i just like experimenting with these sorts of things.......the actual use is mostly for opportunistic hunting and plinking and playing. the 20/30-30 has reasonable barrel alignment as does the 20/357. for those two i subsequently located and fitted each with an extra set of 410 over/under barrels. each of those two has a soft case that holds the whole rig, which can be thrown in the vehicle for camping trips etc potentially these are pretty versatile rigs that could cover a lot of situations.
the baikal OU guns are well made and the rifle barrels are quite accurate. i have them in 12/223, 12x 6.5x55, 12 x 7.62x39, and 12 x 30-06. i also had one in 12/308 and it worked very well but the others covered all my [imaginary] needs anyway. they also make it in 12/9.3x74R but i have never seen one. all of these come with screw in choke tubes.
Baikal makes a nifty little 22/410 also with adjustable barrel and dovetail scope mounts.it was imported by remington for a while it weighs around 5 lbs at most and is really deadly on small game.
in reality i probably dont actually need any of these....but thats true of a lot or even most of my stuff !
Last edited by cable; 01/29/24 09:06 PM.
