IZh-81


The IZh-81 is a Russian pump-action shotgun.

History

In 1990s and even in year 2000 IZh-81 was the most common shotgun in private security companies in Russia.
In 1997, work began on creating a semi-automatic shotgun based on the design of IZh-81. In 1998, first MP-151 shotgun was made. After tests and trials, in 1999 this shotgun was presented at the "IWA-99" arms exhibition in Nuremberg. However, only 100 MP-151 were made before its production was discontinued.
In year 2000 began serial production of new pump-action shotgun MP-133 and new self-loading shotgun MP-153 was presented in Moscow arms exhibition. And in year 2000, production of IZh-81 was discontinued.
In April 2000, the price of one standard IZh-81 was between 4400 and 5400 rubles.

Design

IZh-81 is a smoothbore shotgun.
It has a beech stock and fore-end.

Variants

IZh-81 — standard version with 700mm barrel and fixed wooden stock, it has four round tubular magazine IZh-81 «Jaguar» — IZh-81 version for private security guards, it has 560mm barrel and wooden pistol grip without stockIZh-81 «Fox Terrier» — IZh-81 version for private security guards, it has 600mm barrel, AK-74M glass-filled polyamide folding stock and pistol gripIZh-81K — second model with 700mm barrel and fixed wooden stock, it has four round detachable box magazine MP-151 - semi-automatic shotgun based on IZh-81 design

Users