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500Bo
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Weight vs. Recoil
24/04/10 04:39 AM

I recently read Boddington's "Safari Rifles II" and he mentioned something that made me pause and then do a little research. He mentioned the Merkel double being a little on the light side (10.14 lbs.) and that it had a little more "drop" than he cared for and the net result was that it had more recoil than it had to.

I checked the weight of other makers and found the following;

Heym 10.5 lbs.
Krieghoff 10.5 lbs.
Blaser 11.68 lbs.
Verney-Carron - gave a range up to 16 lbs. for the .600

So granted, Merkel is a little lighter than the others, but is Boddington saying that light weight is the reason or the "drop" or possibly a combination of the two?

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Weight vs. Recoil	500Bo	24/04/10 04:39 AM
Re: Weight vs. Recoil	xausa	24/04/10 05:53 AM
Re: Weight vs. Recoil	CptCurl	24/04/10 08:51 PM
Re: Weight vs. Recoil	xausa	24/04/10 10:37 PM
Re: Weight vs. Recoil	404bearslayer	25/04/10 12:49 AM
Re: Weight vs. Recoil	DarylS	25/04/10 04:44 AM
Re: Weight vs. Recoil	herrdoktor	25/04/10 05:20 AM
Re: Weight vs. Recoil	404bearslayer	25/04/10 01:31 PM
Re: Weight vs. Recoil	CptCurl	25/04/10 01:01 AM
Re: Weight vs. Recoil	500Bo	25/04/10 03:04 AM
Re: Weight vs. Recoil	CptCurl	25/04/10 04:31 AM
Re: Weight vs. Recoil	Dutch44	24/04/10 05:36 AM

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