Ive heard alot of negitive things about the stoeger. I was gun shopping back in january for a shotgun to duck/turkey hunt with. I held the stoeger at dicks and fell for it, it felt great in my hands, semi auto, 400$ couldnt ask for more. Just before I told the guy to get me one I called a buddy who I hunt with, he told me that his friend bought one and had a problem with it. I decided to wait, I came home and did ALOT of searching online and found many people who had problems...One of the most comon is that the fireing pin dosent hit the primeer on some shells hard enough to fire. I didnt buy the stoeger since then ive meet 2 people hunting that have had problems one had the fireing pin problem and the other had the whole trigger mechinisum fall out. On a tip I researched a russian 3.5 inch 12g made by baikal its imported and sold by remington under the Spartan SPR453. Every customer review was great for this gun so I bought it. Ive only had the gun for 5 months but have had no problems shoots everyhting I put in it from light 2/34inch to 31/2 turkey loads and slugs. Try going to a search and type stoeger2000 problems... thats what I did and thats when I decided to look else where. When I seached SPR453 problems I really couldnt find any! I bought mine in camo finsh with a 26inch barrel it came with 4 extened choke tubes inclueding x-full turkey I paid 479 online but I was back at dicks last weekend and the had it on the rack for 450. The do make a 28inch but that only comes in black. So far im a fan of the 26 was leery of it for duck hunting but after useing it... no difference and its more manageable in the woods for turkey.