Charles Daly

[novabrian]

What is the opinion of these shot guns.In particular auto loading ones?

[hattles]

From what I have read, stay away from them...I understand there are a lot of problems with them and they're made cheap in Turkey I believe. Here are some online reviews...you generally get what you pay for.

Charles Daly Field 12 GA Advantage Timber HD Semi Auto Reviews
http://www.reviewcentre.com/reviews11007.html

[BigDogatPlay]

They are okay, not a Remington or a Benelli to be sure, but once broken in they seem to be serviceable. They are / were made in Turkey. I was shooting just this past weekend with a friend who bought a CD semi auto on closeout from Big 5 for a pretty good price as his first sporting shotgun. It's taken about 500 rounds or so for him to break in but now it shoots quite reliably and he did a pretty good job busting clays from the 16 yard line. I'm going to put a Hi-Viz sight on it for him and he'll keep shooting it.

Bear in mind.... CD shotguns are going to be on the cheap price wise because the importer went bankrupt and out of business about six months ago. Retailers and distributors are trying to close out their (now unreturnable) inventory. There is, at present, no warranty or parts service on US soil so if it breaks or needs parts you may have a tough road to hoe. There was a couple of gunsmiths who were authorized service locations, but the CD forum and product pages have all been pulled down. You might be able to find them using the Internet Way Back Machine, but those are cached images of pages and not all content may be present.

All that said... they are serviceable for what they are and my experience is that they need a good deal of breaking in. You just have to be willing to accept the risk of little to no support if something breaks. Some people just aren't willing to do that.