Why I'm here.

I grew up in a somewhat liberal, extremely pacifist household in the equally liberal Washington state. I had some good friends who introduced me to the errors of my upbringing. Guns (any weapons really) were a forbidden topic in my house, so when I was first introduced to shooting sports I fell in love- kind of a forbidden fruit thing I think. My mother still wonders where she went so wrong.
Because of my upbringing, and my poverty in college, I am not your average gun guy. Most “gun people” buy a gun and it stays in the family, passed on through generations when the owner goes to their heavenly reward. I, on the other hand, go through guns like they were work pants. I get bored, or I look too close, or I shoot them till I don’t like them anymore. Over the past five years I have bought, shot, and sold or traded More than 50 firearms. Along the way I have learned TONS, established opinions, and had a great time. Now some will ask, “Why” ? It all comes down to a deal I made with my incredibly beautiful, and patient wife. When we were first engaged we talked about lots of important things in great detail, and one of those was firearms. She knew I liked guns and enjoyed shooting (though at the time neither of us had any idea how big this would become). She was worried about having hundreds of guns strewn everywhere around the house. We set a four gun limit at any given time. Over the years that deal has been revisited and modified, but the rule made me sell a gun before I could get a new one. It also has led me to play with a ton of platforms and a ton of accessories. This review blog is based on the experience gathered along the way. I have also figured out how to self-fund my gun addiction. In our house “gun money” is a separate entity, though I have on occasion used it to spoil my wife. “Gun money” is money made from a gun sale that is used for buying another gun or ammo. (Gun money also magically accumulates when I let my wife pick our sons names). Guns have become a real investment to mee, they hold their value very well. I have made a lot of additional “gun money” along the way. My addiction started with a $550 initial investment and has grown to around $15,000 in guns, and around $8000 in ammo (though little of that is left) in the course of five years.

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The stoger condor (12 ga)


I have always loved the look of an over under. When I was twelve at a boy scout skeet shooting activity (that I had to beg to attend) I had a beautiful custom engraved over under of some sort put in my hands and though I missed everything I aimed it at with it, it’s beauty stuck with me all these years, so when I saw an over under in a shop for $300 I bought it. I didn’t know anything about this type of gun when I got it, and very quickly learned that it was not a high quality gun, not in the slightest. Sure it could be put together and it fired, but neither were easy. That said, the reason I did send this one packing was what many would call a “safety feature” I call it absurdly annoying. When you break open the action the safety is automatically engaged, so when you load it and close the action you must disengage the safety to fire, then to fire the second barrel you must re-engage the safety then disengage it again and only then will it will fire the second blast. Now forgive me if I am wrong, but isn’t the second barrel there so you have a quick follow up shot? Maybe so you can shoot doubles? This feature renders a second shot in quick succession imposable, and made me resent the person who designed it. I would never recommend this gun to anyone, ever. (as an aside I handled the stoger tactical side by side home defence coach gun and it had the same dumb feature, in that gun it is not just annoying but life threatening.) I only shot a box through the gun before I realized that there was no living with it.

THE GOOD:
It shot
THE BAD


Most everything
FINAL THOUGHTS:
stogers suck, don’t buy one, no, I really mean it, don’t.


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