I've only shot my Merkel 140 470 with Hornady DG series factory ammo and would like to find out what the factory regulation load was? Just bought a set of reloading dies on sale on amazon and am looking to find out what projectile to start with for best accuracy with my rifle. Do I contact someone at Merkel directly with the rifle's SN? No test target is in the box, bought from Cabela's in 2010.

I would call Merkel. Or someone with a new one can look on the test target; I suspect they are using Hornady. But you can bet that it will be a 500 grain bullet at 2100 fps or something close; you can't deviate too much from that. Plenty of load data that will do that.

Thank you, DPCD. I'll give them a try tomorrow. I believe I saw a number floating around for a Merkel USA gunsmith in Atlanta or so, Hubert maybe was his name? I figured it was 500's around 2150, went ahead and ordered a box of 500gr woodleigh softs and 500gr tsx's (on sale a Midway right now....) to give a shot. Looks like plenty of load data for 4831 with both of these projectiles. Really looking forward to starting to shoot my double more. Seems too much of a shame to let it perculate in the safe all the time.

Merkel-USA has an article about this that you may find helpful

http://www.merkel-usa.com/news...e5bcf033564177d0385d