20ga Baikal "Remington" SxS

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Ok I didn't completely forget this one but it did get shuffled to the back of cabinet. Times I feel like the absent minded professor but then again I get to have that New Gun feeling at least twice on some of mine. In past I have found a pistol that was bought and put aside only to surface several months down the road. This one I did in fact take out for a shooting and that was the first shotgun my wife ever shot and she didn't like it at all just imagine if it had been a 12ga. Today I pulled it back to the front and got to make a run to WallyWorld to see if there are any 20ga shells to be had. And on top it is a darn nice looking SXS, still very stiff and needs to be polished up or just work the action with around 50-75 rds.
 
I have a 12ga O/U Baikal, the thing kicks like a mule but its a great brush/budget skeet and trap gun, only run me about $300 with a box of shells from a local pawn shop and at that price I love it!
 
It's an SPR210, right?

My wife shoots one every Saturday. She's the only one on the skeet field with a side-by-side. She loves it (ever since we put a Limb-Saver on it)

Have fun with it!
 
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I was recently gifted a 12ga SxS, and when it was given by my step-father all he had were some hot reloads to try it out with. It got a leather butt pad right quick after I got it home!
 
It's an SPR210, right?
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no it's the SPR 220 in 20ga. I also use the Limb saver and it does the job quite well. Last Sat went to Turkey shoot and used a Maverick 88 with super full turkey choke on it, the Limb Saver tames it down so my skinny back side can shoot any thing other than a 22. My SPR220 has screw in chokes, expensive as heck if you can find them.
 

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Not sure about the 20 ga but the 12 ga uses standard Tru-Choke tubes which are available from Brownells and others for the same price as Winchokes and cheaper than RemChokes.
 
I installed a recoil pad on mine to lengthen the pull, mainly. Recoil is a non-issue for me with dove loads. It gets a little more frisky with 3" stuff, but not that bad. It's a coach gun and a dove killer supreme. :D I also carry it around on my woods walks and keep it loaded in the house. I lower the hammers by snapping them on snap caps and pulling the fore end off it to load 3 buck loads. Hammers stay down if you take the fore end off before breaking it open and it has floating firing pins so it's safe to store this way.

The gun is light and handy and I like it for woods walking. I don't hunt ducks with it, got 12s for that, but I shot a few off the tank this past season on my walk abouts. Also shot a nice 8 point with 3 buck. I clamp the green light on it for night time critters that might come raiding my chickens. It doesn't exactly fit the gun, but clamps on and stays.

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I have several of the clamp on for lights, and never even tried it on the SxS. Will be trying it next, my home shotgun is a Mossberg 500e, 20GA with door breacher barrel. I added a green laser that has a center dot and 8 to show the shot pattern, the further back you are the more it spreads. The light I put on it has 4 setting 1-light, 2 light with red laser, 3 red laser 4 strobe light I pointed the strobe in a mirror and it does it's intended job makes you turn head real quick
 
For those that have the 20Ga Coach version. You may be surprised to find out how well they generally shoot the cheap Win and Rem Foster style slugs. I have owned five (still own four) and all of those will keep right and lefts in a four inch circle at 50yds with imp/cyl chokes. A friend of mine has two and both of them will do the same. Don't bother trying with 12Ga won't work.
Carlsons sells the true choke for this gun pretty reasonable.
 
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loose noose Please explain the "Remington" after the Baikal, I think I missed something in the interpretation.

Bailkal made them for Remington i think they were called spartan
 
For those that have the 20Ga Coach version. You may be surprised to find out how well they generally shoot the cheap Win and Rem Foster style slugs.
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Yup, mine shoots slugs quite well to 50 yards. However, when I'm walking the woods, I'd rather carry with 3 buck in one barrel. Reason is if I have to take a quick shot at a squirrel in a tree or something flying, I don't wanna mess up and shoot up in the air with a slug should I screw up and go for the wrong barrel in the heat of the moment. 3 buck I worry less about and it seems to do the job, at least on deer, if you center his head iin the pattern. :D
 
Oh, you'll notice in that picture, there's a bit of yellow plastic where wood meets metal on the butt stock/action interface on the right side. That moved the stock to neutral cast and lowered the comb for a little more drop. That really helped me as I shoot lefty and it had a bit of right hand cast in it which it no longer has. Fortunately the stock isn't tightly fitted which allowed that little bit of adjustment.

