Baikal coach gun

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Baikal coach gun

Post by bigpete » 18 Nov 2017, 5:13 pm

Picked up my new Baikal hammer coach gun last week. Gotta say I'm pretty bloody pleased !
Shooting shot, well,its a shotgun. Does it well,even if I don't shoot IT that well.
Came with 3 chokes,full,¾, and improved cylinder I believe. Seems to shoot patterns to match.
Where its amazed me at least is how well it shoots slugs ! I bought some pretty cheap federal powershok rifled slugs to try,10 to be exact,and they were that accurate out of the IC barrel at 40m that I just had to try them at 60m. Bugger me dead if I didn't get a 5 shot 5 inch group ! And right where I was aiming !
Now heaps of people piss and moan about hammers being unsafe coz allegedly they can be cocked by accident. Well, A: it really isn't that easy as the hammer actually has to go below the level of the stock,and B: its got an automatic safety anyway ! So its actually twice as safe as a regular shotgun !
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Post by duncan61 » 18 Nov 2017, 5:30 pm

I have been eyeballing one of those for a while
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Post by marksman » 18 Nov 2017, 5:31 pm

I shot one exactly the same for a bloke a couple of years ago he had a gunsmith put rifle sights on for him and shot slugs out of it, at the time he had hurt his shoulder and wanted to see how it shot at different ranges from 25 to 100, I cant exactly remember the size of the groups but they were very good, I think about 7-8 inches at 100 was max, the wrist of the stock bent a bit as it was shot but no harm, he was using it for sambar, I went home and had a serious look at my cashmore hammer gun thinking of getting the barrels cut down and rifle sights put on, I didn't but only because cash was needed elsewhere
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Post by bigpete » 18 Nov 2017, 6:13 pm

I've got a set of rifle sights to put on it,so funny you should say that. But I also should get some more chokes for it too.
Only thing I don't like about it is the shortness of the barrels,or more precisely, the report from them. Distinctly louder to the ears than longer barrels. Ideally I think 24" barrels would be great !
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Post by marksman » 19 Nov 2017, 8:43 am

you wont hear it when your pulling the trigger on a sambar :thumbsup:
I remember this shotgun did not like sabots but preferred the slugs with the hollow base
this guys idea came from flushing the sambar at very short distances in thick scrub, IMO a great idea
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Post by bigpete » 19 Nov 2017, 10:08 am

Yeah my experience with sambar so far has been pretty close range stuff. And 2 12g slugs rapid fired into ones chest is going to take the wind out of it
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Post by darwindingo » 20 Nov 2017, 2:09 am

bigpete wrote:Yeah my experience with sambar so far has been pretty close range stuff. And 2 12g slugs rapid fired into ones chest is going to take the wind out of it


I would certainly think so,,, :thumbsup:

BTW.. Bloody nice bit of kit mate..I like it.... :mrgreen:

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Post by marksman » 20 Nov 2017, 7:13 am

bigpete wrote:Yeah my experience with sambar so far has been pretty close range stuff. And 2 12g slugs rapid fired into ones chest is going to take the wind out of it


the really good thing about using the 12 gauge slugs is you can eat up to the hole
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Post by Oldbloke » 20 Nov 2017, 8:05 am

darwindingo wrote:
bigpete wrote:Yeah my experience with sambar so far has been pretty close range stuff. And 2 12g slugs rapid fired into ones chest is going to take the wind out of it


I would certainly think so,,, :thumbsup:

BTW.. Bloody nice bit of kit mate..I like it.... :mrgreen:

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I would think 1 would be enough
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