510,
Actually Butchs guns have Turkish walnut and he purchases that wood from Bill Dowtin I believe....I suppose he does use some English also...Mine is definatly Turkish.

Mac,
The Merkels that I have seen shot off face have all been in 375 H&H and 416 Rigby as one would expect they would..Apparantly the stupid bean counters thought the actions were capable of 60,000 PSI I guess...but I wonder if they are truly that ignorant and apparantly they are then why would I want anything they produce. The other thing is I have seen the inside of the actions and that surely was not impressive....Just my call.

Nitro X,
C',mon quite riding the fence! pick a side even if its the wrong side...