Want to buy a .500 Nitro Heym Side by Side.
Is this a good choice ?!

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Seloushunter

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Originally posted by mboga biga bwana:
Want to buy a .500 Nitro Heym Side by Side.
Is this a good choice ?!

r.
Seloushunter

The Heym doubles are not cheap, but great doubles.

Very good finish, accurate and well balanced and with real ejectors...

Caliber would not be my choice i prefer the 500/416 N.E. or the . 45´0 N.E. 3 1/4.

The heym double is nice,If i were you i would look at the SEARCY PH model in 500ne excellant rifle very accurate and built right here in the states.I own a SEARCY 500NE DOUBLE best chose i ever made also if you have a problem with it BUTCH SEARCY will fix it BUTCH is a very nice guy to talk to...

As a Heym owner I feel it is the best double in that price range. Excellent ballance, accurate, nice wood, well finished. If you buy new, the factory will make the gun to your measurements. the Searcys I have handled didn't feel that well ballanced, at least to my tastes. Then again, the Searcy can be had for a few thousand less than the Heym. As always, it's a matter of personal likes and taste.

Geronimo

Searcy doubles are fitted to your body. When you order one searcy needs your measurements.

In the new rifles available under $20K in that caliber, get the Merkel or the Heym. The Heym is better finished than the Merkel, you just have to decide if the price difference is commensurate with the better finish.
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"Serious rifles have two barrels, everything else just burns gunpowder."

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Originally posted by 400 Nitro Express:
In the new rifles available under $20K in that caliber, get the Merkel or the Heym. The Heym is better finished than the Merkel, you just have to decide if the price difference is commensurate with the better finish.
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"Serious rifles have two barrels, everything else just burns gunpowder."

Ditto 400 Nitro Express. I got a good deal on a Merkel .470 NE and am very happy with it. If I were going to get a .500 NE, I would make the next one a Heym. It is a very good choice.

I wonder if Heym regulates to parallel groups to infinity or if they just make the barrels cross at 50 or 100 meters?

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Originally posted by RIP:
I wonder if Heym regulates to parallel groups to infinity or if they just make the barrels cross at 50 or 100 meters?

Infinity and Beyond.

Actually they do cross at at 4035.958 meters which is the maximum range for a 500NE. It is a mark of the Gunmmakers Art to have the bullets bump into each other at the precise nanosecond that they contact the Earth.

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Originally posted by Mickey1:

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Originally posted by RIP:
I wonder if Heym regulates to parallel groups to infinity or if they just make the barrels cross at 50 or 100 meters?

Infinity and Beyond.

Actually they do cross at at 4035.958 meters which is the maximum range for a 500NE. It is a mark of the Gunmmakers Art to have the bullets bump into each other at the precise nanosecond that they contact the Earth.

I had a clint with a Heym 470 double. Forget which one. It was well made and accurate but when he snapped it shut the lever that you use to open the gun did not snap back into place. He had to push it back into place after every reload. He said that it was a characteristic of the Heym. If it is a characteristic of the rifle it will make it slow to reload when under stress.

VBR,


Ted Gorsline

You need to determine the importance of ejectors to you. The Heym and the Searcy have them, the Merkel does not. I own a Searcy but I honestly think the Heym is a better gun. For the money difference get the Searcy.