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< 16ga. Guns ~ Merkel |
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Sun Feb 16, 2020 12:29 pm
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Joined: 28 Mar 2008
Posts: 1460
Location: Eagle, Nebraska
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Just bought a new to me Merkel Model 8 in 16ga, double triggers. Built in '76.
Has good dimensions, fits me very well, choked great too, light imp cylinder and light modified. Should be a really good pheasant, quail, hun and chicken gun.
Knuckle buster, just like my Merkel 12ga.
Just ordered some bump guards for it. |
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Sun Feb 16, 2020 4:01 pm
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Joined: 15 Apr 2007
Posts: 9472
Location: Amarillo, Texas
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Sun Feb 16, 2020 4:20 pm
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Joined: 28 Mar 2008
Posts: 1460
Location: Eagle, Nebraska
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I was thinking about something like that, thanks, I will give them a try. |
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Sun Feb 16, 2020 5:00 pm
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Joined: 06 Aug 2004
Posts: 2175
Location: Kansas High Plains
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I have these on all my double guns; wouldn't shoot without it! They work a lot better than any of the "home made" ones I tried, and look a bit classier too …
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_________________ I feel a warm spot in my heart when I meet a man whiling away an afternoon...and stopping to chat with him, hear the sleek lines of his double gun whisper "Sixteen." - Gene Hill, Shotgunner's Notebook |
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Mon Feb 17, 2020 4:54 am
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Joined: 09 Jan 2013
Posts: 2171
Location: Florida
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Don't remember ever having that problem with my double guns. Just lucky I guess. |
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Mon Feb 17, 2020 5:21 am
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Joined: 19 Jan 2008
Posts: 680
Location: MAINE
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That's too bad , I've never had that problem . I wonder why some do . |
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Mon Feb 17, 2020 7:37 am
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Joined: 24 Jun 2013
Posts: 2068
Location: canandaigua - western n.y. (formerly deerhunter)
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Char used to have band aids waiting for me when I went to Moo - Davis is a knuckler !! |
_________________ Molly sez AArrrooooooah ! |
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Mon Feb 17, 2020 10:43 am
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Joined: 21 May 2010
Posts: 603
Location: Victoria BC Canada
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I have a 16 ga. Merkell Model 8 of about the same vintage. I bought it used online from a vendor I knew and trusted. Lo & Behold. It arrived with a first quality mark. I shot 23/25 at trap with it at a vintage match for third place, with the first shots I ever put through it. It never caused me any injury.
P.S: date mark is 274. February 1974. Double trigger. Plain looking, but comes to the eye perfectly when coming to the point. |
Last edited by Carlos on Tue Feb 18, 2020 10:35 am; edited 1 time in total |
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Tue Feb 18, 2020 9:54 am
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Joined: 27 Jun 2012
Posts: 1115
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Strange, but my single trigger SXS's never abuse my second finger. My only double trigger gun that I keep around to remind myself why I don't prefer them does that with great regularity. |
_________________ An elderly gentleman, his faithful dogs, and a 16 ga SXS. All is right with the world. |
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Tue Feb 18, 2020 1:02 pm
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Joined: 02 Feb 2007
Posts: 1739
Location: Central Missouri
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3/4 , 5/8 or 1/2 oz loads never do harm .
13/16 would be the perfect load with 7/8 oz as the Magnum loads according to Ole Ben Felton .
My heavy load is 3/4 oz with 5/8 my norm and 1/2 oz is coming on strong as my favorite for most things with choke.
Ole Ben and I both agreed that the 13/16 oz loads were the best of the best loads tested , but I have used 3/4 oz since the 80's and have never looked back.
Folks history , tradition and always done it this or that way is keeping you from the greatest joy in shooting .
LIGHT LOADS !!! 🤗🤗🤗🤗
If you need more range than what light loads will cover ???
They make a tool for that , it's called a RIFLE.
No pain makes for more gain than extra shot that serves no purpose.
Take it for what it's worth .
Regards , Nick |
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Mon Feb 24, 2020 7:39 am
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Joined: 01 Dec 2005
Posts: 1550
Location: Minnesota and Florida
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The Knuckle Buster Issue -- I find those that "fly" their elbows have knuckle busting problems with straight grip guns. These are most likely folks that started their shooting lives with rifles, most likely pistol-gripped rifles, probably shooting prone, and carry the trigger hand elbow (and probably the pointing hand elbow also) parallel to the ground in their mount/stance. Some extremists have the elbow ear high or even higher. This rotates the trigger hand so the middle finger is "endangered" by the back edge of the trigger guard, and "weakens" the grip, preventing the hand from taking recoil through the grip as well as it should. The gun is then more free to slide back, and recoil drives the trigger guard back into that endangered middle finger. Probably, the more the victim is affected, the more he turns up or "weakens" his grip in anticipation of pain, making things worse. The answer is to change the mount to lower the elbows (both of them) to around 45 degrees down, and get the pointing hand (the forward one) a little straighter, too -- more forward. |
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