I gave 600+ hours of dual instruction in an 180Hp Tiger (not Grumman at that point) I LOVE teaching in the plane AND it was the first airplane other than a Citabria or Cessna 150/152 I ever taught in so I was a bit reluctant to like the airplane...
It was an amazing performer, you had to get it really slow and feed the power in slowly to get a power on stall. I became VERY impressed with the design and execution of the airplane. We fueled them to the tabs and that gave them about 2 hours endurance so we had lots of excess power.
But what do I know?
Ya, what do you know, Noto?
Bill saw ONE go off the end of a 2870' Dirt runway at an airport that
has an elevation of 4,899', in Nevada, on a hot day so they ALL must be bad preforming airplanes.