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Marrakai
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Re: searcy's doubles [Re: Oldsarge]
#27883 - 17/03/05 02:41 PM

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mickey
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Re: searcy's doubles [Re: Marrakai]
#27889 - 17/03/05 03:39 PM

Doesn't, or didn't Merkel make their rifles with the hole drilled to add the mercury tubes?

I agree that it is a surprise that modern rifles can not match the feel of the older rifles. Shotguns, IMO, feel much better now than the old ones.

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Re: searcy's doubles [Re: mickey]
#27904 - 17/03/05 10:52 PM

The Merkel has it's butt stock attached by a through bolt, so there is a hole. They mount a steel bar into the hole for some weight and balance. It looks like they also have a smaller lead bar mounted in the butt.

There is no mercury.

At least that's what you would find in my Merkel 140-2 in .500NE.

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DUGABOY1
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Re: searcy's doubles [Re: new_guy]
#27919 - 18/03/05 08:15 AM

In reply to:

Careful Mac, you're gonna give yourself an anurism.

New_Guy, is there something about the way I write, that makes people think I'm angry? I seem to get this a lot, and nothing could be farther from the truth, as to my attitude about anything other than personal attacks! I'm not an exciteable person, and almost never get angry. I guess it is my dirrect way of writeing that give the impression that I'm tiffed!

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510Wells
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Re: searcy's doubles [Re: CptCurl]
#27929 - 18/03/05 09:42 AM

I was told by Butch (Searcy) that Mercuy recoil reducers in double rifles is not a good idea because, like an air gun, it has both a rearward recoil (due to the shell firing) and a forward recoil due to the gun "running into" the Mercurys "recoil".

This I'm told can (possibly) cause the gun to double. I don't know about you but I'm a little leary of that.

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new_guy
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Re: searcy's doubles [Re: DUGABOY1]
#27937 - 18/03/05 11:29 AM

LOL - it's all the exclamation points you use!

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k80
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Re: searcy's doubles [Re: 510Wells]
#27938 - 18/03/05 11:50 AM

Mecury reducers have been used
for many years in shotguns,and rifles
without problems.
A reducer would help the balance
of a Merkel big bore IMHO.
I have a reducer in my 375H&H
pre 64 model 70 that equalized
the balance to a between the hands
position.With no problems.
My Krieghoff 375 has one also.With no
problems.
I will add a new stock for my 20 ga.
barrel,then I can balance it as
a shotgun. The reducer with the 20
would be butt heavy. Not what I want in
a shotgun.

Ken
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510Wells
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Re: searcy's doubles [Re: k80]
#27953 - 18/03/05 02:57 PM

k80

Yup, I've got a smaller one in the butt of my Beretta 12 ga. that I shoot some trap with and I figure I could handle a double discharge (though I never had a problem) from it.

But I'm not sure I'd be able walk away un-harmed if my Searcy 500NE doubled on me. I'm 62 and have 3 vertebrae fused in my neck so I tend to be a little conservative these days.

I also have a pretty hefty one (14 oz.)in the butt of my Ruger RSM 458 Lott and it makes the Lott a real pussycat. Not much more recoil than my 357H&H M70. And the gun balances a whole lot (no pun intended) better.

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