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Thank you for the reply and information, it was greatly appreciated. I have been thinking about buying either a Merkel, Searcy, Heym or Krieghoff double rifle for some time. As they are very inexpensive I was not sure about the quality of these rifles. The Merkel has the most eye appeal in my opinion as they seem to have the lines of the more expensive doubles. IMO, their high end shotguns are very nice pieces.

I have located a used Merkel in 470 that looks close to new, outside of a few handling marks and the gentleman and I are close on price. For this reason I was interested in your findings with the Merkel you purchased.

Again thank you and keep everyone up to date on your findings.