There seem to be more of the post-war merkels around these days and prices have dropped. Gunbroker usually has a few and Simpsonltd.com usually has some. The 16 gauges get snapped up pretty quickly.

For those of you that have handled german post-war guns, how do west german sauers and east german merkels compare? The sauer guns, especially without the crossbolt seem well made, but the engraving is crude.