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 Just picked up a new-to-me 470NE Merkel 140A today from Harry, who accepted it for me! I bought it from one of the posters who posts here, on AR. The rifle was as NEW even-though the previous owner took two elephant, and two Buffalo with it in Zimbabwe. It came with a set of snap-caps, origenal butt plate, as it has a Kick-EEZ pad installed fitted case, Cape Buffalo soft case, custom sling by Murray, four, and one half boxes of Federal Trophy bonded solid factory ammo, origenal factory box, and paper work, and a take down version of the Tuff-Pak. The test target shows four shots all in one ragged hole on the factory target @ 50 Mtrs. with the afore-mentioned Fed trophy bonded solids. The rifle is absolutely new in every way. Excuse me if I am acting like a kid with a new toy, because that is just what I am, except for my advanced age! This will pair very well with my Merkel 140E 9.3X74R double. Can't wait to go to the range!  ....Mac >>>===(x)===> MacD37, ...and DUGABOY1 DRSS Charter member "If I die today, I've had a life well spent, for I've been to see the Elephant, and smelled the smoke of Africa!"~ME 1982 Hands of Old Elmer Keith  | ||
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Sounds really great Mac, I love the Idea of the 470 and 9.3X74 doubles. I hope to do the same with my Krieghoff 470. Jim "Bwana Umfundi" NRA | |||
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Sweet! How about some pics? Mike | |||
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Congratulations -- and the weather is cooling off a bit for you to go to the range. It was almost 100 when I was there last weekend.  | |||
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Mac photos required. Congratulations. | |||
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You sly dog you! Dang not a word one and then BAM a new double! Congrats Mac! Rusty We Band of Brothers! DRSS, NRA & SCI Life Member "I am rejoiced at my fate. Do not be uneasy about me, for I am with my friends." ----- David Crockett in his last letter (to his children), January 9th, 1836 "I will never forsake Texas and her cause. I am her son." ----- Jose Antonio Navarro, from Mexican Prison in 1841 "for I have sworn upon the altar of god eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man." Thomas Jefferson Declaration of Arbroath April 6, 1320-“. . .It is not for glory, nor riches, nor honours that we are fighting, but for freedom - for that alone, which no honest man gives up but with life itself.” | |||
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where do you shoot, Charles? | |||
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Mac: Sorry we did not have a chance to meet at the DRSS Hog Hunt. Please accept my condolences on the passing of your mother and mother-in-law for your family. Hopefully we will get a chance to meet at the next event. I also have a Merkel 470 they do shoot well with the Federal TB Sledghammer...which they were regulated for...If you reload, I have been using Norma Brass, Federal 215 match grade primers, 110 grains of H4831sc (started at 108 grains and worked up)...this load regulates well with 500 grain Woodleigh Softs, Barnes Banded Solids, and North Fork Cup Points and to POA. I will be taking mine to Tanzania loaded with the North Forks to try out on Buff this July...counting the days now! Good luck with your rifle! Best regards, jjs | |||
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Way to go and I agree, great combo of guns! ****************************************************************** R. Lee Ermey: "The deadliest weapon in the world is a Marine and his rifle." ****************************************************************** We're going to be "gifted" with a health care plan we are forced to purchase and fined if we don't, Which purportedly covers at least ten million more people, without adding a single new doctor, but provides for 16,000 new IRS agents, written by a committee whose chairman says he doesn't understand it, passed by a Congress that didn't read it but exempted themselves from it, and signed by a President, with funding administered by a treasury chief who didn't pay his taxes, for which we'll be taxed for four years before any benefits take effect, by a government which has already bankrupted Social Security and Medicare, all to be overseen by a surgeon general who is obese, and financed by a country that's broke!!!!! 'What the hell could possibly go wrong?' | |||
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Keep me posted on it... Ray Atkinson Atkinson Hunting Adventures 10 Ward Lane, Filer, Idaho, 83328 208-731-4120 rayatkinsonhunting@gmail.com | |||
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Jawohl, Herr Mac, gutencombo!  | |||
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Mac..I have a bunch of 9.3 bullets brass dies ect I would love to see somone get it who could use it,I'll make you a great deal.. DD If your parents didn't have any children chances are you won't either. | |||
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DD I'm always interested in componants for any double rifle caliber! My E-mail is: DUGABOY1@aol.com Give me a buzz, and let me know what you have, and what you want for it! ....Mac >>>===(x)===> MacD37, ...and DUGABOY1 DRSS Charter member "If I die today, I've had a life well spent, for I've been to see the Elephant, and smelled the smoke of Africa!"~ME 1982 Hands of Old Elmer Keith | |||
