Page 3 - IZH 61 multi Reviews

Five shot repeater, side lever for prone position shooting, looked nice.

Better quality control on Baikal's part. When I received the rifle I immediately put the straight front post on. After loosening the plastic nut that holds the globe on I discovered the muzzle of the barrel was kind of "smashed" on one side. This is nothing that could of happened during shipping because the plastic "nut" was not busted, this had to happen at the factory. Set it up and shot it anyway, and off the sticks at 10 meters could not get good groups (my 853 groups very well of off the sticks).

Sent it back after about two hours of trying to get it to group. I know other people really like this rifle but I just had a bad one I guess. Pyramyd was real good about a refund about this issue so I'll be buying whatever I need in the future from them. Bottom line: If you want something that's easy on the pocketbook and really accurate take a look at the Avanti rifles from Daisy.

Very fun to shoot. Easy to cock. Compact and accurate.

An easier and larger clip would be nice. Maybe a round 10 or 12 shot clip. A more powerful version would be really nice

Like almost everyone who has reviewed this rifle, I was very pleased with the accuracy right out of the box. Very light cocking effort and nice positive clicks on the elevation adjustment. Seems perfect for its intended purpose: 10m target shooting and short range plinking.

It would have been great to have windage adjustment on the sight. Even a thrust screw would be nice. Having to loosen the two little phillips screws to push the site sideways is a bit tedious. I plan to add an Air Venturi rear sight as soon as Pyramyd has them back in stock. Otherwise excellent gun.

We experienced a lot of dieseling for the first 40-50 shots. Didn't seem to have much effect on accuracy. Swab the bore! Ours was filthy. Just passed half a dozen swabs through until they came out clean and now the barrel looks clear and shiny.

Easy handling, fun to shoot, accurate, well built, repeater. This gun is a good value and I have a consistent 400 fps showing with RWS Basics.I get about 5 to 10 fps less with Crosman Premiers. Overall a good little gun.

Put a cushion on the tip of the lever release, as it begins to hurt the tip of my finger when I do a lot of shooting. Put a Fiber Optic front site on it, it is diifficult to see it when shooting at dark objects. The Hood makes it difficult to see. .

Make sure you aim the gun down when loading the clips, as the pellets tend to fall out otherwise. Buy a lot of clips and pellets and enjoy this.

It is very comfortable and light weight. Easy to cock. Seems well built. Fairly accurate with open sights. A lot of fun to plink with and remove small rodents. 5 shots without having to reload is wonderful.

Better sights. Longer and metal sight rail. Optics slide off because of recoil and not enough rail to secure optics. Too bad cannot carry extra loaded magazines because pellets fall out. Maybe a simple loaded magazine sleeve should be included. Magazine needs a color change or mark to warn shooter that mag is empty- never shoot an empty chamber.

Not powerful enough for large varmints. Keep shots within 20 yards and ok for gopher/rat size animals. A great buy for the money. A lot of backyard fun.

Size and weight. Great looks and machine work. Easy to cock.

MORE POWER please!! Wish there was .22. If you are not careful loading the clips, the pellets fall right out and needs to be redesigned so it holds pellets a bit better.

Dont need scope to 10/15meter... it´s fun airgun. Get lots of pellets and extra clips!

Great 10 meter target rifle. This rifle has won many Gold Medals in the International Junior League. Wether young or old you will like this rifle. It is made to punch targets in same hole, not shoot game. However it is plenty enough for some such uses. Grooved for scope mount or use standard sights. extra clip and cleaning rod. Be careful not to double feed, as they are dificult to clear, you have to knock em out with the cleaning rod from the muzzle so be careful not to bugger the rifling. All IZH guns have hammer forged barrels as opposed to cut rifling, companies generally cannot afford the massive equipment to hammer forge, probably why these shoot so good. Just cheap ole Crosman wadcutters will follow each other, try some others too if you want one ragged hole. Pleasant to use, easy cock, not loud at all. Nice for basement in winter for everyone to share. Their Match pistol is a Olympic Medal winner too.

