Shotgun Baikal MP 153 Practice 12x76 710mm /Code 2508601

MP-153 - manufacturer Izhevsk plant, a gun with a simple design and low price (on average, about 25 thousand rubles according to the website GunsBroker.Ru). Suitable for beginners and professionals. Most often used for hunting.

Shotgun MP-153

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The history of the creation of the MP-153 shotgun

The task of developing a new universal semi-automatic shotgun was set in 1998. Before that, the Izhevsk plant had been producing the IZH-80 shotgun for more than ten years, which was of high quality and in great demand in the West and the CIS countries.

The gun was produced in several modifications with different barrel lengths and layouts. The new gun was supposed to be similar to the IZH-80, but incorporate the latest scientific developments.

See also the article IZH-27 shotgun and its history

In 1999, the first prototype MP-153 was released.

The characteristics of which satisfied the developers, and the first tests began, as a result of which a decision was made for a complete design rework, after which testing of experimental models continued.

In 2000, the first MP-153 weapon was released, the characteristics of which made it possible to begin mass production. Over all the years of operation, the semi-automatic shotgun has received a lot of positive reviews, one of which is the greater reliability and optimal dimensions of the MP-153.

Application

The MP-153 is a completely universal weapon. Everything is clear about hunting game birds, because semi-automatic guns here are much more effective than double-barreled guns. The engineers of the Izhevsk plant sensed the situation in a timely manner and, as a result, were able to organize the production of “Murok”, intended for practical shooting. This gun, with the appropriate configuration, is also suitable for law enforcement agencies. After all, reliable smooth-bore self-loading weapons in urban conditions are much preferable to army automatic rifles. “Murka” is very compact for transportation, easy to maintain and undemanding in maintenance, but it requires a lot of time to clean the gas exhaust circuit of the automation.

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Performance characteristics of MP-153 (TTX)

MP-153 disassembled
MP-153 is a self-loading automatic rifle with an adjustable piston, which is located under the barrel. The piston is a box with a metal spring. Stable operation of the cartridge feeding and reloading mechanism is ensured by powder gases. The piston is connected to the bolt frame, which provides rigid traction and the bolt of the barrel channel with a swinging wedge.

See also the article Self-loading hunting rifle MTs 21-12 and its description

Piston MP-153

The barrel and chamber of the gun are chrome plated. It provides protection against corrosion. There is also a thread on the barrel for installing additional attachments, which increase the length of the MP-153 gun. There are four types of barrel modifications - 750, 710, 660, 610 mm.

Barrel extension 300 mm

The trigger mechanism has two degrees of protection that block a shot when the barrel channel is open. The first protection is the safety button, which blocks the trigger. The safety button is located at the back of the bracket arm and is adjustable in two directions. The second protection is the firing pin breaker, which is located in the bolt frame cylinder.

MP-153 shotgun with folding stock

The standard MP-153 stock is semi-pistol and is made of plastic or wood. The design of the gun allows for modernization and a gun with a folding stock or pistol grip, which significantly reduces the size of the MP-153. The small dimensions of the MP-153 when folded have become comfortable during transportation and storage of weapons.

The first attempt to develop a gas-operated shotgun semiautomatic device at the Izhevsk Mechanical Plant was made by designer N. Galunov in the early 60s. The sample received the index IZH-21, and at the same time the “pump” being developed was IZH-20.

Unfortunately, no orders were received and development was stopped.

With the beginning of the conversion in the late 80s, a “pump-action” shotgun was developed for special forces, which received the index IZH-80.

It had dual power: to quickly change the type of ammunition, the under-barrel magazine could be turned off, a box magazine was inserted from below, and cartridges were supplied from it.
After disconnecting the box magazine, shooting could continue with the supply of cartridges from the under-barrel magazine.
Due to the lack of orders, it was decided to develop a simplified hunting version under the symbol IZH-81, and it was produced for almost ten years with barrels of various lengths (700, 600 and 560 mm), a box made of high-strength aluminum alloy, a permanent or folding butt, an under-barrel or box magazine, in regular and magnum versions, and even with a pistol grip. Quite a lot of IZH-81s were exported - Algerian orders alone amounted to about 100 thousand guns!

Comparison of samples of shotgun semiautomatic devices.

With the production of the pump-action gun well established, the idea of ​​turning it into a semi-automatic machine was naturally in the air. In 1998, such a task was set before the young designer Konstantin Evseev, and very quickly he designed a new gun, which received the MP-151 index.

When it was almost assembled, a similar sample was brought from Nizhny Novgorod by employee Chigrinsky.

However, long-term testing and the release of a trial batch of MP-151 shotguns showed that designing a semi-automatic requires a different approach. It became clear that the seemingly obvious engine design with manual adjustment of the amount of exhaust gases complicates the operation of the gun and has a bad effect on reliability. One way or another, the MP-151 gun was considered a failure.

