Scoped my Merkel Double 470 NE....Photos Up !!!!

bearkilr said:
I was referring more to the H&R base. cou:
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It is a Talley one piece base that is originally designed for the H&R. We just used this as a starting point but as said we machined the base flat and milled it to straddle the rib. It appears to be a good quality steel base and what it was originally designed for is quite irrelevant. I also said that we upgraded the original 3 screw 6X48 attachment to 4 screw 8X40.
Regardless, it'll all be determined by the actual firing and repeatability testing, then we'll all know where the bear sh!t in the buckbrush, won't we.

Hoyt.........pudding....putting....whatever..........I was taught that it was putting, because the proof was in the putting it to the test.
 
c-fbmi said:
Hoyt.........pudding....putting....whatever..........I was taught that it was putting, because the proof was in the putting it to the test.
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The sentiment is the same... namely, you have to try it to see if it is good...

The original saying was; "The proof of the pudding is in the eating." Over time it morphed into; "the proof is in the pudding."

Semantics... carry on.
 
Looks good... mount is nice and clean. A few rounds at the range will be the proof in the pudding...

My eyesight is such that these days the only option is to scope... even apertures don't work anymore.
 
Looks great ,I like anything you can make your self ,,hope is serves you well for many years to come ,,Dutch...ps I am volunteering to run it threw a full test this fall on white tails ,,
 
Well gentlemen, as Hoyt says "The proof is in the pudding" and I guess I have made some damn good pudding !!!!!!!




After 4 shots from the right barrel to get it near perfect on the black dot, I fired 2 more rights and 2 lefts, removed this target and put up a new one. I fired one right (1R) and one left (1L). I removed the scope and went down and marked my shots, came back remounted the scope and fired one right (2R) and one left (2L) and repeated for the third time, removing the scope, marking my shots and then remounting the scope and firing the third round (3R) and (3L).

The regulation is a tad off because I screwed up and loaded these with H4831 when I worked up my loads with IMR 4831.......brain fart.......but they still shoot OK. This shooting was done at roughly 50 mtrs as paced off, not measured. This load should all be in the same hole between 25-30 mtrs which is where most animals needing a 470 NE are shot, so the R-L spread isn't all bad either.
Let me tell you, it takes pretty much all the concentration I can muster to shoot 14 or 15 rounds of full bore 470 NE off sand bags.
 
No one is commenting on the fact that I REMOVED and reinstalled the scope between each set of left and right shots and attained the groups shown..........I personally think this is amazing, the groups alone are quite spectacular with a rifle producing well over 5000 ft/lbs of muzzle energy, let alone removing and replacing the scope between each pair of shots.................Maybe I'm just easily impressed.........
 
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