After removing the pins from the barrel collar and applying the BFW to twist the barrels into vertical alignment I used a .012 feeler gauge shim to push the right barrel a little farther up and in. (The barrel regulating screw pushes the barrels apart or lets the "spring" in the right barrel bring them together. When totally relaxed the right barrel still had a gap between it and the inner side of the collar.) Now the last step will be to trim off the ends of the shim and flow a little solder into the gap between the barrel and the collar to keep everything in place.
The photo is of a cut and paste composite group at 50 meters. I used a separate target for each barrel and then cut out the right target and glued the group onto the target I used for the left barrel. Other than moving the sight (a Bushnell First Strike red dot) to the right I think this thing will kill a hog. The load is a 405gr Lazercast over 25gr of SR 4759 for right at 1,200 fps.

Okay, the photobucket image isn't showing up on the first post. Here is is. http://s1129.photobucket.com/u...ia/IMG_1518.jpg.html

Picked one up in .30-06. Hoping to shoot it this week. Also hope mine will shoot as well as yours.

My 30-06 Baikal shot fine right out of the box. Mounted a light weight scope on it and it keeps 4 rounds in about a 2 inch box at 50 meters.

Mounted a Ultradot on my 30-06 and it would put 2 shots from each barrel into a 1.25 inch group at 50 yards shooting Hornady 220's.
Tried switching out the Ultradot for a Nikon 1x4 African and accuracy and regulation went to crap, go figure.

My Baikal 06 shoots into one inch at 50 yards with a Leupold 1-4. As for soldering the front band on, you will need to remove it and remove the bluing from the barrel and inside the band before it it will stick, assuming there is blue in there. My 06 has no room for a shim at all and if it did, I would fill it up. Looks like yours is working well. I have owned at least a dozen double rifles and none of them will shoot as well as my Baikal. And they all cost at least ten times more too. Makes no sense, does it?

Makes me want to take the BFW to my Chapuis. The collar on my Baikal won't come off. (I guess the old saying about anything being take-apart-able could apply.) At least not with the amount of force I am willing to use on it which was a bunch. I think I am going to flood it out with acetone and then just flow the solder into the gap. I'll leave the shim in and just use the solder to fill the space knowing it won't really be chemically bonded. It should keep the shim from moving.

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Originally posted by drhall762:
Picked one up in .30-06. Hoping to shoot it this week. Also hope mine will shoot as well as yours.

If you plan on putting a scope on it you will need either a mount made for an airgun style rail or an adapter to use a Weaver type mount. UTG makes a clever little adapter that fits inside the Weaver style clamp and grabs the rail.
This one appears to be the Cadillac. http://www.ebay.com/itm/150984...id=p3984.m1423.l2649

The rings made by Hawke for a dovetail mount look like they would work as well.

I used an old set of Kimber rings; fit right on.

Mine in 30-06 is a serious shooter with factory remington cor-lokt 180's. At $600 out the door it was a steal!

I'm still working on my 45/70 Baikal. I picked it up used from GunBroker. Whoever used it before didn't know what they were doing. It was way out of regulation for Rem 300 or 350 gr cartridges. I was able to move the knurled nut to a point where my handloads are working. My trip next week may confirm it or not.

My .45-70 had to have the bfw and the shim treatment. Now it shoots quite well with both the Hornady 325gr bullets and a 400gr cast bullet (do have to move the adjustment going back and forth for the different loads).