When designing a new semi-automatic machine, mistakes, our own and those of others, were taken into account, successful technical solutions already known in the world were widely used, and K.E. Evseev created a new gun called MP-153. A special imprint on the design was left by the fact that at the same time the task was set to optimize the semi-automatic for the American market, so the gas outlet was initially designed for the “supermagnum” cartridge.

The decision turned out to be correct; a heavy semi-automatic machine chambered for a reinforced cartridge is best suited for hunting waterfowl, being a modern “goose gun”. It is the ability to use powerful cartridges along with conventional ones that, in my opinion, is one of the main factors in the success of the MP-153.

The gun turned out to be quite successful, although later, based on the results of its operation, significant modifications had to be made. A great contribution to the mastery of production of the MP-153 and the MP-133 “pump”, which was maximally unified with it, was made by design engineer A.I. Kalugin.

Of course, there are certain controversial elements in the gun; sometimes it seems that it should not work normally at all. But it works. It works without problems with almost all cartridges, I shot it myself, loading 12/70, 12/76, 12/89 mixed. It doesn’t always reload, perhaps, only from a sports cartridge with 24 g of shot, and even from the “Taiga” you come across “weak” batches.

One way or another, it turned out that the people needed just such a gun. It quickly entered the list of “One Hundred Best Products of Russia”, many Russian arms dealers recognized it as a sales leader, and two hunting magazines “Guns & Ammo” and “Sports Afield” named it the gun of 2001 in the USA.

Of course, Browning Gold and Beretta Urica are better finished, but they also cost three to five times more.

Gas unit of the MP-153 shotgun:

1

- nut
2
- spring
3
- sealing ring
4
- thrust bushing
5
- compensator piston
6
- washer
7
- spring washer
8
- rod
9
- sealing piston
10
- piston bushing
11
- spacer bushing

And there are problems with them too, but I haven’t heard of spare parts for them yet. Some things cannot be properly lubricated - you need special tools, but if you don’t clean and lubricate them, the shutter does not move forward (a real-life incident). But this is all true, by the way.

Remembering Kozma Prutkov, I will say: “And there are spots on the Sun,” having stipulated in advance that this is not an attempt to anti-advertise the MP-153. To one degree or another, something similar can be said about every model of any company.

I will not touch on the features inherent in all heavy semi-automatic weapons, since there are many cases when a gun is initially inferior to a double-barreled shotgun: this is hunting in the forest, when an extra hundred grams is a burden, you often need to quietly change the cartridges in the barrels, it is inconvenient to carry a long gun in a case on a train or on a bus, and you don’t have to shoot often. This is also a fast, offhand shooting, almost in a round shooting range.

Conversely, a semi-automatic machine wins when hunting in open spaces, on a flight or from a boat, when you don’t need to carry a gun and a large supply of cartridges, one shot number is used, a large magazine capacity is important, the situation is closer to shooting in a trench. The store is generally much more “gluttonous” and more exciting than the break.

Recently, quite a lot of different references to the MP-153 have appeared in the weapons press. Some praise, some scold: “Everyone has their own shortcomings.” American buyers, for example, consider the absence of a plastic stock and forearm to be one of the major disadvantages of the MP-153 as a gun intended for hunting waterfowl, and Izhmekhzavod has already begun their production. For our hunters this still sounds crazy, although personally I would be glad to have a replacement set made of plastic for my IZH-58MA.

Some surprise was caused by a letter from Tataria published in MasterRuzhye © 68 regarding the MP-153. Everything seems to be correct, but it is very unclear: praise is not praise, and criticism is not criticism. In my opinion, the anti-advertising did not work. I can say one thing: if you don’t like a serial gun, buy an MP-153 gun from Strela or Browning and estimate the price of hand-finishing.

Unfortunately, the rough ventilation grooves of the sighting bar are not the most unpleasant features of the gun. (By the way, MP-153 is bought very well in Tatarstan).

Let me give you a few examples:

1.

I consider the most unpleasant cases of breakages of the receivers of guns of the first releases during shooting due to improper assembly of the bolt, despite separate (it must be said, inconspicuous) instructions in the passport, which in an era of universal literacy almost no one reads.
If the wedge is installed incorrectly in the bolt (locking with a backward bevel), the latter does not lock in the forward position; when fired, it goes back at high speed and breaks the receiver.
To avoid this, the passport included instructions to check the movement of the striker after assembly - if assembly is incorrect, the striker will not return back. In 2001, to eliminate the possibility of incorrect assembly, the design of the shutter was modified, and now error is impossible.

