Need Help, Unknown Shotgun

[Cacster]

Hey everyone,
I have this SHOTGUN I inherited after my dad passed. I know it shoots 12g and i have been using 2-3/4" which works. but I have no idea what brand or model it is anybody ever seen it before??
I Have taken it apart and there is no manufacturer name or marking other than near the trigger it says something 12 and then made in the USSR.
I would really appreciate anything anybody may know about it
Thanks!!

 

[brybenn]

Baikal. Most likely a model 27

 

[red_bailey]

The engraving says Mod. IZh-12, which makes it a Baikal Model 12 made in Izhevsk state arms factory, USSR. (Sometimes it will be written in English as IJ-12.)

This should be from around 1970, the predecessor to the Model 27 line of O/U shotguns which they've been selling close to 40 years now. Feature set will be ordinary: Full over Mod, double triggers, extractors. 70mm chambers, not steel safe.

It is nicely engraved for a Mod. 12; I'm sure you can Google much plainer examples. Perhaps it's a trap grade or something, though the glossy wood could just be a re-finish job. Just to note that it might have other chokes than F/M.

Opinions on Baikal O/Us are not favourable, particularly in the early going. You might hear phrases such as in-elegant, heavy, not well finished, and not up to the task of heavy use. The ones they've made recently I think are very good, and are great value for money. Hard to shake the reputation of clunky products made behind the Iron Curtain by un-skilled labour, which has always been attached to Russian goods in North America. Their SxS guns of the period (and those of the other big Soviet arsenal at Tula ‘TOZ’) do enjoy some grudging respect as workhorse hunters.

They've never been expensive guns, if you're looking for a value.

 

[gunsaholic]

True, most Baikals are not expensive guns but, quality wise, I would take a USSR branded gun made for North American export over any of the later guns that are branded Made In Russia.

 

[Cacster]

The engraving says Mod. IZh-12, which makes it a Baikal Model 12 made in Izhevsk state arms factory, USSR. (Sometimes it will be written in English as IJ-12.)

This should be from around 1970, the predecessor to the Model 27 line of O/U shotguns which they've been selling close to 40 years now. Feature set will be ordinary: Full over Mod, double triggers, extractors. 70mm chambers, not steel safe.

It is nicely engraved for a Mod. 12; I'm sure you can Google much plainer examples. Perhaps it's a trap grade or something, though the glossy wood could just be a re-finish job. Just to note that it might have other chokes than F/M.

Opinions on Baikal O/Us are not favourable, particularly in the early going. You might hear phrases such as in-elegant, heavy, not well finished, and not up to the task of heavy use. The ones they've made recently I think are very good, and are great value for money. Hard to shake the reputation of clunky products made behind the Iron Curtain by un-skilled labour, which has always been attached to Russian goods in North America. Their SxS guns of the period (and those of the other big Soviet arsenal at Tula ‘TOZ’) do enjoy some grudging respect as workhorse hunters.

They've never been expensive guns, if you're looking for a value.

Thank you for the info.