up, regardless of which barrel has or has not fired. The extractor is a simple one piece mechanism that will push both shells out far enough to make pulling them out easy. The block is jeweled which should give it some longevity and is certainly more pleasant to look at than a simple blued block. It doesn’t have a ton of surface contact and isn’t replaceable so great car should be taken to clean and grease up the pivot points at the start of each shooting session. This is similar to how Mossberg does it on their Silver Reserve over-and-unders. The pivot points are extrusions of the receiver that are about 1/8″ in depth. Other than a trivial annoyance with the release, the gun seemed well put together for a gun in this price range. If you tend to hold the gun near the front part of the forearm, this won’t bother you at all. The level style release mechanisms found on most breach guns is far better. Easy and cheap to fix, but certainly not well thought-out. It never fully released, but it was annoying. I had to get a heavier spring put in it as occasionally the kick of the gun and my hand being near the wheel would cause the forearm release to move towards the open position. Unfortunately the wheel is near where my left hand is while shooting. As you see in the picture below, it is a serrated, half-moon, wheel-style release. I am not a fan of the forearm release mechanism on the Steoger. I just took the stock off, cleaned up the mechanicals real good and re-lubed them. Most new breech guns are, so I didn’t worry about it too much. The first time I put it together, I noticed that it was very hard to open. When it arrived, it was as-promised, new-in-box, no marks or defects. So I “pulled the trigger” <<- see what I did there? Specifications That would allow me to shoot sub-gauge events in Sporting Clays and use a lighter gauge to hunt with if I choose.
For the price, $475.00 off of, the 12 and 20 gauge combo model made sense. There were many reviews out there that said the Condor was a solid, well-built gun and others that said that it fell apart in their hands after only 50 shots.
I expected to only shoot maybe 200 shells per month and figured that a budget gun would be fine. When I was deciding whether or not to purchase the Condor, I was actually trying to find an inexpensive over-and-under shotgun to use for upland birds and sporting clays. I could have done the same thing last year when I bought the Stoeger Condor with 12 and 20 gauge barrel set, but I decided to put several thousand rounds through it so we could see how it held up. Most reviews take a gun out of the box, take a few pictures, shoot maybe 25 or 50 rounds out of it and then write it up.
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