Thankfully Baikal moved on and developed a reputation for good quality, competitively priced guns. It was what we used to call a ‘tractor gun’, and back then a Baikal was for someone who simply couldn’t afford anything else. We never tired of the joke ‘How do you double the value of Andy’s Baikal? Put a cartridge in it’. As for the balance, well, we only half-meant it when we suggested that you were better off holding the gun by the barrel and trying to club a bird out of the air with it. It was a horrible thing with poorly applied blueing, a built-in rust problem, while the stock (which had been smothered in a thick, sticky varnish of some kind) was cracked. Our guns were an eclectic assortment: Mike had a new over-and-under that we all secretly coveted I used the old family 20-bore and Andy had a single-barrelled Baikal. Want to buy a single issue of Shooting Times, Sporting Gun or Airgun Shooter?īack in the mid-1970s a group of us regularly used to get together to try for a rabbit or pigeon on a Saturday morning before going on to our pocket-money jobs.Choosing the right bullets for deer stalking.British deer: A guide to identifying the six species found here and where to stalk them.Country hotels offering shooting facilities.How to choose the right cartridge for your shotgun.How to choose the perfect airgun pellets for your rifle.Issues with eye dominance when shooting: how to deal with them.Shotgun certificate – how to get one and how to renew one.How to get a firearm certificate in the UK.Sign up to the Shooting Times newsletter.
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