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The " IZH 46M Match pistol by IZH-Baikal" appears to be back in stock at Pyramidair again. Good bargain I think, if you take care of the seals...

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they are also back in stock at pilkguns, but we are filling backorders first.

How much maintenance do these take?
We are thinking about some for our club.

JamesH wrote:How much maintenance do these take?
We are thinking about some for our club.

Minimal. After a tin or two of pellets I lube the linkage joints and put two drops of oil onto the piston seal. That's all I've done in four years and ~ 10K pellets.

JamesH wrote:How much maintenance do these take?
We are thinking about some for our club.

I do less...

every tin or two I pull a wet patch through the barrel (TSI301), followed with a couple dry. Once a year I put a couple drops of oil down into the piston seal area. Mine is still as accurate as when new (I'm guessing, I've come a long way), is ~6 years old and has 13~14k pellets through it. Still on all of the original seals too.

I DID have a screw strip on the linkage, replacement parts (here in the US) cost $40 and took a week to arrive. They weren't necessary to replace for the proper function of the pistol, but I like maintaining my equipment.

Th 4 others I know of locally (2 private owner, 2 club) have about the same, or less, done for them. The worst complaint is that the sear on some have a gritty feel. Stoning cured one and made a Very smooth trigger.

Cheers,

Brian

Our club bought six of them from Scott and they've not had any maintainance, and they still outshoot us. The only problem I've had is that the connecting bar that pops open the breech when the charging arm is fully extended keeps falling off the pistol. And when you're saving a thousand euro or more on the cost of the pistol, I'll take a small hassle like that in my stride any day of the week :-)

pilkguns wrote:they are also back in stock at pilkguns, but we are filling backorders first.

Can you email me your price - not on the web site.
Bob Jarrard
bobjarrard@gmail.com

This thread is more than a year old. We no longer sell the IZH precisely because of the problems this thread overlies, the extremely erratic importation of the IZH 46 which consquently makes sales of a inexpensive gun (but very good gun) not profitable.