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

I could certainly go for some pudding.

We broke out my Merkel 470 at the house the evening before Dad's funeral. Broke a couple of new heavy shooters in on it. Aside of some muttered profanities (city boys) there were no ill effects. Some clays were viciously powdered though. Maybe time to have a custom mould made up...
 
BigUglyMan said:
I could certainly go for some pudding.

We broke out my Merkel 470 at the house the evening before Dad's funeral. Broke a couple of new heavy shooters in on it. Aside of some muttered profanities (city boys) there were no ill effects. Some clays were viciously powdered though. Maybe time to have a custom mould made up...
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Tell them to slip a couple Kotex under their bra-strap. Helpful hints like that are always appreciated.:d
 
This will all be old news to most, but reminds me of my brief stay in Ireland, breakfast in particular.

"Would you like pudding, we have black and white?"

"I ugh.. Sure, yes pudding would do."

"Here you are..."

"This is sausage.... I ugh?"

"Yes. The dark one is blood, the light one is bone marrow."

I was more comfortable with that than pudding for breakfast, so it was all (reasonably) good from there! Most of our ancestors unless you come from the Tudor line (mine are Scottish not Irish mind you) were hell for poor and blood and bones was all they got. Haggis had similar origins, and many of the traditions survived into modern day. You have to admire it and I reflect on it every time my kids won't eat BBQ chicken...
 
c-fbmi said:
How the hell did we get from scoped 470 Merkels to Haggis.....................
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Both are acquired tastes, take a strong shoulder and stomach respectively, both are old as dirt and going strong, and neither does good things for the animal. Much the same can be said about old Scottish farmers.

I'll be damned, that's my 10,000th post... I would have thought it would have much more meaning. Such is life.
 
c-fbmi said:
Why would the regulation change? Doubles are not nearly as fragile as some people think, nor does the regulation change from 4, 8X40 holes in the rib. Once the barrels are regulated and the final soldering has been done it takes way more than mounting a scope on the rib to change the regulation of a good double rifle.
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You're quite right. Conventional wisdom (even Graeme Wright's fairly definitive "Shooting the British Double Rifle" book) seems to assume that adding a scope will bugger up the regulation. While my own experience is limited to a sample size of one, I found my Merkel double in .450-400 NE shoots exactly the same whether the factory-supplied scope is on or off. Given how common a feature it is on Merkel doubles these days to include claw mounts for scope mounting straight from the factory, I can only assume that Merkel itself doesn't anticipate serious regulation issues when a scope is added or removed.
 
Neo said:
You're quite right. Conventional wisdom (even Graeme Wright's fairly definitive "Shooting the British Double Rifle" book) seems to assume that adding a scope will bugger up the regulation.
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Maybe that darn rifle needs a pair of scopes mounted awn it.
One over each bawrell?
Binawckular style?

Could we be on to something werth pattenning?
 
Good to see we all got back on track��
I glad to see someone had more guts than I to D&T there Merkle, and it worked out!
When I ordered my model 240 SXS Cape gun ,mount with Leopold scope mounted by factory, a $3500 option!!!!!!
And there is no real worries about regulating a rifle and shotgun barrel!
But tell the truth, did the first hole drilled hurt��?
Great thread, now to make plans for my new Talley Style mount!
Cheers Dale Z
 
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