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Caracal International acquires Merkel for hunting Caracal based in Abu Dhabi has acquired full ownership of Merkel, hunting guns and light weapons. Caracal a UAE handgun manufacturer was reported to be associated with AR's own Saeed al Maktoum of Dubai at least in the early start of the company (Saeed - any connection? Might you be using a nice German double soon?  )Full story: UAE Caracal Int buys Merkel Hunting & Light weapons | ||
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Do we now get an AR discount? ------------------------------- Will Stewart / Once you've been amongst them, there is no such thing as too much gun. --------------------------------------- and, God Bless John Wayne. NRA Benefactor Member, GOA, N.A.G.R. _________________________ "Elephant and Elephant Guns" $99 shipped “Hunting Africa's Dangerous Game" $20 shipped. red.dirt.elephant@gmail.com _________________________ Hoping to wind up where elephant hunters go. | |||
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It is more l9ikely that Merkel will be making a plastic stocked bolt rifle with a stainless steel action and barrel. It will be chambered for some sort of 375/404 wildcat cartridge.  465H&H | |||
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I hope they continue to make the 141(e) model. I just shot mine at 100 meters and shot four shots into less than 3" with just a 2.5x scope. JudgeG ... just counting time 'til I am again finding balm in Gilead chilled out somewhere in the Selous. | |||
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I hope the new owners make magnum mauser .505Gibbs in left hand and a double in 450/400-3" ejector! 12x12/9.3x74R | |||
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unless there are a lot of left handed arabs you'll not be seeing a left handed gibbs or any other leftie rifle. why don't you just accept its a right hand world and get on board ? surely you can learn , can't you ? or continue to struggle shooting right hand rifles the wrong way. TOMO577 DOUBLE RIFLE SHOOTERS SOCIETY | |||
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Saeed, If this is true, could you please convince them to include ejectors on their large bore double rifles. Also, a double in 450/400 3" would be nice  Tim | |||
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I thought the new Merkel's were comeing with ejectors already? | |||
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They are coming with ejectors next year! This buy off could be good, but I have my doubts! In all history of the firearms business, when a new "up start" buys an old traditional arms company, the results is usually a poor imatation of the origenal, because of cost cutting measures, and robotic manufacturing, being the mantra of the bean counters!  ....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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Mac The good news is that most UAE companies, especially those in the "family" business, tend to take the long view. They are not quarter to quarter cutters and slashers like we see so much of here. They actually apply what we teach our MBA's. Look at Emirates Air - a huge capital investment even by middle eastern standards to make the airline a true world competitor and to make the UAE a serious international contender. And with a government more business friendly than most countries (Haliburton is in the process of moving their HQ there), the prospects for Merkel look to be pretty bright. SCI Life Member DSC Life Member | |||
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I heard there are no taxes in UAE, anyone know if that is true? Is that no income, property, sales tax? | |||
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Macd the first merkel big bore ejector rifles are on their way enroute to usa as you read this. all six of them. supposed to be 2 - 500 ne, 2 -470 ne and 2 -375 H&H don't get left out in the cold till next year. call and order one now. it will save a long wait. or we can convert you non-ejector merkel for $1,000.00 TOMO577 DOUBLE RIFLE SHOOTERS SOCIETY | |||
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Jim, you most likely right in regard to the Dubai folks,and their business sense, but there is no history of double rifle technology in Dubai, or any Arabian country. It seems to me their treditional interest, with rifles,has been along the lines of bolt rifles, and machineguns for the most part. That fact alone would negate there being great number of artisans with double rifle expertise. Of course, they could always import double rifle makers from Germany, I suppose. ....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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Hey, what's the problem with a belt fed double? SCI Life Member DSC Life Member | |||
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In the 80's oil rich arabs were buying up all the english double rifles they could find for investment purposes. There is a huge stock of them some where in the middle east. 465H&H | |||
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Owning them, and makeing them are two different things, intirely! ....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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Of course, they could always import double rifle makers from Germany, I suppose.[/QUOTE] Bingo. You don't have to know how to do it yourself, just how to hire some one who does. The trick is knowing enough to separate a real expert from the wannabes. ...I say that hunters go into Paradise when they die, and live in this world more joyfully than any other men. -Edward, Duke of York | |||
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Hi OOOOOOOOOH great news now I am going to buy a good douel rifle from my brothers yazid Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy; its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery. | |||
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in all probability they want merkel technology for other uses. most likely for products to be made in U.A.E. they say they will expand merkel marketing in asia, middle east and africa.... plus usa. THAT WILL BE GOOD FOR MERKEL BUSINESS. i never read anything about them moving the company. has anyone ? TOMO577 DOUBLE RIFLE SHOOTERS SOCIETY | |||
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Maybe Walter can lead them. ALLEN W. JOHNSON - DRSS Into my heart on air that kills From yon far country blows: What are those blue remembered hills, What spires, what farms are those? That is the land of lost content, I see it shining plain, The happy highways where I went And cannot come again. A. E. Housman | |||
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Not until there´s beer, I mean REAL Beer, WITH Alcohol, sold everywhere in the country. Or, even better, Saaed or somebody else builds a brewery ... ;-) H formerly, before software update, known as "aHunter", lost 1000 posts in a minute | |||
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