My old F. Sarasqueta 12 gauge is pretty neutral, but I sure wish I could lower the comb a bit. Thing doesn't quite have enough drop, but the fit of the butt stock is too tight to allow for shimming. I don't shoot the ol' gun much anymore, especially with heavy loads. It pounds the heck out of my cheek bone with heavy loads, but cheap dove loads are easy on me. The Spartan, heck, I can shoot 3" heavy loads in it and it's easier on me than the Sarasqueta with high brass field loads. You do NOT wanna fire a foster slug in that old Sarasqueta. It's very accurate with 'em, but feels like torching off a 600 nitro express in a 7 lb gun.
 
but feels like torching off a 600 nitro express in a 7 lb gun.
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In my youth the harder a gun kicked the better I like it, used an old single shot 12ga on Sunday morning as a way to do away with work stress. Now at 66 a .410 can ring my bell at times, then I found a Limb Saver at Wally World. It adds about 1 inc in length and for my long arms it really help in that dept but it will really tame down a hard hitter. But things like that is why I only have one 12ga and 20ga for all but one. I do have a New Haven .410 ga bolt that is ugly as sin, has problems loading the on board mag but just love to shoot it. This is why I was so glad that this 20ga SxS was hiding in the cabinet it like having a new gun, maybe I better go look again never know what might be lurking in the shadows.
 
In my youth the harder a gun kicked the better I like it, used an old single shot 12ga on Sunday morning as a way to do away with work stress. Now at 66 a .410 can ring my bell at times, then I found a Limb Saver at Wally World. It adds about 1 inc in length and for my long arms it really help in that dept but it will really tame down a hard hitter.
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Oh, I have a slip on limb saver on the Sarasqueta, but that doesn't help my cheek bone. Only more drop in the stock could do that. This is the thing I don't like about doubles, can't really get much if any adjustment in the stock and being a lefty, often they'll have a right hand cast. Just got to try 'em and see. If i get another double, it'll probably be an O/U. More O/Us are neutral cast which helps. If I ever get an O/U, FIT will be number one determiner of whether I spend my cash on it.

Repeaters can usually be easily shimmed. This is one of their most enduring features to me. Now, some would bash the fact that the Spartan/Baikal's wood fit is so sloppy, but I find it a benefit. :D
 
I knew that this gun was made in Russia, but thought it would be built to a higher standard for Remington. Only issue I have with this one is it is still stiff and can be, take a little more effort to break it open and it does not have ejectors. But overall if I found another one like it I would defiantly buy it.
 
. Only issue I have with this one is it is still stiff and can be, take a little more effort to break it open and it does not have ejectors.

you can smooth it out by polishing the action and the chambers
 
It will smooth itself out in a dove season, mine did. :D It does have one feature some don't like, I've learned to work with. When you open the action all the way, it will tend to close back a bit. Hold the break lever over with your thumb and it'll say in place to load. I'm so used to it now, it's reflex for me. There is a fix I've heard cowboy action shooters talk about to fix it, sounded pretty simple, but I'll keep mine the way it is. I load it fast enough.

The guns are very well made, but not fitted wood to metal such that it might be pleasing to the eye. LOL. But, functionally, these are RUGGED shotguns. Mine was $300 well spent. It turned out to be my favorite dove gun, home defense gun, woods walk about gun. Only thing I DON'T use it for is waterfowl.
 
MCGUNNER, Mine also has the tendency to close back after opening the action. Just thought it was the way of the beast and learned to work around it. Might just sit down in front of the TV and start polishing after all time is one thing I have plenty of.
 
Got the close back.........

..........thing going here with mine. I have the hammered version in the 12g flavor. Had my gunsmith put on a Limbsaver and sling swivels for woods carry. The Baikal coach guns are real multi-purpose rigs because of the changeable chokes. I've even done some informal clay busting with mine. Thanks to McGunners influence years ago, I've been totin' a slug and buck combo out in the woods in Tioga for years. And with a butt sleeve with other types of shells, the sky's the limit to what you need quick.

One thing I want to have changed yet is the safety. I want it to be truly selective. No automatic crap. I know some CAS guys. They might be able to direct me to someone who does the job reasonable.
 
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