Top 10 hunting rifles

Our rating of the best guns for hunting opens the work of Izhevsk masters MR-27M. A double barrel is usually bought for a long time, and here there is a choice: to overpay for reliability or to choose a model with easily available spare parts. Considering that now even Turkish critical guns are slowly but surely approaching the border of the budget class, and guns like Ata Arms SP have actually gone to the “middle class”, the Izhevsk side-fold does not lose popularity: during the times of the Soviet Union, when it was called Izh- 27, he became the champion in the number of models released - more than a half million.

There are many modifications of the gun available - from a budget version in plastic to piece guns with a rich decorative finish, approaching at the price of the well-known abbreviation BBB. There is a choice in the calibers, and in variants of the trigger mechanism, and in the lengths of the trunk. For quite some time now, it is possible to cheaply turn a rifle into an “almost combined” one within the framework of a “smooth-bore” license by purchasing a supplementary barrel for the .366 caliber - the latter, although it is called “under-cut”, showed itself well on the hunt. Well, let's finish the list of assets with a well-studied (not surprisingly, the model “knocked out” exactly 45 years) with a construction.

True, traditionally for Izhevsk, mass rifles require attention when buying: there is a risk to meet with pulled trunks, and with curved planks, and the difference in the thickness of the muzzle cut is officially not recognized as a defect by the plant. The tree is almost the same for almost half a century already habitually called “stick” and “paddle” - it is badly fitted on gross guns, but ergonomically ... Okay, let's not talk about the bad, just the amount of “meat” on the bed allows you to fit the gun ".

A great combination of a completely classic style with modern technology involuntarily asks to change pouches to a leather game bag, and a camouflage cap to a hat with a feather. Keeping the traditional quality of finishing and maintaining the style, Beretta simultaneously offers us a cold-formed block of trunks welded according to the Triblock technology, which provides high rigidity of the connection, easily removable USM with modernized V-shaped springs, and the special design of the fuse eliminates shots during falls and in “non-standard” positions - for example, if you catch hold of a descent while carrying a gun on a pursuit of a shoulder. Chokes - replaceable, standard Optimachoke HP, capable without the risk of working with steel shot large numbers. For Russia, fortunately, lead is more relevant, but an extra margin of safety does not hurt, is it?

The Italians had a hunting rifle, undoubtedly worthy, and yet not completely terrifying in price, like top models from the same Beretta, which have already crossed the bar of a million rubles. So, adding a little to the rating from connoisseurs of the classical style, we will surely give it the first place.

While in Russia pump-shotguns are not particularly popular in hunting (their absence in Soviet times affects, the first civilian “pump”, Izh-81, appeared in stores only in 1994), for the USA it is actually a classic. Well, the classic from the classic is, undoubtedly, the 870th Remington, which has been produced in many modifications since 1951 (more than 11 million guns left the factory).

Among them were purely hunting rifles, including those equipped with “purely American” 12-caliber rifled barrels (“reindeer rifle”), and police “shortages”, all familiar to the militants. Well, and since we are talking primarily about hunting, we’ll focus on the Wingmaster version with a long shot barrel and a four-charge magazine.

It makes no sense to describe the design of this gun - it’s been completed in 67 years, simple and reliable mechanics, and even cheaper production has not had a significant impact on the resource lately, and the tuning industry for “Remingtons” has worked to get rid of “children's ills”. In Russia, craftsmen produce a lot of "nishtyakov" quality, not inferior to the American aftermarket, but at much more pleasant prices.

You shouldn’t expect refined finishes or delicate fittings from the “rem” - it was, is and will be a real working rifle, old-fashioned and weighty thanks to a steel receiver, and this is in times of light alloys. For which, in fact, love him.

Speaking of inertial semi-automatic devices, it is impossible not to mention Benelli - although this recharge scheme itself appeared at the beginning of the 20th century on Swedish Sjogren, it was Benelli that brought the idea of ​​an inertial mechanism to a modern "licked" state several decades later. And, although it is difficult to be compared to “omnivorousness” with an adjustable intake gas discharge, Italian inertial show good versatility, “digesting” and heavy magnums on a goose hunt, and sporting charges on a stand.

“Crio” in its name refers to another proprietary technology of Italians - cryogenic processing of the barrel billet and interchangeable chokes. A curious feature of such barrels is not the use of a soldered aiming bar, but the installation of a replaceable carbon fiber, which, among other things, reduces the mass of the gun and ensures predictable barrel vibrations when fired, and therefore ensure a good bullet fight without the need to use interchangeable “bullet” barrels.

For a quick control of the availability of cartridges in the store, the Window System is provided - in other words, a longitudinal groove in the forend and magazine. The construction cannot be simpler and at the same time effective, but you should not test the reliability of the gun with a dip in the mud: delays will begin when shooting.

Perhaps, only in this market segment Russian gunsmiths have no serious competition and are not expected - having combined a proven and reliable "Kalashnikov" design with smooth-bore caliber, Izhevsk designers created a trend in their time.Well, the Vyatka-Polyansky “Molot”, taking for the base not AK, as Izhevtsy with its “Saiga”, but the PKK, created the “Boar” - the most reliable and well-assembled domestic “Kalashoid”, beloved by both “self-defenders” and IPSC arrows .

Available "pig" (as his name is popularly) in several trim levels - from the "shortening" of 205-03 with a barrel as much as 305 mm in length, which when fired due to the roar and muzzle flash resembles a pocket howitzer, to a monstrous anti-aircraft gun with a barrel 680 mm, to which is added a considerable length of the receiver. Especially for IPSC shooters, a sports version “Vepr-12 SP” is being produced with “factory tuning” - a telescopic butt, an effective DTK and other modifications.

There is a "Boar" and branded "highlight", and not very pleasant. We have already mentioned that the principles of Boris Razor on the Hammer are honored and respected. That is why even the shortest “pig” weighs more than 4 kilograms with an empty magazine.