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Slightly embarrassed!
Posted: Sat Jul 27, 2013 8:57 pm
by ukrifleman
I was clay shooting last Sunday morning using my Baikal o/u which I have owned for about 30 years. All of a sudden the bottom ejector stopped working.
I took it into my local gunsmith on Monday morning to get it fixed; he removed the fore-end and barrel, smiled then reached for a small screwdriver and made an adjustment and HEY PRESTO! all was well.
It seems that the Baikal shotgun has the facility to disable the ejectors by merely turning a small slot head cam buried in the action.
It just goes to show, you are never too old to learn!
ukrifleman.
Re: Slightly embarrassed!
Posted: Sat Jul 27, 2013 9:42 pm
by the running man
Baikal are not the best looking thing in the world,but they is cheap and they keep on going long past the point of any other manufacturer!
Re: Slightly embarrassed!
Posted: Sat Jul 27, 2013 10:03 pm
by Sim G
A "USSR" marked up Baikal has outstanding materials. Fit and finish not the best, but you won't find better ordnance steel in any other shotgun..
Re: Slightly embarrassed!
Posted: Sun Jul 28, 2013 7:02 am
by ovenpaa
Another thumbs up for Baikal, they are incredibly robust and competent. If you ever get the chance shoot some Baikal cartridges the pyrotechnics are spectacular.
Re: Slightly embarrassed!
Posted: Sun Jul 28, 2013 7:17 am
by dromia
The only over and under shotgun that I ever managed to regularly break clays with was a Baikal.
Side by sides of any make I can do reasonably well with, but when it came to over and unders the Baikal was the best.
Sorry I sold it now.
Re: Slightly embarrassed!
Posted: Sun Jul 28, 2013 8:22 am
by JonC
ovenpaa wrote:Another thumbs up for Baikal, they are incredibly robust and competent. If you ever get the chance shoot some Baikal cartridges the pyrotechnics are spectacular.
I was given a thousand baikal carts a few years ago, even back then they had been banned from most clay grounds. Opened one up to have a look inside and found an interesting range of shot sizes and shapes. Lots of smoke, noise, hell of a recoil, and flames when they went bang. But boy could they kill, found them to be great on duck and pigeon, ended up having a new recoil pad fitted on my side by side to tame the recoil.
Re: Slightly embarrassed!
Posted: Sun Jul 28, 2013 9:32 am
by waterford103
I have a Baikal 12 bore single as my "chuck in the jeep " gun .It's the killingest shotgun I own , I will never sell it ( not worth much anyway ) no matter what I feed it with if I point it in the direction of a pigeon , crow or rabbit , it's dead . I tried it on geese a couple of years ago instead of lugging my Mossberg pump and did very well !
:goodjob:
