In the meantime I´ve shot a similar group as confirmation. I am not shooting cloverleafs so easily with any of my bolt action rifles.

I certainly did not expect this from a thin barrel with a shotgun tube soldered on top of it.
So this Merkel might be the most accurate rifle I have?
Maybe, but maybe I should give my other rifles the same attention to barrel cooling after each shot?

Anyway, yes, basically and within reason this combo is all the gun I need.
Regarding "want": yes, there is more in this combo than I ever imagined to want, but there always are some new ideas...

fuhrmann