I used my Merkel .450-400 3" Nitro Express to shoot a bull elk last September. I was preparing for a hunt in Namibia for Buffalo and wanted to get some real experience with the rifle. It is equipped with a scope, and will group 6 shots, three from each barrel in 5CM at 50 meters. The elk was way off across a hayfield, and so I called it in to about 130 M and took a broadside high lung shot. It was a very foggy morning and when the elk dashed away I was worried I'd messed up the shot. I found it dead about 200 M away from the spot where it was when shot, hung up in some thick spruce saplings with a couple small chunks of lung hanging out of the exit hole. Ammunition was the new Hornady DGX bonded. I think it was an example of a bullet just too tough to produce a quick kill even with good shot placement. The rifle and ammo went on to produce a quick kill on a cape buffalo a few weeks later.