2. In principle, the gun has the ability to adjust the gas outlet.

On guns intended for export to America, there is a corresponding marking on the body of the gas chamber, and the kit includes an adjustment key combined with a key for the choke tubes.
But it’s better not to do this unless absolutely necessary - the gun already works quite reliably with a very wide range of charge power. The only exception is the case of jamming of a piston incorrectly selected on the assembly
(in principle, the parts are completely interchangeable, but defects cannot be completely eliminated), which is checked as follows. On a vertically positioned (barrel down) gun, the piston with the ring, retracted to a distance of no more than 60 mm from the rear end of the rack and released, must, under the influence of its own weight, reach the lowest position. The check must be carried out without moving parts (bolt frame and bolt with piston), pressing the base surface of the chamber nut against the magazine tube in different directions. If there is rubbing of the piston, it is necessary to ensure that the piston enters the chamber freely by slightly turning the nut in one direction or another.

3. The gun is available with chamber lengths of 76 and 89 mm.

Barrel length can be 660 mm (usually in the USA with an 89 mm chamber) and 710 mm.
750 mm long barrels are produced in small batches. I consider a 66-centimeter barrel to be the most convenient, especially if the factory produces an additional nozzle 5-6 cm long with a strong 1.2 mm choke and pre-barrel expansion. The outer diameter of the nozzle is 20.8 mm, which will allow you to screw two nozzles into the IZH-27. The IZH-27 barrel has a diameter in the middle part of 20.4 mm, but the attachment, unlike the barrel, can be made of alloy steel and hardened.
Unfortunately, the two-start inch thread makes it very difficult to make such a nozzle yourself.
I consider the long chamber of 89 mm to be a positive side.
This has virtually no effect on combat with a short cartridge, but in the future it will allow the use of cartridges with steel shot - well, we’re not idiots constantly poisoning our own land with lead.

Mechanism MP-153:

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- bolt
2
- wedge
3
- firing pin
4

5
- sear
6 -

sear
pusher
7
button
9 10

- holder
11
-
delay
12
- interceptor
13
- bolt handle
14 -
magazine cup

I hope we won’t have to wait long for a ban on using lead shot when hunting on water bodies. By the way, the lethality of steel shot at reasonable distances is no worse than lead shot and depends more on the shooter, since it requires other skills.

4.

Some people complain about the edge of the steel (there are simply no brass) cups of the cartridge case sticking into the sharp edge of the chamber flange.
Indeed , the mechanical plant stubbornly does not pay attention to the dulling of sharp edges.
But this is not difficult to eliminate, the main thing is not to overdo it. And when reloading, cartridge cases must be calibrated, even all-metal ones (this was recommended by S.A. Buturlin), but the ring must be selected that is not too strict.
Modern imported cartridges are very weak and are poorly calibrated, but the edge of the cup, which bends outward when fired, must be bent inward, otherwise sticking will occur. By the way, this is especially noticeable not on the MP-153, but on the lower barrel of the IZH-27. Very rare, but also found on the MP-153, is the sharp edge of the case flange sticking into the junction of the magazine tube and the box jumper; a chamfer has to be applied to the edge of the latter.
It must be admitted that Tula semi-automatic devices are more prone to this, especially when using a metal sleeve with a flange that is sharper than that of a plastic sleeve cup or a calibrated imported sleeve in which the flange is flattened.

5.
The MP-153 reloading handle has a fastening design similar to that of the Beretta Urika and is very easy to remove from the bolt.
On guns of the first releases there were cases of its loss. Later this deficiency was eliminated, and such cases stopped.

6.

Owners of not only the MP-153, but many guns in general, complain about the rusting coating of steel parts.
In general, modern alkaline oxidation coating wears off easily but has greater corrosion resistance than the old "rusty varnish", although the latter is second only to chrome plating in terms of abrasion resistance. Therefore, to protect the barrels from rust, it is necessary to use a thicker mineral oil than conventional RJ containing kerosene.
It is not without reason that almost all the trunk coating processes described by S.A. Buturlin in the book “Shotguns and Shooting from It,” 1937 edition, end by lubricating the coating with hot drying oil. At least once a season, especially for those who hunt near water, to impart moisture resistance, it is necessary to lubricate wooden parts with drying oil (of course, if they are not varnished). After several hours of exposure, the drying oil should be wiped with a rag.

7.

Like the bore and other parts that work with powder gases, the magazine tube must be regularly cleaned and lubricated - despite the chrome coating, powder gases can burn through it quite quickly.
By the way, on the gas pistons of many guns of the first releases, there are through holes from milling in the corners of the grooves for placing thrust. This was allowed in the design documentation and is not a defect, although it does make cleaning somewhat more difficult after firing.

8. Like many other automatic systems, some samples of the MP-153 may malfunction when firing without pressing the butt to the shoulder.

