Doubling the Double

20 April 2006, 02:52

Lhook7

Doubling the Double

I thought I better get my version of the story out while That Texan is still on a flight back to Houston, because I am sure he is scrambling to get to his computer to post this.

AR member and Searcy DSC raffle winner, That Texan came to Phoenix on business this week. We decided to go out to the desert yesterday afternoon and shoot my 500 NE Merkel. I shot pretty well, so I was feeling pretty cocky. On my last two rounds I said I was going to shoot them as fast as I could and see what type of grouping I could manage.

I didnâ€™t put my finger as far around the trigger as I usually do so I could fire them as fast at possible. I fired the right barrel, the recoil knocked my finger off the front trigger, I guess I continued to squeeze and caught the rear trigger. The two shots were nearly instantaneous.

That Texan thought it was some kind of echo until he looked at me and saw me in roughly the same position as Daffy Duck when he tried to shoot Elmer Fudd, bent over backward with my spine running at roughly a 90 degree angle to my legs.

The recoil was not as bad as I would have imagined, but it did bang the hell out of my knuckles. The worst part was That Texan giving me crap all night.

20 April 2006, 03:10

JPK

Ouch. But how was the grouping?

JPK

20 April 2006, 03:13

Lhook7

I think they stayed in the same county.

20 April 2006, 04:15

Charles_Helm

quote:
Originally posted by Lhook7:
I think they stayed in the same county.

20 April 2006, 05:03

577NitroExpress

eh, don't feel bad...Rusty doubled a double at the last DRSS hunt...

there is a picture of it somewhere on here....

Love ya, Rusty!!!!

20 April 2006, 05:34

C.Wathen

What am I laughing at, if I know myself half as well as I think I do, whenever I get a double I'll unfortunatly do the same thing.

20 April 2006, 08:03

Hog Killer

Lee, my question is did you learn anything from this experiance? lol

Hog Killer

20 April 2006, 08:21

retreever

Just think if you were within 6 yds of a bull ele you may have hit him in the head with both slugs...

Mike

20 April 2006, 08:37

JPK

Same county eh? Very good shooting!

JPK

20 April 2006, 10:17

308Sako

Nice group...

Ouch

20 April 2006, 13:28

Rusty

Yep,
First time to shoot a Merkel 470. Double that bad boy! I beleive that the photo shows me with a "slightly" elevated muzzle

What this doesn't show is that Perry in the background injured his back when he fell to the ground laughing!

I can attest that the recoil from a doubled 470 is less than that of right barrel of a 500 Merkel!

Rusty
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