My experience with Stoeger is nothing less than great. I have an older Stoeger 2000 and I've never had one problem with it. To the tell you the truth I bash the $hit out of the gun. I take it to the range and shoot trap, turkey hunting. I've dragged and pushed it across a couple of fields chasing birds. Dropped it in a creek once. Not one problem other than I've broken the front fiber optic sight twice. Cost me $6 to fix.

Tom