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After saving for ages, I was able to purchase a used Merkel 140-2 in .500NE. The rifle shoots great. Check it out!    | ||
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Very nice. Looks like new. Congratulations and enjoy. Mike | |||
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The 500 nitro is a great round. I am sure you will enjoy it! Nice looking gun, be proud, after all it is a double. | |||
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Congratulations. Nice looking double. DOUBLE RIFLE SHOOTERS SOCIETY | |||
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Looks like the sights have been replaced with express sights. Major improvement. Congrats. ------------------------------------------------ "Serious rifles have two barrels, everything else just burns gunpowder." | |||
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Tongo, I hope you enjoy your 500NE. My Son and I had a Merkel 500NE that was our first DR. Since then we purchased a 577NE from Butch Searcy, which we LOVE, and sold off our Merkle, hoping to find a SWEET British DR! The Best of Luck with your DR. Doc52 B. Searcy & Co .577 NE Double Rifle Shooters Society "Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well armed lamb contesting the vote!" Benjamin Franklin 1759 | |||
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I know if I had a 500 Nitro Express I would load me up some deer and pig Nitro for Black, loads with the 440gr Woodleigh BPEX bullest over 56 grains of IMR 4198 with a compressed filler of dacron. [15 to 20 grains of Dacron] Velocity should be about 1850 fps. You might have to adjust the powder charge up or down a little to get regulation. DOUBLE RIFLE SHOOTERS SOCIETY | |||
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Congratulations! Welcome to the DRSS! 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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Can i ask what you paid for it roughly? I want membership to your club also.....  | |||
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Mark those are stock sights on that rifle, and they are the square notch. 10 minutes with a file will do the trick, however!  Congratulations Tongo! Welcome to the DRSS!  ....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's a fine rifle! Now you just need to plan on coming to a DRSS shoot in the near future. Congratulations! SCI Life Member DSC Life Member | |||
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Congratulations  I have seen the 500 NE do evil things to Cape Buffalo. Enjoy Jim "Bwana Umfundi" NRA | |||
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Nice looking gun!  577NitroExpress Double Rifle Shooters Society Francotte .470 Nitro Express  If stupidity hurt, a lot of people would be walking around screaming... | |||
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Congratulations! You are definitely a member of the DRSS now! Nice lookin' rifle, that. Enjoy Mike -------------- DRSS, Womper's Club, NRA Life Member/Charter Member NRA Golden Eagles ... Knifemaker, http://www.mstarling.com | |||
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Regardless of public opinnion, the .500 will kill better than the .470! Nice gun. Ray Atkinson Atkinson Hunting Adventures 10 Ward Lane, Filer, Idaho, 83328 208-731-4120 rayatkinsonhunting@gmail.com | |||
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Welcome and congratulations. That rifle is going to be a very nice companion on some serious hunts!  Member NRA, SCI- Life #358 28+ years now! DRSS, double owner-shooter since 1983, O/U .30-06 Browning Continental set. | |||
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Congratulations Tongo. Nice looking double. Bill 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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Good choice I really like the Merkels and the .500 is sure nuff got the authority on anything walking this planet. My merkel is over 50 years old and still going strong congradulations DRSS NRA life AK Master Guide 124 | |||
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