baikal mp 651k review

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Average Ratings

Value for Money	7.8/10
Reviewer Rating	7.4/10
Overall Rating	7.8/10

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By danflex on 4th Mar 2008

danflex's Ratings

Value for money	10/10
Overall value	10/10
danflex's recommendation

Good Points

Well built of quality design and components.
Heavy (a good thing for pistols)
Attachments allow the configuration of four different guns. Fun!
Modifiable and a competent owners manual complete with rebuild instructions.

Bad Points

Availability of pellet cartridges.
Finding a good source of info to modify the gun.
First impression of toy-like attachments.

General Comments

651K, Although I'd been looking at it for a while and it was on my list pending more investigation. I finally bought this gun on a whim because it was on a half price sale at a website here in the US.
When it arrived I was immediately impressed with the gun but not so with its attachments. The gun is robust and in contrast the attachments rather toy-like.
However when assembled in any of the four configurations I began to adore it's schizophrenic appearance. Morph ability!
Then I shot it!
Dam if it didn't feel powerful.
Much more-so than the advertised 230 fps I've seen on retailers websites here in the US! A trip to Baikal's Russian website shows their spec as 120 m/s which translates to over 390 fps.
I had to throw some lightweight pellets into it and pass them over the chrony. My results backed up what I felt. First shot was 420 FPS and the five after that were all in excess of 400 fps proving it was not a fluke.
I've since found the near 6" barrel to allow me tight ten yard groups and furthermore, plinking is a breeze and a ball.
As someone else posted here Modding it to over 500fps doesn't seem out of the question. It's finding instruction online that seems hard.
As for attempting to disassemble the gun. The typical Russian Owners manual that it comes with has the usual instructions to disassemble and reassemble along with parts diagrams and their locations..
If you are a tinkerer like myself you will love this gun.
If not there is still a lot of reason to like it a lot.

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