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Here's the gun. While not the prettiest piece of walnut, is that wrist asking for trouble? I normally like to see grain flowing through the wrist to the receiver, but does the functional strength look compromised?
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Probably ok for a 20 ga boxlock.
Socialism is almost the worst.
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should be OK....but the gun is overpriced....
everybody is digging their merkels out from the back of the closet trying to sell the for 1000/1500 more than they would of brought a couple years ago....just because merkel raised their prices and cheapened the guns....
Last edited by gunut; 04/10/16 10:11 AM.
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Seems somewhat on-par with similar listings. Maybe $400 too high, but not egregious.
Cabelas tends to put things "on sale" when they want to move them, too.
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everybody is digging their merkels out from the back of the closet trying to sell the for 1000/1500 more than they would of brought a couple years ago....just because merkel raised their prices and cheapened the guns....
Such is the market I suppose. If that's a post-GDR gun, then I don't think it's a terrible price if they'd go down to $4k. I don't see the importation stamp on it, though.
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it was made 1995 or later, that is when the changed the rear of the receivers profile....4000 might be OK I they have box and papers for it....
don't think they offered the 20ga with a 28in barrel until sometime after 2000.....
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I also think it is somewhat overpriced.
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Lots of good options for $4000-$5000 - I've seen Merkel ELs for that money, Parker Reproductions, etc.
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You wanna talk overpriced? Check out this one! I agree, I wouldn't pay full price for that. Most of the EL's I see in that price range have the scary Merkel single trigger or some funky chokes like cyl/cyl.
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