Pardus 12 Gauge Pump-Action Shotgun with 18 Inch Barrel

Used rat tail file to gain feed clearance. Now it's a great shot gun

Excellent home defense/hunting weapon for the money. I had a feeding problem that was easily fixed with careful use of a fine rat tail file to the feeding tube! Feeds great now!

The Pardus PA 12 gauge is a solid shotgun for the money. It is tight and stiff out of the box, but after cleaning and lubing it feels much better. I ran about ten shells through it just for testing. It fed, fired and ejected fine. The recoil pad is soft so even buckshot loads aren't bad. The trigger and safety work well. The gun appears to be well made and I am very pleased. It is not as smooth as more expensive pump guns, but you can get two for the cost of one Maverick 88.

It's basically a single shot shotgun - feed system doesn't work at all. I loaded 3 shells, racked, nothing, all the shells still in the mag tube. No matter what I do, they stay in the tube. Broken right out of the box, what a disappointment. I would have given it 1 star but overall the fit and finish seem nice, it just doesn't work.

Gun is a total piece of crap. Could not even cycle the action when I got it. Spent 5 hours with a set of files and sand paper cleaning up the unfinished parts so it will cycle half way decently. On top of that, its cylinder bore no chokes or anything. Save your money and get a Mossberg 88 that doesn't cost that much more money.

Small feeding problem fixed. Great shotgun for home defense!

Complete failure 1st attempt. I now have to disassemble to correct the firing pin. ugh

This was my first interaction with a shotgun. My wife bought it about 4 years ago and never took it out of the box. I took it to the gun range in December for the first time. I couldn't get it to fire consistently. The range worker had to take it apart to see what was wrong. He couldn't find anything wrong. He said perhaps I needed to break it in and run about 50-100 slugs through it. I cleaned and oiled it. I found out you have to really jam the pump hard to get the slugs to load. Once I got the slugs to load fairly consistently, I realized that additional slugs were falling out at the bottom of the receiver. I took it to a gunsmith who told me there was nothing physically wrong with the gun. However, this is what happens when you buy a P.O.S. gun. I was surprised and embarrassed that he actually said that to my face. His advice was to trade it in or call the manufacturer. I figured I may get $30 for it at best, so I decided to keep it and buy a Maverick 88 based on my research. I gave the Pardus a 2 instead of a 1 because when it does actually shoot, it feels good and I was fairly accurate with it. My first shot ever landed dead center.