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Religion: A founder of The Church of Spray and Pray
Acquit v. t. To render a judgment in a murder case in San Francisco... EQUAL, adj. As bad as something else. Ambrose Bierce “The Devil's Dictionary”
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NICE!
I was wondering if that followed you home. Not only beautiful but about as versatile as a single gun can be.
Enjoy,
Bfly
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After the first shot the rest are just noise.
Make mine a Minaska
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Bruce-
It's a disease for which there is no cure....
Enjoy it!!
Pursuit may be, it seems to me, perfect without possession.
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Bruce-
It's a disease for which there is no cure....
Enjoy it!! It's been chronic with me for 63 years. 
Hunt with Class and Classics
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Nice engraving. I tried to learn engraving early in my gunsmithing careeer and was coached by one of the best engravers I’ve ever seen. Finally just gave up. But it gave me an understanding and appreciation of good engraving.
A lot of the game scene work on German guns isn’t very good with the critters looking like caricatures. I’d rather have no engraving or light scrollwork than poor game scene.
This one is very well done from what I can see.
Is it muzzle heavy with the einstecklauf in?
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Nice engraving. I tried to learn engraving early in my gunsmithing careeer and was coached by one of the best engravers I’ve ever seen. Finally just gave up. But it gave me an understanding and appreciation of good engraving.
A lot of the game scene work on German guns isn’t very good with the critters looking like caricatures. I’d rather have no engraving or light scrollwork than poor game scene.
This one is very well done from what I can see.
Is it muzzle heavy with the einstecklauf in? Nailed it Bray! There were a lot of great gun-makers who could join three barrels together, all shooting where they should, and set them into a receiver on face, then build all the small parts a combo gun's engineering requires That Couldn't carve their initials into a big oak tree so's you could read them. I've seen cartoon characters scratched into receivers of excellent drillings many times.
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I wonder if Krieghoff farmed out the high end guns (engraving). Most of the Neptunes I’ve examined were well done.
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Merkel sure should farm out theirs. They have touted master engravers who make rhino, lions, and elephants look like vintage Disney cartoons.
Neptunes are in an altogether different league, IMO.
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Merkel sure should farm out theirs. They have touted master engravers who make rhino, lions, and elephants look like vintage Disney cartoons.
Neptunes are in an altogether different league, IMO. Yes, mine too. I’ve seen some Merkel that were as you say, but have seen sone that were good .I love the older Merkel combo and had a shipment from germany with several in it some years back. I chose one with very basic scroll engraving over the others with elaborate game scenes, because it was well done. Still my favorite combo gun with an extra set of 16 barrels that I shoot quite a bit. ![[Linked Image from i.postimg.cc]](https://i.postimg.cc/9M8Q8qXT/16-C9-B570-52-AB-43-A4-B056-8-F405-B7988-B3.jpg)
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that is quite something
wishing you many years of enjoyment
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that is quite something
wishing you many years of enjoyment Many thanks. I've been looking for a 7X57R insert for it to make it a DR drilling. I just now came back here to look at brayhaven's deer/drilling photo again. I always like seeing it posted.
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