Called Stoeger and voiced my displeasure. Of course, their only action will be to fix it, so I have to ship it to them. They are going to make it right, but I must say I won't buy another Stoeger. I'm quite disappointed. I did a fair amount of research on them and the general concensus was that they are a good all purpose hunting gun that can take abuse without a lot of cost associated with bells and whistles.
The shottie points good and shoots good. Every clay bird I toss up gets disintegrated, but call me silly, I feel a product should work right out of the box. Needless to say, they've lost a customer and a couple of potential customers.