The “sawed-off” shotgun, romanticized in hundreds of Hollywood Westerns, as the stagecoach guard’s gun, is an integral part of the fast growing sport of Cowboy Action Shooting. Cowboy Action Shooting requires competitors to shoot a six-gun, rifle and shotgun in every match, so the demand for a value priced, short-barreled scattergun led Stoeger to develop the Coach Gun. Available in blue, satin nickel or polished nickel metal finish and stocked with American Walnut, the Coach Gun is as handsome as it is affordable.
Registered: April 2005 Location: Owasso, Cherokee Nation, I.T. Posts: 17
Review Date: Sat January 14, 2006
Would you recommend the product? Yes |
Price you paid?: $295.00
| Rating: 7
Pros:
Cost, performance
Cons:
Have to look some to get good wood, some fit/finish issues
My brother and I both bought these. We like to use them for Wobble Trap just to watch the looks on the "real" trapshooters' faces. Without any work, the empties just fall out of the chambers. The patterns are well-centered, not patchy, and very close in density to the chokes marked.
We did have to go through the stock at the gun emporium to find something other than dull, straight-grained wood.
hellgate
Registered: November 2004 Location: Orygun Posts: 775
Review Date: Sun January 22, 2006
Would you recommend the product? Yes |
Price you paid?: Not Indicated
| Rating: 8
Pros:
Affordable,
Cons:
Occasional gun where POA not POI, needs minor "smithing" to get match ready
I've owned two IGA Stoeger Coach Guns. The first I bought used. I kept having misses with well aimed shots at fallers til I discovered the barrels were not regulated to Point Of Aim (POA). I did not keep that gun long after the discovery. However, I liked it so much I went out and bought another right away picking the smoothest action of the two on the rack. It shot POA. To get it as smooth as my Stevens 311, I put some lapping compound (from a fire lapping kit) on the main barrel/reciever hinges and worked the action 20-30 times and then cleaned it off. That made the gun open smoothly. I also replaced the heavy lever spring with a Ruger Security Six mainspring (I read that the Vaquero mainspring was good as a replacement). The gun is now slick and my main match gun. For black powder shooting you need to be sure you use a fairly deep cupped over powder wad with the IGA because the long tapered throat doesn't seal as well with card & fiber wads compared to the older guns like the 311 that were designed for card & fiber wads and have a short forcing cone between the chamber & barrel. Thin walled cases, BP and fiber wads can cause some blooper loads in the IGA. I think they are great guns.
sixnhand
Registered: April 2004 Posts: 2
Review Date: Sun January 22, 2006
Would you recommend the product? Yes |
Price you paid?: Not Indicated
| Rating: 8
Pros:
Price, availability and it "Looks good".
Cons:
Fit is not perfect. Trigger pull, although not excessive, is somewhat firm.
Owned one for some three years now with the "stainless finish". I shoot 12guage brass, hand loads of 2f and #9 shot. What a "blast".
Major 2 "Still running against the wind"
Registered: November 2005 Location: Cen. Florida Posts: 2563
Review Date: Fri February 10, 2006
Would you recommend the product? No |
Price you paid?: Not Indicated
| Rating: 5
Pros:
Entry level price (then)
Cons:
rough extractor , poor wood
I bought one about 5 years ago, then they were around $220.
Better than the Bakials or so I though at the time.
The wood was some bland So. American hardwood (now they sport American black Walnut)
The extractor was rough and burred and had to be removed and reworked.
The chambers needed work also so hulls would slip out.
Some polishing with valve grind compound solved the problem in the chambers and at the hinge. When polishing was done it wasn't a bad shooter.
I had a problem with customer service (parts) at the old importer too.
I gave it a 5 based on my gun, I also gave a NO recommendation because there is no MAYBE listed. I might suggest an older one if the price is right and it had some smithing.
But the new ones are looking way better.
And with Beretta/Benelli as the new importer I expect they are better.
Plum Loco
Registered: November 2007 Location: Chandler In Posts: 21
Review Date: Mon February 4, 2008
Would you recommend the product? Yes |
Price you paid?: Not Indicated
| Rating: 8
Pros:
Well built reliable working shotgun ata a good price
Cons:
takes a while to break in for easier operation
Stoeger sxs coach guns are number ONE .
I started early on in the cowboy shooting sports , [SASS # 216 ] , and still use my old faithful , the first one . Added another for the home , then added another one for the sons and son-in-laws to use when we all go shoot skeet . everyone gets enjoyment shooting them and busting clay birds , with the coach gun barrel length , surprizes people how well they shoot .
And I added a long barrel uplander model , for the shooting sports , a little further out .
So I own 4 , and they all work very well , and have for YEARS .
A brother in law to one of my sons , who had went shooting with us a couple of times , did so well with the coach guns , a coach gun was his very first gun purchase , he liked them so well .
Sure there are more expensive better guns , but for the price , nothing is better than the Stoeger shotguns .
Abilene Al
Registered: May 2007 Posts: 12
Review Date: Wed November 18, 2009
Would you recommend the product? Yes |
Price you paid?: Not Indicated
| Rating: 8
Pros:
Well made design
Cons:
Tight like most inexpense guns when new
I too have owned several of these guns and have two now, they are what they are, inexpense side by sides that have risen to fame through CAS. They need smithing to make them work properly for CAS, never used them for anything else so I can't speak to hunting or clays with them.
Use the compound on them, polish the chambers, change the springs and firing pins and they are a good little cowboy gun.
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