Thread: Baikal single shot rebarrel - Anyone done this?

Originally Posted by SixtyTen

So it turns out the barrels are soldered in. I was trying to heat up the barrel shank to break the threads/press fit free and noticed the smell of solder flux and then with a bit more heat, had little balls of solder appearing in the back join. So I kept heating it up and tapping with a wooden mallet and eventually it slid off nice and easy. I had to remove the sling mount (which was also soldered) to get the barrel adapter off.

[COLOR=#222222][FONT=Verdana]Its all low temp solder, maybe very low silver solder.

Wow! So contour the chamber area of the other barrel, cut the extractor and head space.

A simple but quite clever attachment method.

I have a Baikal under over rifle, wounder if it's done the same way?