I have a friend who is seriously looking at the Charles Daly shotguns.  Since I have no experience with them, I was hoping to find someone who did.  So what are you opinions/experiences?

All help is appreciated.

i have seen a few jamm alot. i admit, i have little experiance with them, but that little that i do, is of them failing alot.

I have a friend who has one and has a failure to feed about 25% of the time.

We quit selling them at our store after nearly every one developed numerous problems.   They are total crap.

Bill3508

I have an older Charles Daly scattergun, I think I got it about 15 years ago. For the first 10 years I owned it, I never had any problems at all. The old gun has seen HEAVY use, I hunt Dove, Quail, and Ducks  The gun is  worn now and nolonger will eject or feed properly. I retired it a few years back, when I started reloading Shotgun Shells. Got tired of chasing down the hulls. These days I only hunt with the over and under.

I have heard from many people that the new Charles Dalys are dumpsater fodder.

Don't know about the shotguns but the CD .45's are crap!

the "Charles Daly" name has changed hands more times than J-Lo. i have a couple of the older CD over/unders that are made in Japan by "miroku" or something like that.i love them. they are direct copies of the first generation browning citori broadway's. real nice guns. i believe the CD line is now made by Armscor of the phillipines. buyer beware!

I bought a 12 ga autoloader for shooting trap over the summer...

First round I hit 11 clays out of 25, 2nd round I hit 13 out of 25...

I put the Charles Daly back in my truck and shot the 3rd round with my trusty ole Rem 870...

Scored 23 out of 25...
Also had a few perfect rounds with the 870 before switching to the CD, so I knew what "I" was capable of...

I even tried playin with different choke tubes, and still couldn't hit a goddamn thing with it...
I let other shooters try it, and they didn't like it either...


Don't even ask about the Charles Daly 1911 .45 I bought...
Never even made it out of the gunstore before it broke...
Took it in the indoor range to testfire it, and the ambi-safety, detent, and detent spring flew apart and on the floor after the first mag of ammo...
Swapped it back over the counter for a Beretta 92FS and never bought another Charles Daly product again......