We don’t see many Stoeger handguns in our pocket dump series but the Cougar 8000 is an underrated, affordable, dependable personal defense gun (see our review of the .45 here). See what Koray is carrying at Everyday Carry . . .
The Stoeger Cougar is a continuation of the now-defunct Beretta 8000 (a.k.a. Cougar). Ironically, Beretta discontinued the 8000 during the same year that Desperate Housewives hit the airwaves (2004), a show that gave new prominence to the two-legged definition of the word “Cougar.” Just as the the new meaning reinvigorated an old stereotype, the Stoeger […]
