Yes they did. It's essentially a Beretta Cougar with the Stoeger name stamped on it instead. Otherwise it's the same gun, but about half the price.I had a Beretta cougar 8045, (45acp). The same gun before Beretta sold the design to Stoeger. Never has a single problem! Feed everything I fed it. and with the rotating barrel it seemed to have a little more manageable recoil that the standard Browning mechanism. The pistol was very accurate just could not get used to the double action only trigger I had on the model I owned, If I had gotten the SA/DA trigger group I would have never sold the pistol! Also I dont know if it is true or not, so do you own research, but I heard Beretta even sold stoeger the machining tools to produce the cougar on. I have heard nothing negative of the Stoeger pistol. I would personally be happy to add one to my collection. I believe Stoeger does not offer the cougar in DA only since they got it from Beretta.
I say go for it!![]()
Actually, Beretta is part of Stoeger, or vice versa, I forget. You are right about the same tooling and machinery. They simply moved it all to Turkey for reduced labor costs (sound familiar). Basically the Stoeger is the same gun as the Beretta for half the cost.I had a Beretta cougar 8045, (45acp). The same gun before Beretta sold the design to Stoeger. Never has a single problem! Feed everything I fed it. and with the rotating barrel it seemed to have a little more manageable recoil that the standard Browning mechanism. The pistol was very accurate just could not get used to the double action only trigger I had on the model I owned, If I had gotten the SA/DA trigger group I would have never sold the pistol! Also I dont know if it is true or not, so do you own research, but I heard Beretta even sold stoeger the machining tools to produce the cougar on. I have heard nothing negative of the Stoeger pistol. I would personally be happy to add one to my collection. I believe Stoeger does not offer the cougar in DA only since they got it from Beretta.
I say go for it!![]()