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Thank you for the kind words, JJ, and I wish I could have made the hunt as well, to meet you new guys, Maybe the next time! I'd like to see us put together a group hunt Next year, maybe a spring bear hunt in a two bear area someplace! Thanks for the load datta as well, Luckily I got about 100 rounds of Federal factory Trophy bonded solid ammo with my 470, and it is a good thing because I don't have a set of dies for 470 any longer, as I let them go with the last 470 I had! I think I paid $90 for the ones I had (RCBS) but today they are $258 per set. Needles to say I no longer sell a rifle with a scope, or with dies!  ....Mac >>>===(x)===> MacD37, ...and DUGABOY1 DRSS Charter member "If I die today, I've had a life well spent, for I've been to see the Elephant, and smelled the smoke of Africa!"~ME 1982 Hands of Old Elmer Keith | |||
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Mac, Congratulations on your new 470. I am liiking at doing another bear hunt in Idaho In Sept. One of the guys I work with wants to go. How many of ya'll are interested? I would like to give them a tentative number when I am up there in a couple of weeks for my June hunt. This is a hunt over bait in a 2 bear area. DOUBLE RIFLE SHOOTERS SOCIETY | |||
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Elm Fork out on Luna Road between Northwest Highway and LBJ. Of course it is much cooler this week, but sometimes you just have to put up with the elements. | |||
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MAC congratulations on your new merkel double, i wish u many years hunting with the rifle and a lot of trophy | |||
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Holy thread resurrection, Batman!!!!!!!  Hunting: Exercising dominion over creation at 2800 fps. | |||
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Some one was realley bored reading 5 year OLD post.   Member DSC,DRSS,NRA,TSRA A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way. -Mark Twain There ought to be one day - just one – when there is open season on Congressmen. ~Will Rogers~ | |||
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And I thought Mac bought a new double. | |||
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That's all he does, dredge up old posts...  ------------------------------- Some Pictures from Namibia Some Pictures from Zimbabwe An Elephant Story | |||
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Now would be a good time for a "five years with my Merkel double retrospective". Will J. Parks, III | |||
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+1 It's back on the front page so how about giving us a progress report? | |||
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like Charles said, check his previous posts. this guy is the king of reviving 2-7 year old posts. you just got to wonder what decade he is living in. Vote Trump- Putin’s best friend… To quote a former AND CURRENT Trumpiteer - DUMP TRUMP | |||
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Guys, excuse my computer illiteracy, but how do you tell that the post is years old? My screen shows only the day and month, not the year. | |||
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Go to your preferences at the top and you can set the date format various ways. Edited to ad...The only reason I know is I figured it out yesterday. "There always seems to be a big market for making the clear, complex." | |||
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LOL  Thanks very much | |||
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That's not a bad Idea! But I have two Merkel double rifles, the 470NE that was three yrs old when I bought it, and the 9.3X74R 140E that I bought new in in June of 2001! So I'll start a new thread for the report on both! It will be a few days till I can write the report, and post it! ....Mac >>>===(x)===> MacD37, ...and DUGABOY1 DRSS Charter member "If I die today, I've had a life well spent, for I've been to see the Elephant, and smelled the smoke of Africa!"~ME 1982 Hands of Old Elmer Keith | |||
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That would be a "double Merkel double retrospective". Will J. Parks, III | |||
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Great minds DO think alike!! I am now the current custodian of an early Searcy Double in .470 NE, and have a Chapuis coming in 9,3x74R. I am looking forward to hearing about your experiences with both. Rich DRSS x2 Does that make me a double-double rifles shooters society member? | |||
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Perhaps something good can come from this old dreged up post.  Member DSC,DRSS,NRA,TSRA A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way. -Mark Twain There ought to be one day - just one – when there is open season on Congressmen. ~Will Rogers~ | |||
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well how come u gys see that iam reading all post ,that means u are reading too haha,maybe because all post have more knowledge, not like new guys suffers from magnumitis calibers | |||
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Has anyone noticed that you could take all of the "congrats" posts on this thread and replace "double" or "Merkel" with "grandchild" or "son/daughter"? | |||
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505, speak for yourself Gramps!! Rich A young sixty... | |||
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Hey "Lick", Really, why did you congratulate MAC on a NEW double when the last entry before yours a few days ago was just about five years old? Clearly the "new" double of MAC's ain't new no mo' !   Jack OH GOD! {Seriously, we need the help.} | |||
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