New Stevens 555 Over and Under Shotguns

@Limonata The Stoeger and Tristar come with 5-yr warranties. The Savage comes with one. Enough said.

@AC10 Btw, how do you like those two models and how many rounds are through them? Thank you.

@AC10 I am not a competitive shooter, so these do fine for me. I only shoot between September and December and at weekly competition or hunting on club owned land. Within that context, they work great.

The Stoeger is made in Brazil. It is on the cheap side however you look at it. Not the best fit and finish but the Condor model has nice wood and an adjustable cheek piece that works well. The chokes are not that good so I swapped them out for a Briley set. The ported extended Briley's help a lot with follow up shots. My Stoeger is also my upland bird and duck hunting gun. No complaints.

The TriStar Viper G2 is Turkish made and has all the attributes of a Turkish made gun, nice wood, nice trigger, but the porting is not as good and gives your shoulder a workout.

The guys with the B-guns (Browning, Beretta, Benelli) seem to turn their nose up at my guns, but I could hardly care. To give you an idea, on a good weekend I will shoot 20 - 25 in skeet and 75 to 80 out of 100 for Field Clays. I do it for fun, I hang out with my brother and our two best friends and try our best but do not go crazy. The reason I even have two is because my brother refused to shoot clays with me, so I bought a second and dragged him out and then he was hooked and he purchased his own Viper. Now I use it when I have guests at the range who want to give skeet a try.

I do not personally believe that a better gun would make me a better shooter. If I really wanted to get to level of some of the guys at my club who shoot 10,000 rounds a month and make up their own loads, perhaps at that point I would go to a B-gun. I use factory loads, usually whatever is on sale, and the only competition is club or charity.

Sooo, for what I do, they meet my needs.

Hope that helps

@Limonata Much appreciated, thank you. Side note: why do you think the Stevens would have the upper hand in customer service?

@AC10 I have several Savage and Stevens rifles including some for the 50s. When I have had a need to call customer service, they have always picked up the phone quickly, the people are friendly, if needed get you to a gun smith and then ship out what you need quickly. I had a Savage 22lr that I felt was not shooting to the accuracy that a Savage should shoot, I talked to a gun smith, he said "that's not right" I sent it in, they checked out, called me back, told me I was correct. Fixed the problem and sent me target. Written on the target was "Much better :-)" Yep, it rocked after the fix.

I have not had a need to call Stoeger, my brother did have to call TriStar and while they "eventually" helped, it was not at the same level as Savage.