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A few months back I took retreever up on his offer to meet him and a few other gents a couple hours east of here and touch off a few double rifle rounds. I ended up shooting his .450 No.2, Doc52's .577 NE, a .470 NE and a .500 NE. You all know how that goes -- them bastages set the hook....deep. I may never get to Africa anytime soon...with the way work's going...but I've got a sweet new rifle to play with until then. This afternoon I picked up a like new Merkel .470 NE (140-2) with simply gorgeous wood.  The rifle came with better than 100 rds of brass, 50+ factory rounds, 5 bags of Kynoch wads (filler), several hundred bullets (Woodleigh, North Fork, Trophy Bonded Bear Claws, lead, jacketed, etc...), and all the necessary RCBS die (three boxes), and a nice leather belt cartridge holder. I can hardly wait to get out and play. Mike/Doc -- When we gonna play again? | ||
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Congrats on the new rifle....I love it when the bug bites new blood. Welcome to the party! ****************************************************************** 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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ha ha,another one bites the double rifle bug  welcome to the party! | |||
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Congrats! Looks great! JPK  Free 500grains | |||
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Hi Matt, I hope you enjoy it for a long, LONG time! Jack OH GOD! {Seriously, we need the help.} | |||
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Matt, Congrats on your rifle. I had one just like yours, you will enjoy it...my eyes just got to the point I have to have scoped rifles and just cannot bring myself to put a scope on a DR. I sent you an email of the Pelican case I have for sale. Also have a soft Boyt case and 470 NE stuff (dies, brass, etc for sale). Have a blast! Jim | |||
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Matt, What else do you expect when you hang out with "characters" if infamous repute? Next thing you know you'll be eating gunpowder and howling at the moon. Great looking rifle! Congratulations and welcome to the club. SCI Life Member DSC Life Member | |||
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I'm glad he sold it and I'm glad you bought it. Dave Taber's a nice guy. Great price, generous package. | |||
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Congratulations, on your new 470, I have one exactly like it, and it shoots very well! Now you have to add the DRSS to your sig line! Welcome to 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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Matt, I am typing this and can't help smiling  ...Welcome to the club...When we get a little snow melt, I think it will be range time.... If your schedule works maybe even a trip to the Vintager's shoot in Maryland... Mike | |||
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Matt, don't feel too bad, we all get hooked deep on the first one.... and the second one...and the third.....you get the idea. Whats bad is when you start thinking with every dollar you spend could be going on ammo, or another double, or a hunting trip.I hope you enjoy the rifle, it looks like a nice one! | |||
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Matt, As I recall, Mike was also an evil influence on me. He and Rusty. I succumbed in January of 2006. In all seriousness, I never met any group of gentlemen that went so far out of their way to help at the time complete strangers. And someone letting you shoot their double rifle with no strings attached was and still is a unique experience. I am glad I can count myself as a part of the DRSS. SCI Life Member DSC Life Member | |||
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Matt, congratulations sir! As you now know and jim and other s before you. When you come to one of these DRSS events and get to shoot a double, well. . . . "The First One is Free!" 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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Congratulations. Good news is that while you agonize over the first one, it gets much easier to buy each subsequent one.  Mike | |||
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Matt, Sorry to sink that darned hook so deep! It looks like you got yourself a real BEAUTY there! I can't wait till we can get together for a little range time! Congats! 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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Matt, Congrats, on your new mistress!!! I wasn't aware that you took the bait, hook, line, and sinker!!!! She sure is a beauty! I can't wait untill we can get some range time in! 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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congrats indeed!!!! you will only regret not having done whatever you had to do to get one of these babies sooner than you did........at least that's how it is for me DRSS | |||
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