To give its full official designation, this is a Baikal BB Pistolet Makarov (PM) CO2 Pistol MP-654K cal. 4.5 mm / .177 - year of manufacture 2002.
It uses most parts of the PM, except, of course, one or two critical things that make it essentially an air pistol as opposed to a fire arm.
Some specs on the box... bullet velocity 70...120 m/sec... depends on how full the CO2 cartridge is.
It is just a toy for some target shooting maybe. And it's very different from shooting a real PM, of course.
Unwrapping...
Actually, this type of pistol (but more often other similar but rubber bullet firing Izh pistols) has seen much use in criminal circles. The thing is underground weapon shops can re-convert them back to fire live 9 mm bullets. The resulting units are not as reliable as properly factory-manufactured pieces and can be fired only a limited number of times before failure but their more slowly flying bullets cause horrible injuries at close quarters which makes them fearsome close combat weapons.
But I am not going into that in any more detail than I already have... let's leave at that.
BB stands for ball bullets, or pellets, 4.5 mm / .177 in diameter.
Here it is!
So, it's basically a toy for target practice. I don't see any other use for it.
And I did some target shooting with it, and it's fun, however you do get tired of reloading it and it uses up CO2 cartridges fast.
A nice handy kick-back type of gun in its original PM version.
This unit was manufactured in 2002.
Instead of a proper magazine, you have this CO2 cartridge holder which doubles up as a magazine for BBs, or pellets.
The thing in the center is a little accessory that I bought separately -- it's a plastic dispenser designed to facilitate BB loading (which is otherwise a pain), and it even works most of the time.
You attach it to the magazine and then just push the magazine spring down.
4.5 mm bore.
Safety's off.
Full disassembly in somebody's video.
Comparison
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