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The Stoeger Cougar 8040 (.40 S&W) at Academy also comes with 4 magazines, but is not on sale.

The Stoeger Cougar has a reversible magazine release button.

SIA:

Golden Triangle = Port Arthur, Beaumont, Orange

On a map if you draw a line from Port Arthur to Beaumont to Orange back to Port Arthur it looks like a triangle.

SIA:

A friend of mine purchased a Cougar from Academy in January of 2010 and the model number on the outside of the box was #31700 and it came with two magazines. Mine was purchased in September of 2010 with model # 31713 and has the four magazines. It could be an Academy exclusive, not sure.

When the silver slide & black frame and silver slide & silver frame models first came out, they were exclusively sold at Cabelas.

I really enjoy the Cougar. Very soft recoil, great grip, easy to field strip, very accurate. The Beretta Cougar 8000L (compact model has about 1/2 inch shorter grip) is my favorite Beretta. Stoeger has just announced the Cougar Compact will soon be out.

The Stoeger Cougars are available in 9mm, .40S&W, and .45ACP (with rail).

surprise_i'm_armed wrote:
Note in the ad that the model number given is "31713", but the website does not
reference any of the 3 nine MM pistols with that number.

Another discrepancy is that the ad states "4 Mag" but the website indicates that only
2 mags come with each pistola.

Even the list prices seem very affordable for Stoegers, which are felt by some to be
the equivalent of their corporate brethren - Berettas.

Model number 31713 is correct, it does come with 4 magazines, I purchased this Stoeger Cougar from Academy in Sept. 2010.

Stoeger Industries is a subsidiary of Beretta. The Stoeger Cougars are made in Turkey using the same machinery that Beretta used to make the original Cougars. It is every bit the quality of the Beretta. The Stoeger 8000 in 9mm is identical to the Beretta Cougar L Type P (Cougar L slide, lighter barrel and beveled slide, but with a full-length magazine). The Cougar is a great gun for the money.