I was psyched up to buy a Baikal a few years back when Remington first started marketing them as "Spartan" guns. I was at the S.H.O.T. (Shooting , Hunting, and Outdoor Trade Show) in Las Vegas, Nevada and got to handle one... I decided that for half the money, I'd take it. Otherwise I'd pass; it felt a little "tinny" to me.
As an aside: I worked along side a gunsmith many years back who would reline heavy, cross-bolt locking Spanish double barrel shotguns to make double guns. He turned the liners eccentrically and would insert them temporarily into the barrels using a set screw to hold the barrel liner in place for test firing. He would regulate the barrels by rotating the liner inside the barrel and then setting the screw. Because the liners were turned on a tapered eccentric, rotating the liner would alter left and right, as well as up and down, point of impact. When the bullets printed to the desired point of impact he marked the liners position and used fiber-glass to epoxy the liners into place. It was an ingenious system but he would only build them in low pressure express cartridges like 45-70, 45-90, or 45-120. The people he built them for were very pleased with the results.
Ok. That was a digression.....~Muir