Showing posts with label Baikal MP-654K. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Baikal MP-654K. Show all posts

Tuesday, June 9, 2015

Baikal BB Pistol

From my hoard of useful (or useless) and/or obsolete things, aka Gadgets, comes this Baikal BB Pistol.


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.