In principle, you can put a pistol grip from the MP-133 “pump” on a gun, but after that you need to check its functionality.
Before removing and installing the MP-153 stock, in order to avoid its breakage, it is necessary to remove the base of the trigger mechanism by knocking out the pins securing it. On IZH-81, a drift for knocking them out was placed on the magazine nut. It is not provided in the MP-153 kit.
9.

The magazine design allows the use of extension cords.
The conventional extension nut allows for more capacity per round due to a longer spring, and is typically factory installed on 89mm chambered shotguns shipped to the United States. For ease of handling of a disassembled gun (without a barrel), a special plastic plug is placed under the magazine nut, which must be removed before hunting to increase the magazine capacity, although this will complicate disassembly and reassembly (the spring is longer than the magazine).
A design for an extension for two cartridges has also been developed, which does not require the installation of an extended spring, but it is not yet in production.
Of course, increasing capacity is not necessary for all hunters. It remains to add that a semi-automatic machine requires a careful study of the material part. When shooting, you need to use better quality cartridges and be more attentive to the gun, since it is more difficult to determine the power of cartridges when shooting from it than when shooting.
In general, gun store sellers in Izhevsk do not praise the MP-153.

Anyone who understands praises the TOZ-87: the ingenious design of the automatics by N. Babanin, especially the locking of the bolt from untimely locking (I write this without a drop of humor), the lightest semi-automatic shotgun, and the barrel with the box is tightly connected, there are long nozzles “paradox” and “ supergoose." The MTs-21-12 is praised: a long-established and classic design with a long barrel stroke, soft recoil and an adjustable recoil system; Both attachments and spare parts are available for sale. The Bekas-Auto is also a good car and looks good, and even a child can shoot with pleasure from the Saiga-410. The Saiga-12 magazine can be easily removed and replaced if necessary. In general, “Saiga-12”, “Magnum” with a long thick barrel, a screwed-on long muzzle attachment, a huge 8-round box magazine, and an easily removable (replaceable with a handle) semi-pistol birch butt leaves a strong impression.

And the MP-153 is made rather roughly, not like the Beretta or Browning: the sharp end of the butt sticks out above the frame, the pistol grip is a bit thick, sometimes the forend wobbles, there is no space for a red dot sight, the factory does not want an elongated attachment with a strong choke release, you have to make the removable rear sight and front sight for firing a bullet yourself, and you still have to look for spare parts.

Yes, sellers of the MP-153 do not praise it. But they know that “with all the wealth of choice, there is no other alternative”, that those guns that will be left over from export to America will immediately sell out. If only the plant could produce more of them.

Victor Valnev

Ammo

The MP-153 uses 12-gauge cartridges, which are manufactured in the CIS countries and abroad. Main manufacturers:

• Clever mirage;
• Record;
• Spark;
• Joker;
• Safari;
• Fetter;
• Posis;
• TechCream;
• Scm;
• Rio;
• CB;
• GlavPatron.

Cartridges 12/70 Clever mirage
Italian Clever mirage cartridges, which are excellent for hunting and clay pigeon shooting, are in great demand.

Technical characteristics of Clever mirage cartridges:

Collimator sight with a rail
To increase the accuracy of shooting from a gun, it is possible to install additional sights. The most common sight for the MP-153 is the red dot sight, which is excellent for hunting and clay pigeon shooting.

Scope installation process:

• knock out two pins on the gun body;
• install the Picatinny rail and secure it with screws;
• secure the collimator sight with a screw to the rail.

Description of the MP-153 for assembling and disassembling the gun

The sequence of assembling and disassembling the weapon is included in the instructions, which the manufacturer of the MP-153 necessarily includes in all deliveries of the kits.

Step-by-step process for disassembling MP-153:

• unscrew the magazine nut;
• remove the forend;
• move the bolt halfway, then remove the barrel;
• remove the safety flange;
• remove the charging handle;
• remove the moving part of the bolt frame, bolt and piston;
• remove the return spring and its thrust part;
• remove the feed spring and feeder;
• Unscrew the pins and remove the trigger mechanism.

Weapon Selection

This gun is a reliable weapon that has a long service life. Thus, athletes involved in practical shooting often have more than 30 thousand rounds of “Murok” guns. However, rarely do any hunters complain about problems with the MP-153: they take it out of the package and hunt a lot and successfully, without even thinking about fine-tuning the gun. In any case, in order to minimize the likelihood of purchasing a defective weapon, you need to pay close attention to the product you choose while still in the store. The main thing is that you shouldn’t be shy; you need to demand that the seller present all the copies in stock. They receive a salary for such inconveniences, and weapons, like a wife, must be chosen very carefully so as not to regret their choice for many years.

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Modifications of MP-153

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