I grabbed the last of the three IZH54 doubles Simpsons Ltd in Illinois listed in their big batch of old Baikals. It's a well-worn, heavily carried example. It's a 12 gauge, 2-3/4 chambers, 28" barrels. Greener-style action. Double triggers. Extractors.
I scrapped off the worst of the crud, wiped down the wood with BLO, slapped some cold blue on the barrels and then sent the pipes off to Mike Orlen and had him open the chokes up a bit (they were full/fuller, now Imp/Mod). It's a nice gun . . . clearly a grade or two above the modern IZH-43 I once owned. I shot a round of skeet with it last night. After a rocky start on station 1, I found my groove with it and was hitting them pretty good. It points really nicely.
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I scrapped off the worst of the crud, wiped down the wood with BLO, slapped some cold blue on the barrels and then sent the pipes off to Mike Orlen and had him open the chokes up a bit (they were full/fuller, now Imp/Mod). It's a nice gun . . . clearly a grade or two above the modern IZH-43 I once owned. I shot a round of skeet with it last night. After a rocky start on station 1, I found my groove with it and was hitting them pretty good. It points really nicely.
Anyway, here's some photos . . .
