Shooting Baikal's .30-06 double rifle

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Very cool. I have one of their over/under combos in 12-gauge/.308. I've fielded it once so far (didn't bag anything) but it carries pretty well.

Using the stock sights (which I'm not super happy with) it puts both .308 bullets and slugs in a deer kill zone sized target at 50 yards. I want to look into some kind of peep sight for it.
 
Don't mean to criticize -- it's a cool gun -- but for use on dangerous game, like bears, a double rifle needs ejectors, not extractors. If you need a third shot, you need those empty cases out of there like now.
 
Vern Humphrey said:
Don't mean to criticize -- it's a cool gun -- but for use on dangerous game, like bears, a double rifle needs ejectors, not extractors. If you need a third shot, you need those empty cases out of there like now.
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Some of the most respected dangerous game hunters now and in the past don't agree with you. Many of the "best" DR's were and are built as "extractor" guns.

Anyway, i also have a Rusky (Baikal) DR, how do you like those lovely triggers?? I think Fred Flintstone did the triggers on them!! lol

They are decent for what a S&S DR cost, but a hundred miles away from Chapuis quality, and Chapuis is where the REAL DR's start, and they start at about $4.5K

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1. Next time record the discussion at home where it's quiet then head to the range for shooting demonstration.

2. Glad I wasn't holding the camera when you took aim at it right through the lens. Maybe clearing the rifle first to show it was safe?

3. Um... You loaded it, held it up to the camera to show the safety was NOT engaged, and then waved it around while talking to the camera, fiddling with the camera, etc. Really glad I wasn't standing nearby while you were covering everything and everyone at the range with the muzzle (muzzles?).
 
If that was a live cameraman, he was both the steadiest, and worst of all time. Pretty sure that the camera was on a tripod.

Safety was on, not off. Regardless, all guns are considered loaded, and therefore never "safe," no?
 
I thought he specifically held the rifle up to the camera and said the safety was in the off position. Maybe I misunderstood. He was still swinging the muzzle of a loaded rifle around as he fiddled with the camera.
 
I'm pretty sure the reason most double guns extract rather than eject is so if you fire one round but not the other, you can reload without the live round also popping out.
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No.
Good quality double rifles or shotguns, unlike the hardware store singles you are apparently acquainted with, have selective ejectors and only kick out the fired round.

John Taylor preferred plain extractors because he thought an elephant could locate the metallic sound of a case being ejected better than the loud blast of a shot.
 
Duelist, are you sure that gun doesn't have selective ejector/extractors.
Every Baikal I have handled has a screw adjustment that allows you to lock the ejectors to function as extractors only.
It is located somewhere on the breech block and is a tiny flush mount turn screw.
 
Jason- Is pointing out safety violations "nasty vibes?"
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i didnt see any of the safety violations you pointed out.

Glad I wasn't holding the camera when you took aim at it right through the lens. Maybe clearing the rifle first to show it was safe?
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unless he had an olympic rifle shooter holding the camera for him, that camera was clearly on a tripod

Um... You loaded it, held it up to the camera to show the safety was NOT engaged, and then waved it around while talking to the camera, fiddling with the camera, etc. Really glad I wasn't standing nearby while you were covering everything and everyone at the range with the muzzle (muzzles?).
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watch the video again, he clearly says the rifle has an auto-safety and that the safety WAS engaged......its no different than what thousands of hunters do every year.
 
Onmilo, It looks like it only has extractors...I just checked the owner's manual to see if I'm missing something, but it only talks about extractors.

Too bad, ejectors would be nice.
 
You can't be showing me things like this when I'm saving for a rifle! It's no H&H...but it doesn't cost ridiculous amounts of money either. Looks very plain, which is nice. Thanks for the video review!
 
Onmilo said:
Duelist, are you sure that gun doesn't have selective ejector/extractors.
Every Baikal I have handled has a screw adjustment that allows you to lock the ejectors to function as extractors only.
It is located somewhere on the breech block and is a tiny flush mount turn screw.
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I own several DR's, and NO the Baikal DR's do NOT have ejectors, slective or otherwise. And yes, one of the DR's i own is a Baikal...

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Is this rifle even available at this time outside of auctions?
I, also, have a DR in .30-06. It is, however, an O/U. With extractors/ejectors.....only ejects if that barrel has been fired. Regulated for 180s at 2700 fps (at least those are what shoot best).
Pete.
 
My local gunshop can new ones in without any problem at all... It won't say Rem on it though, but it's the exact same gun though.

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EAA advertised the Baikal double rifles for years but hardly ever had any to deliver. Most of the ones I read about actually being shot were actually in Canada where they came in direct from Baikal.
Remington got the US distributorship and did no better. For some reason people were not much interested in buying a Russian product with a Remington label. Me, either.

Now EAA has got them back under the USSG brand and is apparently actually getting them in. If you swing that way, you can have a lot of fun for $1000.
 
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