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“The scoutscope doth not a scout rifle make.”
Jeff Cooper, Vol. 5, No. 3 March, 1997
(This Merkel project reminds me of that quote)

feed smoothly, practice this if
Magazine details: Merkel of-

you hunt a lot.

fers a 3 and 5 round magazine.

Final thoughts:
I really like this rifle.

I ran both for the course, they

The same drill can be done with

fed superbly. I had a couple of

no magazine at all, turn the rifle

It does EVERYTHING that I need

nosedives with ammo which

onto it’s left side completely, port

a rifle to do with little hassle or

could have been caused by dirt

load it and run the bolt forward,

drama. All my optics mount on

in the mags. This was not re-

THEN shoulder it. This skill set is

it easily and the switch barrel is

peatable throughout the course

not natural to most shooters, try

AWESOME

with any mags. The magazines

it a few times at the range before

have a rugged steel tube with a

going afield where it might be a

Merkel Data from:

molded black plastic base/spring

life/game saver.

http://www.merkel-die-jagd.de/

housing. Cleaning them is easy,

en/produkte/gewehre/

the bottom portion slides off/on

http://rx-helix.com/

quickly.
Calibers: Mini: .222 Rem.; .223
As a push-feed rifle you can

Rem. Standard: .243 Win.; 6,5x55

easily pop a round into the cham-

SE; .270 Win.; 7x64;.308 Win.;

ber and run the bolt forward to

.30-06; 8x57IS; 9,3x62 Magnum:

get it loaded and shoot. You CAN

7 mm Rem.; .300 Win. Mag

get that round to nosedive, tilt
the rifle to the left to allow it to
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