What do you call two drain pipes lashed to a plank? A Baikal of course! Or the old perennial - how do you double the value of a Baikal? Drop two cartridges in it…Įven today, you still get guffaws of laughter when you tell people down the club what make of shotgun you’re using. Likewise, the name was the butt of every shooting joke going and I should know, since I’ve heard them all. Baikal is a make that seems to have been around since time immemorial when I was shooting with my grandfather, where he and his friends carried various examples of the genuine ‘London Best’, every farmer and lad wielded Russia’s finest.
