on_one_wheel wrote:The Aakkar Churchill is a very nice shotgun for the price. It has alot going for it.
Chrome lined barrels
3" chambers
5 extended chokes
Turkish walnut
10mm ventilated rib with red front sight
Steel Receiver
Ultrasoft recoil pad
Single selective, gold plated inertia trigger
And ejectors in most modles.
Thats alot of shotgun fir about $1150 and they look great. And for an extra 250 you can have both 20" and 30" barrels making it a handy hunting gun as well as a trap shooter.
For almost half the price you can have a Stoager.
It won't have the nice finish, ejectors, chrome lined barrels or a selectable single trigger but they do last the test of time.
The Stoeger Condor doesn't have selectable trigger or chromed bores as far as I know, but it does have 3" chambers, ejectors, removable chokes, very nice finishing to the steel and timber, vented rib with red sight, and a decent recoil pad. As I said, I'm stunned with the bang-for-buck. The Condor Supreme does have the selective trigger but whether you could simply swap in the trigger pack I don't know.
For what it's worth though, I don't compete and I don't consider shotguns to be the most humane way to shoot animals or birds. For me the shotgun is really just a toy for occasional clays or some field competition so I was never going to spend more than a grand on one.
I hate lever action but for the price I'd pretty much decided I was going to have to buy the Adler until I spotted the Stoeger.
According to their website the Condor Field has 26" or 28" barrels. Mine are 30" though so I'm wondering if it's a bit of hybrid with the Longfowler's 30" barrels?
Does anybody know if it's likely to be modular and would accept the barrels from the 12/20/28/410 versions in 26", 28" and 30", or even the 20" barrels from the Outback version, or the single barrel from the Grand? That would be awesome if it were the case