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Hootch
PostPosted: Sun Mar 10, 2019 1:50 pm  Reply with quote



Joined: 28 Mar 2008
Posts: 1460
Location: Eagle, Nebraska

Well a Merkel followed me home today. Alas, just an ordinary 12 ga, but too good of a deal to pass up.
anyway, the choke marking are 1/4 and 3/4, shop checked them (with what I do not know) and said it was choked modified and Improved Modified.
to me 1/4 and 3/4 would indicate Imp Cyl and Modified. But I do know that Merkels have a reputation of being tightly choked, it is a 1990 mfd gun. (without a mark or any indication of ever being fired, heck, I think I am first person to take the forend off! store personnel did not know how to do it, and it was stiff)

ANy help on the choke markings? I realize the marking are all moot point, only patterning will tell the truth, but curious.
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Pine Creek/Dave
PostPosted: Sun Mar 10, 2019 2:20 pm  Reply with quote



Joined: 17 Mar 2017
Posts: 2787
Location: Endless Mountains of Pa

Hooch,

For all my Classic American and German double guns I use the Brass CSMC slide in choke measuring tool, gives a pretty darn good idea of the actual chokes. My German Best guns all shoot a little tighter patterns for sure. SpredR shells work great in them.

Merkel made the chokes to what ever the client ordered.

Congrats on a fine new gun!

Pine Creek/Dave
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Carlos
PostPosted: Sun Mar 10, 2019 6:31 pm  Reply with quote



Joined: 21 May 2010
Posts: 602
Location: Victoria BC Canada

Any help here: http://shotguns.se/html/east_germany.html

You can navigate to find proofmark tables for other nations.
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