Hahaha I had a couple Baikal DRs. I thought of them as the AK of DRs. If the weather was shitty and insisted on hunting with a DR, then the Baikals were the spot on choice. Or perhaps like riding a scooter, fun but you dont want your buddies watching.

The Baikals were the poor mans way into the DR world. Some might argue that DRs arent supposed to be cheap precisely for that reason, to set serious DR users apart from the plastic rifle crowd--IDK. The Baikals got me moving on buying Merkels and K-guns and and and. We can laugh But I for one am sorry the Baikals (Remingtons etal) disappeared.

Lets agree that you could do worse than a Baikal 45-70 for N America