Thanks Larry. Never realized Merkel had a low-price offering until I saw the NIB leftovers @ Mark's Born Again Birdguns. Looking at a couple of Kebco guns also. Buddy has an older scallop-back J. P. Sauer 16 ga. on the Euro model with cheekpiece, pistol grip and swivels. I shot a couple of stations of skeet with it; seemed friendly enuf and got me looking at the genre.

jack