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Baikal is a brand developed by Izhevsk Mechanical Plant around which a series of shotgun products were designed from 1962. After the collapse of the USSR, commercial gun manufacture was greatly expanded under the Baikal brand. During the 1990s, Baikal marketed various Makarov-derived handguns in the United States under the IJ-70 model.
box magazine) Bizon-3 (improved variant) helical magazine Russia SR-2 Veresk: 9×21mm Gyurza: 1999–present SR-2M Russia Vityaz-SN [5] closed bolt blowback operated Kalashnikov variant 9×19mm Parabellum: 1990s–present standard SMG for all branches of Russian military and police forces [6] Vityaz-SN Russia PP-2000: 9×19mm Parabellum: 2008 ...
IZh-58 was designed by L. I. Pugachev (Л. И. Пугачев), in last months of 1958 first shotguns were made. [1] Since 1961, a new varnish with improved characteristics has been used to protect the wooden parts of the gun. [4] As a result, since January 1961, the price of one standard IZh-58 was 60 roubles. [5]
In 2008, Izhmekh made 9mm pistols (MP-443 Grach and MP-446 Viking), gas pistols, signal pistols, rifles and several models of smoothbore hunting shotguns. [7] In 2010, Izhmekh began production of MP-353 pistols. On August 13, 2013, Izhmash and Izhevsk Mechanical Plant were merged and formally renamed Kalashnikov Concern. [8]
The standard magazine capacity is 17 rounds, fed from a double-column, two position feed magazine. Magazines with an 18-round capacity were produced after 2004. Even though the grips of the pistol are polymer , the weapon is largely made of metal ( stainless steel for the barrel, carbon steel for the frame and slide).
IZh-27 was designed in early 1970s as a successor to the IZh-12. [3] The first standard serial shotguns were made in 1972 [4] and mass production began since 1973 [7]. In 1985, IZh-27 and TOZ-34 were the most common hunting shotguns in the Soviet Union. [8]
The Baikal factory have now also released "The Blackbird" a version of the Drozd equipped with a bulk feed and a 400-round magazine, which remedies the achilles heel of the original Bumblebee: the tiny 30-round magazine capacity (which can be emptied in one and a half seconds on a 1,200 rpm modified gun).
The barrel of PM have 4 grooves and IJ-70 have six, and different rate of twist. It leads to impossibility to use harmlessly the military ammo in IJ-70. The military bullets have steel core, and "commercial" 9x18 ammo have lead one, so using military rounds in IJ-70 can severly damage the barrel.