I was hunting goose with a good friend who just purchased a double barrelled stoeger(condor) from Dick's sporting goods. On his fifth shot the side of the barrell blew out and my buddy had to be rushed to the hospital with lots of stitches, but luckily all of his fingers. We sent the gun to Stoeger and explained the whole situation in great detail. They sent us the gun back and claimed it was all because of user error and they could offer us no help for us or the gun. Sounds like a crock to me, but this happened last year and my friend was out of luck and really pissed off. I really liked the gun, I helped him pick it out, I guess we both were wrong. I won't look at another Stoeger, I'm sure some are nice and good shooters, but customer service likethat doesn't deserve my hard earned dollar.