I want a double rifle

[JohnTRourke]

Who's got one?

I got to handle a .470NE Merkel yesterday and I want one.
it's only $11,000


I still want one. I just need to raise my prices.

[rondog]

MW Reynolds in Englewood, on Broadway. Bring LOTS o' cash. http://www.mwreynolds.com/ Only place I've ever even SEEN a .700 Nitro Express round.

[JohnTRourke]

yeah, that's where I handled the Merkel.
I'm thinking those .600NE rounds would be perfect for groundhogs!!!!!!!!

[Irving]

yeah, that's where I handled the Merkel.
I'm thinking those .600NE rounds would be perfect for groundhogs!!!!!!!!

If someone ever discovers a breed of burrowing elephants that wreck havoc on ranch lands, we'll know who to call.

[Hoser]

When I was young, stupid and living in Nairobi, I got to handle a bunch of double rifles. Holland & Hollands, Purdys, Berettas, ect. Being 1993 the prices were not that bad. If the importation laws were not so difficult, I would have brought back a 416 or a 470 Capstick.

And I was staying at the Hotel New Stanley. I had no friggin idea how much history that place had.

When I went back in 2006 I made sure to not make the same mistakes.

[JohnTRourke]

AND?

you got to handle them all (you suck BTW, but we'll let that go), and your feelings about them were?
what was good?
what was bad?

etc

[jerrymrc]

MW Reynolds in Englewood, on Broadway. Bring LOTS o' cash. http://www.mwreynolds.com/ Only place I've ever even SEEN a .700 Nitro Express round.

Back about 9-10 years ago my boss at the time had Hickman Rifles re barrel a gun in .700 NE. I remember ammo was something like $15 per round and not many wanted to test fire it.

[ghettodub]

MW Reynolds in Englewood, on Broadway. Bring LOTS o' cash. http://www.mwreynolds.com/ Only place I've ever even SEEN a .700 Nitro Express round.

They have some gorgeous stuff in there, I was blown away. The wood work on those shottys is stunning

[theGinsue]

That's a gorgeous rifle Brian. The furniture is absolutely high end on that thing.

So, what do you plan to shoot with that? Incoming meteors?

[rondog]

They have some gorgeous stuff in there, I was blown away. The wood work on those shottys is stunning

I took my grandson in there once to show him what really nice guns look like. They had a $60,000 shotgun that I didn't even want to get close to. Places like that with those kinds of prices make me very nervous, I'm scared to death I'll knock something over and break it.

I grew up in Enid, OK, and when I was 14 or so I used to hang around at Champlin Firearms. They hand-made high-end guns like that, double rifles and all kinds of exotic shotguns and safari type guns. At 14 I didn't really understand all that, but I remember they made some beautiful guns.

They were friendly and nice to me, just a snot-nosed hangaround kid. I remember they had a rack full of stock blanks of very exotic imported woods, blew my mind when the guys told me how much just the wood blanks alone were worth, and this was around 1970-71.

A kid I went to school with and was friends with, his dad worked there. He went on to becoming a custom gunmaker, named Clayton Nelson. A couple years ago I saw one of his rifles in a display case at the Bass Pro Shops custom gun room here in Denver. Big bucks. I have tremendous respect for high-end firearms like that, but I'm much too redneck for them.

I just did a quick Google search, and apparently this is one of Clayton Nelson's rifles. I'd be scared to even look at something like this, let alone touch it.