Author Topic: EAA single shot rifles, thoughts (Read 1909 times)

willysjeep134 · « **on:** March 16, 2005, 08:48:51 AM »

I just saw some single shot rifles made by the same people who import Saiga rifles into the US. They make both single barreled and double barreled rifles in 45-70, .223, .270, and a few others. The single shot rifles are around $160. Much cheaper than even the rossi single shots.

http://www.thegunsource.com/shopping_viewproduct.aspx?idproduct=33292

Has anybody ever seen or shot one of these. What do you all think of them. I think they look a lot more graceful and trim than Rossi or NEF rifles. I really like the looks of them. I am thinking of purchasin one in a few months maybe.

quickdtoo · « **Reply #1 on:** March 16, 2005, 09:07:15 AM »

If they are anything like the single shot Spartan shotguns from EAA Baikal, they aren't gonna find a home in my collection. I'm surprised that Remington even wants their names on those. The over/under Spartan shotguns are real nice and I hope the double rifles are as good as they look and feel. From what I've read, EAA won't be importing any offerings that Remington is bringing in to the country in the Spartan line, in fact last time I looked, they dropped those from the EAA web site.

http://www.spartangunworks.com/

http://www.eaacorp.com/firearms/index.shtml

armory414 · « **Reply #2 on:** March 19, 2005, 05:56:14 PM »

Gee--doesn't look like EAA has many models left to sell after Remington got a hold of the rights to sell Baikal guns. What do you want to bet that if EAA goes out of business Remington will drop Spartan like a hot rock?

Joel · « **Reply #3 on:** March 21, 2005, 10:55:22 AM »

Looks like Remington is trying to do a Marlin/H&R kind of thing here. Most of Spartan's stuff is butt ugly to me(except the double rifle), but the ideas are good. Now that Savage has priced the rifle/shotgun way high, the spartan's might fill the bill there. That so called "fluted" barrel of their is just the results of hammer forging the rifling. All hammer forged barrels look like that, but most manufacturers polish it off. Looks really weird in real life. Had a friend who briefly owned a Mannlicher rifle with a barrel like that, and it had this way of reflecting light that wan't good. The rifle was Mannlicher's attempt to build a cheapie, and was a total failure, far as I know. I"ll stick to my Ruger/NEf's/old Savage 24's...for now anyway.

Brithunter · « **Reply #4 on:** March 28, 2005, 10:55:35 PM »

Hi All,

I traded into a Baikal Single shot rifle in .222 rem on Sunday at the Bisley show, found some S/H steel Hilver high 1" scope rings and brought it home and fitted up a 6x40 scope I had laying around. When I got it home I took it right apart and polished the hammer contact surfaces and the sear notch and sear which smoothed up the graunchy pull, it was still to heavy though. Monday took it over the wood to try out using two different factory rounds, Federal 55 Grn BT FMJ and Sako Gamehead 55 Grn here is the results for about 70 paces :-

this was the first target including the two sighting in shots, the following 3 shot group is circled and was using the Federal load

this is the Sako Load

and the rifle fitted with the scope.

Yesterday I took another look at it and again stoned the notch and sear and this time I removed about 0.020" off the width of the trigger/sear spring and then as it's a flat spring put a slight set into it to reduce the trigger pull which is now about half what it was but it stil has soem creep which I need to look at how to remove. Now I need to get out to try it again.

I am at present re-modeling the wood to make it more pleasing to the hand and eye, once I have finished I will post and after photo. What I do not understand is why Baikal would not finish the trigger off properly like they do on their double shotguns :roll: I have a O/U of theirs which has good triggers.