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NE450No2
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Re: Buying a Big Bore Double Rifle [Re: 500Nitro]
#30726 - 08/05/05 07:51 AM

jjs,
Baised on the targets you showed me you have shot with your Merkel 470 I would not sell it, it is definately a keeper.

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clark7781
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Re: Buying a Big Bore Double Rifle [Re: 500Nitro]
#30799 - 10/05/05 12:38 AM

500Nitro:

I'm new to the DR world (less than a year into it) and when I spent the weekend with the DRSS in Texas two weeks ago, I learned A LOT from the other guys. What a gret bunch!

When I first seriously considered a DR I did look at the .470. But my arsenal at the time was comprised of a .338 win mag, .375 H&H, .416 Rem Mag and .416 Rigby. I felt that if I was going to drop the $$$$ on a new double, I would go all out and get the .500. Why? Nostalgia maybe, but I liked the idea of having the extra umph if needed.

My pop is having Butch build a .577 NE for him. That should be done around the first of the year. The next DR I'm seriously considering (with the wife's approval) is a .450-400...

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Re: Buying a Big Bore Double Rifle [Re: clark7781]
#30807 - 10/05/05 04:42 AM

clark7781

You won't get any criticisms from me about choosing a 500 over a 470 !!!
I own 4 of them - don't ask why, I just like collecting and shooting
500 Nitro's

"Nostalgia maybe, but I liked the idea of having the extra umph if needed."
BOTH !!!

Everyone seems to have a .470, not many have 500's, particulalry in Pre WW11
English made guns.

500 Nitro

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Jeast
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Re: Buying a Big Bore Double Rifle [Re: clark7781]
#30995 - 13/05/05 11:22 AM

when you refer to jj,are you refering to the jj at Champlin Firearms?

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Re: Buying a Big Bore Double Rifle [Re: bret1549]
#31018 - 13/05/05 04:45 PM

Has anyone with 500NE Merkels had any problems with them? I,m thinking of getting a Merkel in the hopefully not to distant future and was either after a 9.3x74 or a 500NE. How do they stand up to lots of rounds with the 500s?
Also ,how do they Heym doubles compare to the Merkels? They are more expensive ,are they any better?

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DUGABOY1
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Re: Buying a Big Bore Double Rifle [Re: cr500]
#31041 - 13/05/05 10:11 PM

In reply to:

Has anyone with 500NE Merkels had any problems with them? I,m thinking of getting a Merkel in the hopefully not to distant future and was either after a 9.3x74 or a 500NE. How do they stand up to lots of rounds with the 500s?
Also ,how do they Heym doubles compare to the Merkels? They are more expensive ,are they any better?

cr500, I have a Merkel chambered for 9.3X74R, and just bought one, from one of the posters here, and on AR, chambered for 470NE, but haven't gotten it yet. I would have rather had the 500NE, but this was a deal I couldn't refuse on the 470NE. The 470NE will re-sale better than the 500NE anyway. Never the less, I'd still rather have the 500NE, as I've probably sold my last double rifle, unless something drastic happens!

My Little 9.3 Merkel, and a host of Merkel shotguns I've owned over the years is what brought me to the ones I have now. I've never had one problem with any Merkel I've owned, shotgun or double rifle. The Merkel double rifles are working rifles, but will still be around for your grand kids, if you take care of them. Regardless what you hear, from those who have something to sell you, the Merkels are value for money spent. You asked about the Hyem, in comparison to the Merkel! IMO, the Hyem is one of the best made double rifles today, in the $10K to $16K range, if you want one of the "off the shelf" rifles. However, I also believe the Heym is over priced for a "one size-fits-all" double rifle, when you can have rifles made to fit for less! I'd buy the merkel, and use the extra $6K on a hunt!

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Re: Buying a Big Bore Double Rifle [Re: Jeast]
#31044 - 13/05/05 10:36 PM

In reply to:

when you refer to jj,are you refering to the jj at Champlin Firearms?

Yep...he has my .500 right now

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Re: Buying a Big Bore Double Rifle [Re: Jeast]
#31045 - 13/05/05 10:39 PM

In reply to:

when you refer to jj,are you refering to the jj at Champlin Firearms?

Or do you mean "jjs"? jjs is a fellow DR owner and member of the DRSS--he hunted with us in Crowell, Texas a few weeks ago. He is not the JJ from Champlins...

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Re: Buying a Big Bore Double Rifle [Re: cr500]
#31046 - 13/05/05 10:42 PM

In reply to:

Has anyone with 500NE Merkels had any problems with them? I,m thinking of getting a Merkel in the hopefully not to distant future and was either after a 9.3x74 or a 500NE. How do they stand up to lots of rounds with the 500s?
Also ,how do they Heym doubles compare to the Merkels? They are more expensive ,are they any better?

cr500:

I have a Merkel .500 and LOVE it. Don't regret the purchase at all. I've only put about 50 - 60 rounds through it and every thing is as tight as the day I bought it.

CptCurl has put a lot more rounds through his Merkel .500, so he would probably be a better person to ask about how the rifle handels with more rounds through it. I think the Merkel is a great gun for the money, but so is a Searcy...probably even better...

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Re: Buying a Big Bore Double Rifle [Re: clark7781]
#31308 - 17/05/05 03:15 PM

I shoot a Searcy .470 and it holds the world title in accuracy officially as Butch borrowed it and won the Nationals with it!

Needless to say that's my choice cuz I can shoot old Leo, Mbogo or Tembo in the eye at 50 yards supposedly!

But I have always loved the 450-400 in either 3" or 3.25"..Just a nice rifle, low on recoil and slim as a French model....I have owned the in Jefferys, Navy Arms, Watson and a couple of others, all shot well if you worked on them...I would hunt and have any animal on earth with a 450-400.

A few say its too light for elephant and perfect for buffalo, but it kills elephant pretty darn dead and if the elephant can tell the difference between 500 grs. and 400 grs. he is one smart elephant..and dead...I don't depend on a bullet that will " turn a charge" knock an elephant out and all that sillyness, I depend on good shooting and killing him outright...I think it works better that way and the other is a suger tit!

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