This is a compact stout rifle...The design is great..Its a work of art...I havnt fired it to many times but i can tell its well built..The Russans do good work on there guns...Has an adjustable stock and i got the model that has a removable clip instead of the single shot..Just get it and you will like it

More power and 22 cal would be great...I would like to see this design spitting out 22 cal pellets at 1000 FPS...The side cocking lever has a plastic section on the end,feels kinda cheep.Be carefull with it...

This is a great add on to my collection and dont regret buying it..As i said,could use a little more power and maby someday they will come out with a 22 cal version but overall this is a great pellet rifle..I love it.

Ótimo peso, bem balanceada. Gostosa de recarregar tanto pelo ponto de vista da força exercida, como do som metálico de "arma". Visualmente tem um conceito tático bem interessante e o preço é imbatível!

Só com o pente: trocaria de plástico por um de metal, colocaria mais 2 para totalizar 7 tiros, que tivesse uma trava para não disparar vazio, colocaria 2 cavidades dentro da estrutura para colocar extras já recarregados. Fora isso, um pouco mais de precisão, que tivesse mais força eeeee calibre .22!!!! mas aí é outra história...rs

O pente: na hora de colocar ele com os chumbinhos tem que ter um angulo inclinado para baixo, tipo 90graus, sob pena de eles saírem do buraco.

Accuracy... It is spot on. Although I did remove the sights. I added a red dot sight I purchased previously at Pyramyd.

Put a safety on it. My version did not come with one. Although this is NOT a major issue.

For the price an excellent value.

Surprised at the small size of the product. However, nice things can come in small packages. I really like this nice little plinker. easy to set up and adjust, it took 5 shots to dial it in on the iron sights. I then added a little Beeman 4X spoke i had sitting around and it even got better. Perfect for backyard plinking, quiet enough not to bother anyone and really nice to shoot for extended periods.

Would be great if the speed was around 600 rather than the 450 or so that it has but again, not a hunter and as a plinker i can not fault it.

Buy one, you would be glad that you did. experiment with the pellet until you find one it likes and go have a blast

It looks great. Good for younger shooters. Adjustable stock. Easy to dissemble and assemble.

Loudness. Its a bit too loud for such a weak rifle. Accuracy. Tried 10 different pellets, 3 different scopes and shot more than 300 shots. I just could not get any good groups. Only way to be somewhat accurate is to shoot without scopes. Mag. Pellets fall easily out of the mag, so you have to be very careful

Overall, a great rifle for the beginner due to it's light weight and ease of use.

Everything. The rifle is very well made, all the pieces seem to work together flawlessly out of the box. It's easy to load, cock, and fire with great accuracy. I have a 760 that will be replaced by this gun as my new plinking rifle.

Include more clips or make the clips bigger (10+ rounds) because this gun is so much fun to shoot. I bought two extra clips and its still not enough. Maybe make the dovetail rail a bit longer to accommodate different types of optics without the need for an adapter.

Buy more clips and even more pellets. I went thru quite a few pellets the first day it was delivered. I was using some cheap crosman pointed prllets from Wally World and they were as accurate or more so as I've seen them out of any of my other guns. I plan on buying some wadcutters in bulk now. I ordered a bug buster scope which should be here soon but for now I'm running a cheap crosman red dot and it's still on point. If only this company made a bolt action springer...

-Ease of cocking -Accuracy -Light weight -Size

-Sturdiness of but stock -Higher Spring strength

Very good gun for the price. Well built.

Accuracy, light trigger, light weight, 5 shot clip, easy to cock

Add a safety

This is a great gun. It is very accurate. I have used several different pellets and they all are accurate in this rifle. I have only used open sights at short distances. For target practice you can't beat the accuracy and price.

1. Easy to load. 2. Easy to actuate cocking mechanism. 3. Easy to carry & handle. 4. Balance is excellent. 5. Trigger pull is perfect, 1.5-2 lbs on my gauge. 6. Dime size accuracy at 20 ft, quarter size at 40 ft. 7. Doesn't seem to be ammo sensitive.

