Baikal IZH 18 impulse buy

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Long story short: I had the chance to buy an H&R single shot in 223, didn’t and regretted it.
Now there’s a baikal available to me and I’m curious on availability and going rate for these.
I’ll take any street price, info, opinion or review you guys have.
 
Had one in .223 for a truck gun. Shot well to the iron sights, scoping required the European chin weld. Trigger on mine was not too bad, and I usually have work done or swap out factory triggers. Shot a lot of surplus and never failed to go bang.
 
Probably $300-350, triggers are a bit on the stiff side. You could mount a scope on it but why bother they come with iron sights...
 
Andy said:
For $400, unless you must have a single shot, I'd buy a Rem 783 in 223 over it any day.
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From a purely practical standpoint, that makes sense...but then you'd have just another run-of-the-mill plastic-stocked budget bolt rifle. A great move if you don't already have a stable of practical hunting rifles, but the Baikal is quirky and cool in its own way. It has a nicely polished and blued barrel that displays the spiral hammer-forging marks that Steyr-Mannlichers once did, it breaks down into a couple short little pieces like a shotgun which makes it a great travelling or truck gun, and the one I owned was quite accurate. It's very distinctive. And, as stated earlier in the thread...it can always be sold if you change your mind. Definitely worth a try.
 
I have had good luck with mine. Bought it NIB for 200$ + shipping. About 5yrs ago. It's a .223 and I found the cheap Leupold split .22 rings holds a Banner 1.5-4.5x very well. Pretty accurate with my hand loads. You should buy it
 
By the way, OP...when you have a chance to buy a gun, but instead go home to mull it over and do internet research, including posting a question on CGN...well, that's the intelligent and reasonable thing to do...but it is, literally by definition, no longer an "impulse buy". :)
 
I have one. Bought it a number of years ago for $199.00 Not often you can get a centrefire rifle for under $200.00 Mine has a scope on it and puts the bullets where I aim. Great gun, I have a bunch of Baikals, you can't beat them. Built like tanks.
 
I have one in 7.62x39, no scope. Well, I have a cheap Tasco Red Dot on it. Fun to shoot surplus out of. Stiff action, though. Definitely not for a skinny kid. I think mine came from Epps, some years ago.
 
jjohnwm said:
By the way, OP...when you have a chance to buy a gun, but instead go home to mull it over and do internet research, including posting a question on CGN...well, that's the intelligent and reasonable thing to do...but it is, literally by definition, no longer an "impulse buy". :)
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I liked this response lol
I’m going to go back after christmass and it’s still there and hes willing to throw in a set of used 223 dies I’ll take it
 
kjohn said:
I have one in 7.62x39, no scope. Well, I have a cheap Tasco Red Dot on it. Fun to shoot surplus out of. Stiff action, though. Definitely not for a skinny kid. I think mine came from Epps, some years ago.
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I've been looking for one of these for a while , it just seems practical in 7.62x39 and , just Russian . One will turn up eventually .
 
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