Baikal MP-161K
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I have mine and love it. Great shooting rifle. I dont know the price yet cause I am the beta teasterI think this will be a great gopher gun
Thx Hillbilly, I intented to have a great time shooting this baby. Question for you though, did you mount any optics on yours?
Damn, thought I'd got mine first (this morning).
Initial impressions - though some folks have looked at the photos and thought that it might use a 10/22 action, in person it looks quite different (though in operation of course it's quite similar). The rifle breaks down very readily into two pieces with a single takedown screw (barrell/forend/receiver on one piece, trigger group/stock on the other). However, removing the bolt seems to be quite a chore - I still haven't figured out how to get the retaining pin out of the back of the receiver (to remove the back plate and thus the recoil spring/bolt carrier group), and the fairly sparse manual is not much help. If anybody's done that, please tell me what the magic is.
Fit and finish looks pretty good, the rifle is quite light and handles well. The magazines (and the channel into which they insert) are robust steel, with a pulldown button like Ruger 22 target pistols, and this makes loading a breeze. I worked a mag full of dummy rounds through it; the oversize charging handle is a nice touch. The bolt locks back when magazine is empty; a nice feature, but there is no bolt-release catch; once locked back, if you want the bolt to go forward it seems you have to either remove the magazine and pull the charging handle back, or put in a loaded magazine and cycle the bolt.
I've put an inexpensive Bushnell Rimfire 3-9 on it, and I'll be taking it for a shoot next Wednesday with a brick of Stingers. I'll let you all know how it performs compared to the trusty 10/22.
Initial impressions - though some folks have looked at the photos and thought that it might use a 10/22 action, in person it looks quite different (though in operation of course it's quite similar). The rifle breaks down very readily into two pieces with a single takedown screw (barrell/forend/receiver on one piece, trigger group/stock on the other). However, removing the bolt seems to be quite a chore - I still haven't figured out how to get the retaining pin out of the back of the receiver (to remove the back plate and thus the recoil spring/bolt carrier group), and the fairly sparse manual is not much help. If anybody's done that, please tell me what the magic is.
Fit and finish looks pretty good, the rifle is quite light and handles well. The magazines (and the channel into which they insert) are robust steel, with a pulldown button like Ruger 22 target pistols, and this makes loading a breeze. I worked a mag full of dummy rounds through it; the oversize charging handle is a nice touch. The bolt locks back when magazine is empty; a nice feature, but there is no bolt-release catch; once locked back, if you want the bolt to go forward it seems you have to either remove the magazine and pull the charging handle back, or put in a loaded magazine and cycle the bolt.
I've put an inexpensive Bushnell Rimfire 3-9 on it, and I'll be taking it for a shoot next Wednesday with a brick of Stingers. I'll let you all know how it performs compared to the trusty 10/22.
optics
I made a thread about it here. I mounteded a bushnell holosight on it. It shoots very well. I am gonig to try different optics and see what distance I can do. I did find out it does not like flat nosed rounds. Cheers hillbilly
http://www.canadiangunnutz.com/forum/showthread.php?t=353571
I made a thread about it here. I mounteded a bushnell holosight on it. It shoots very well. I am gonig to try different optics and see what distance I can do. I did find out it does not like flat nosed rounds. Cheers hillbilly
http://www.canadiangunnutz.com/forum/showthread.php?t=353571
Took the Baikal out to the range last Wednesday, compared side by side with a 10/22 SS with the same scope. Baikal shot slightly tighter groups, worked reliably. Some FF stoppages using Federal Game Shok (do they work in anything?), but pretty flawless with CCI stingers and Remington Golden Bullets. Both my wife and I loved the ergonomics - this is an easy gun to shoot.
Took mine out to the range yesterday and fired about 500 rounds of Federal through it with only one stoppage and one failure to extract.
The stoppage was caused by a case not being thrown clear (not sure what it hit) and it bounced back into the action before the bolt cycled closed. Had to pull the mag to get it out as it got caught infront of the extractor.
The failure to extract looks like it was caused by a bad round, the round went off but had no felt recoil and a very light sounding pop instead of the usual crack. A quick check of the barrel showed the round had cleared the barrel so no blockage to worry about.
Other than that it run flawlessly and was fairly accurate given I was using the Red Dot that I had originally bought for my 12 Ga.
Broken or bent firing pin maybe? Only tried Federal and some CCI in mine but have had no issues beyond the two ftf I noted in an previous post.
I've only had mine out once, but put a whole brick of cheap Walmart 550- bulk pack through it, and a couple of boxes of other cheap stuff that my 10/22's won't cycle reliably. About 700 rounds in one afternoon. The Baikal never missed a beat.
It is also extremely accurate - while sighting the scope, off the bench at 25 yards - 10 shots in one ragged hole less than the size of a dime!
My only complaint, is that Marlin at Frontier hasn't brought in any extra mags yet. The factory mags only hold 9 and they are a ##### to load (my fingers were raw when I was done). We need longer mags and lots of them. Do you hear me Marlin???
While the Baikal's aren't cheap, from my initial experience, they are worth every penny. Just get those longer mags in please.
JB
It is also extremely accurate - while sighting the scope, off the bench at 25 yards - 10 shots in one ragged hole less than the size of a dime!
My only complaint, is that Marlin at Frontier hasn't brought in any extra mags yet. The factory mags only hold 9 and they are a ##### to load (my fingers were raw when I was done). We need longer mags and lots of them. Do you hear me Marlin???
While the Baikal's aren't cheap, from my initial experience, they are worth every penny. Just get those longer mags in please.
JB
You find the mags hard to load?? Maybe you're trying to push the rounds in one at a time against the spring? All you need to do is hold down the spring knob at the side and drop in the cartridges, just like a Ruger pistol. Couldn't be easier IMHO and can't possibly make your fingers raw.
Having said that, I'm in for a couple of extra mags, and longer ones would be great, but I don't even see these on the market in other countries.
Having said that, I'm in for a couple of extra mags, and longer ones would be great, but I don't even see these on the market in other countries.
huntingfish
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Contacted Baikal Canada they had no extra mags to sell just the 2 that came with mine
Range report with pics to come as it only just arrived .
stripping it is simple remove Mag. undo screw that you can see in the mag well with gun
upside down larger straight slotted screw pull butt stock back and down butt stock and trigger group just come away bolt should be closed when doing this with gun cocked.
Range report with pics to come as it only just arrived .
stripping it is simple remove Mag. undo screw that you can see in the mag well with gun
upside down larger straight slotted screw pull butt stock back and down butt stock and trigger group just come away bolt should be closed when doing this with gun cocked.