1. Location & length of factory dovetail. 2. Quality of rear sight. 3. Location of rear sight, can interfere with low mount scope. 4. Picatinny rail would be more useful than a dovetail. 5. Rubber butt pad would be a nice addition.

This is a fantastic air rifle, a very good value. It actually has a better trigger than any of my cartridge based rifles or handguns including my reworked AR15 trigger or match-grade 1911. I tried a 1X red dot & a 4X scope. I prefer the scope so can easily see the holes at 40 ft., my maximum range indoors. Parallax can be an issue on many red dots, when used at less than 50 yds. I had to add the Leapers Low Profile Airgun/.22 to Picatinny/Weaver Rail Adaptor. This must be mounted backwards to clear the mag release button located on top. 12" scope length requires both rings on the back part of the scope body to maintain sufficient eye relief. I already had a scope & rings that wasn't being used, was able to adjust the fixed parallax to my range. A Leapers UTG Bug Buster 4x-32 or 6x-32 seems to be a good match to this air rifle. Being a lot shorter than most scopes, it should mount "normally", i.e. 1 ring on either side of the W/E adjustments.

I purchased this gun for my 9 yr old son. I wanted a single pump gun that was easy to cock and load. Also it was very important to me that the gun consistantly hits where it is aimed. It keeps a 1" group at 20 yds (scoped), good enough for taking chipmonks and all I was expecting from this. My youngster is confident with it as a result. For a youth to develop good shooting skills I believe that is important. At first the mechanics of this gun seemed complicated but my 9 yr old mastered the steps very quickly. From loading to cocking to shooting he has no problems, all I need to do is supervise. Follow up shots are reasonably fast too. This gun has met all my expectations and more, now I just need to keep up with the supply of pellets.

This gun does not have a safety, I would definitely add a trigger safety. Back to shooting skills, kids should religiously use a safety button. I dont let my son cock it until he is ready to fire.

The pellets fit into the magasine loosly, and they can fall out occasionally during handling, however when the magasine is in the gun it is completely enclosed and the pellets are there to stay. This is a small frame gun that is perfect for young shooters. It is Light, simple to master, fun to shoot, reloads quickly and is pretty accurate for a gun in this price range. Buy it !

5 shot magazine. Surprisingly accurate. Easy to cock. Nice trigger. Quiet. Good ergonomics. It's just fun!

Some kind of stop when magazine is empty to prevent dry fires. Count your shots carefully. Better assembly. Mine front sight was mounted crooked and most do the screws were loose.

I have had issues with the bolt release on mine, which also functions as part of the cocking mechanism. When you push the cocking lever forward it catches the bolt/bolt release mechanism and pushes it forward chambering a pellet. Mine has come loose several times, which causes it to miss the bolt when the cocking lever goes forward so no pellet is chambered. If you tighten it too tight it raises the mechanism and the lever misses it. Too loose and the lever just pushes it aside. I guess I need to get it in the exact position and loc-tite it. The rifle is a LOT of fun to shoot so I don't want to return it, but this does concern me. Accuracy is good and the rifle is one of the quietest air guns I own.

I like everything about this gun! The ease of use, the styling, and above everything, the accuracy! It's not as powerful as my other pellet rifles, but great for plinking and target shooting.

The only thing I would change is the velocity. If it could be cranked up to over 600 fps it would be great for a longer distance.

I have the new version with the plastic receiver and 1 way trigger. It still feels rugged. Repeater function is great. Looks cool. Easy to cock. Trigger is OK.

The clips are poorly made and inconsistant. You will get different performance out of different ones. I had to sand and smooth out mine. The gun is pretty greasy and dirty out of the box. The pin securing the bolt? switch keeps working loose and I have to push it back in all the time.

I read a lot about how great this gun was. It is pretty good for the price. It is picky about which type of pellet it uses. I only use cheap pellets. I found Crosman Destroyers work well. Gamo Hunters are ok too. The cheapest Crosman scope works well with it. Mounts with no problems and adjust low enough to sight just right.