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This is my 1st post on the dbl. forum. I don't own a DR, and am not too knowledgeable on them. I was looking around on gunbroker, and ran into this: http://www.gunbroker.com/Aucti....aspx?Item=158119829 To my uneducated eye, this looks like a deal! Yes/no? Just wanting to learn something here. Mad Dog | ||
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It is a deal, Merkel doubles usually cost more.. EXCEPT for "sometimes the ejectors don't work" At least the seller is honest. I say keep walking...JMHO If you want a good double in 9.3x74r and your budget is less than 5K look at getting a Chapuis. I got one a year ago and I don't regret it for a minute. PM me for info on Chapui doubles if you are seriously interested. Good Luck NRA Life DRSS Searcy 470 NE The poster formerly known as Uglystick | |||
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Somone got a screaming deal that should be bragged about for years to come! This rifle went out the door for $3000. Even with the ejector problems it was a steal! NRA Life ASSRA Life DRSS Today's Quote: Give a man a fish and he eats for a day. Give a man a welfare check, a free cell phone with free monthly minutes, food stamps, section 8 housing, a forty ounce malt liquor, a crack pipe and some Air Jordan's and he votes Democrat for a lifetime. | |||
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A new one like that retails well over 3 times that amount, the beauty on a high end gun is to have it fixed fairly easy, I would have jumped on that myself NRA Life Member, ILL Rifle Assoc Life Member, Navy | |||
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I would have bought that DR in a heartbeat and sent it directly to Merkel in Alabama. They probably would have fixed it for free. My friend sent his to them and they could not fix it so they sent him a new gun and upgraded him. He is delighted. BUTCH C'est Tout Bon (It is all good) | |||
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Boys, when I posted the link this AM, the gun was still up for sale. Wonder if someone lurking here, snatched the deal?  Mad Dog | |||
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I actually was hopeing that you snagged it MD> NRA Life ASSRA Life DRSS Today's Quote: Give a man a fish and he eats for a day. Give a man a welfare check, a free cell phone with free monthly minutes, food stamps, section 8 housing, a forty ounce malt liquor, a crack pipe and some Air Jordan's and he votes Democrat for a lifetime. | |||
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Mike, woulda loved to except for 1 small thing...MONEY! Mad Dog | |||
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Hi guys Friend off mine is looking for a double under $9 000.00 witch one would you suggest.He was looking at Krighoff but they are too expensive here in South Africa. Is Chapuis a good double rifle? He is looking for a double in .500 nitro All that is needed for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing!! | |||
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Well Mad Dog (may I call you Bird Dog?), I couldn't help myself. Now let's see if I get the gun or get burned. I left a voice mail and sent an email to the seller, Javier, in Miami. Called the home number and a woman who didn't speak English hung up on me 3x. In my email I proposed that I send the cashiers check (made out to the seller) to the FFL dealer who will be shipping the gun. I got burned a couple years ago on a Zeiss scope I never saw. I'll keep you posted. Don Deo Vindice, Don Sons of Confederate Veterans Black Horse Camp #780 | |||
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WOW......screaming deal. | |||
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Mr Soter, If you're the LUCKY DOG... I'd grab the next plane south and camp out on his door step with a translator to assist.. Congratulations! NRA Life ASSRA Life DRSS Today's Quote: Give a man a fish and he eats for a day. Give a man a welfare check, a free cell phone with free monthly minutes, food stamps, section 8 housing, a forty ounce malt liquor, a crack pipe and some Air Jordan's and he votes Democrat for a lifetime. | |||
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Don, you made a good buy there! If I didn't already have two double rifles chambered for 9.3X74R one of them a 140E Merkel I would have bought it myself, and almost did anyway. I have had my 140E for 9 yrs, and it is a shooter, and has become my favorite double rifle under .400 cal. The ejectors will likely be an easy fix, and the 140E.1 is no longer available new! These little rifles have become a a highly sought after rifles, especially chambered for the 9.3X74R. Nobody would get mine for even $10K much less $3K! ............congratulations  ....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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Donald, hope your deal works! Glad to have been a "bird dog" for one of the boys here on AR  Mad Dog | |||
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Good luck, looks like a good buy. | |||
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smoking deal, they are very good rifles indeed. congratulations. best peter | |||
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Thanks guys!! Just got back home. Seller will receive cashiers check and FFL by noon tomorrow. After I lick the honey off, it will go to Herbert at GSI to fix the ejectors and install Recknagel bases where the rib was drilled and tapped. Don Deo Vindice, Don Sons of Confederate Veterans Black Horse Camp #780 | |||
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Do some thinking about asking the seller about the bases he had on there... It might be worth your while. NRA Life ASSRA Life DRSS Today's Quote: Give a man a fish and he eats for a day. Give a man a welfare check, a free cell phone with free monthly minutes, food stamps, section 8 housing, a forty ounce malt liquor, a crack pipe and some Air Jordan's and he votes Democrat for a lifetime. | |||
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Also consider having a local sherrif or other law enforcement person do an FBI data base search to verify that the rifle isn't listed as stolen!! Always a good plan when you get above $1000 Bob Nisbet Bob Nisbet DRSS & 348 Lever Winchester Lover Temporarily Displaced Texan If there's no food on your plate when dinner is done, you didn't get enough to eat. | |||
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Here is the link to FBI NCIC: http://www.fas.org/irp/agency/doj/fbi/is/ncic.htm Bob Nisbet Bob Nisbet DRSS & 348 Lever Winchester Lover Temporarily Displaced Texan If there's no food on your plate when dinner is done, you didn't get enough to eat. | |||
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That's a great deal! The ejectors are a modified Southgate system. They are very easy to work on. We have done a few in our shop. I would'nt be suprised if it's a very simple repair. | |||
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Don, Look at it this way, worse comes to worse, you have a very nice extracter rifle! 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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