The TOZ-87 (ТОЗ-87) is a Soviet gas-operated
semi-automatic shotgun
A semi-automatic shotgun is a repeating shotgun with a semi-automatic action, i.e. capable of automatically chambering a new shell after each firing, but requires individual trigger-pull to manually actuate each shot. Semi-automatic shotguns use ...
.
[В. Новак. ТОЗ-87 // журнал "Магнум", № 11 (23), 2000. стр.24-27]
History
The shotgun MTs 24-12 was designed in 1978-1987 in
TsKIB SOO
The Central Design and Research Bureau of Sporting and Hunting Arms, abbreviated TsKIB SOO () is a Russian small arms design bureau based in Tula, Russia. It was established in 1946, and it is currently managed as a branch of the KBP Instrument D ...
, as a successor to the
MTs 21-12 (the first Soviet semi-automatic shotgun), under the leadership of N. V. Babanin.
In 1987 it was renamed to TOZ-87
[А. В. Кузьминский. Оружие для охотника: практическое пособие / под общ. ред. А. Е. Тараса М., ООО "Издательство АСТ", 2002. стр.209-210] and
Tula Arms Plant
Imperial Tula Arms Plant () is a Russian weapons manufacturer founded by Tsar Peter I of Russia in 1712 in Tula, Tula Oblast as Tula Arsenal. Throughout its history, it has produced weapons for the Russian state. Its name was changed from Tula ...
began
serial production
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of the shotgun.
After the fall of the Soviet Union due to the economic crisis in Russian Federation in the 1990s, the prices of firearms increased. In September 1994, the cost of one new standard serial TOZ-87 shotgun was from 970 thousand rubles to 1.5 million rubles.
The TOZ-87 led to the development of the pump-action
TOZ-194
The TOZ-194 is a 12 gauge, pump-action shotgun manufactured by the Tula Arms Plant.
History
In the early 90's, the Tula Arms Plant designed a pump-action shotgun based on TOZ-87. In late 1994, the first model (TOZ-94) was developed.Никол ...
in 1994.
Design
TOZ-87 is a smoothbore shotgun.
It has a beech or walnut fore-end and
shoulder stock
A gunstock or often simply stock, the back portion of which is also known as a shoulder stock, a buttstock, or simply a butt, is a part of a long gun that provides structural support, to which the barrel, action, and firing mechanism are attac ...
with rubber
recoil pad
A recoil pad is a piece of rubber, foam, leather, or other soft material usually attached to the buttstock of a rifle or shotgun. Recoil pads may also be worn around the shoulder with straps, placing the soft material between the buttstock and t ...
on it.
Variants
* TOZ-87-01 (ТОЗ-87-01), also known as MTs 24-12 (МЦ 24-12) - the first version with 711mm barrel, wooden stock and wooden fore-end
* TOZ-87-02 (ТОЗ-87-02) and TOZ-87-03 (ТОЗ-87-03) - with 660mm barrel
and interchangeable detachable
chokes
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* TOZ-87-04 (ТОЗ-87-04) and TOZ-87-05 (ТОЗ-87-05) - with 540mm barrel, 3.1 kg
* TOZ-187 - the second version, with 540mm barrel, plastic folding stock and plastic fore-end, 3.0 kg
* TOZ-187-01 (ТОЗ-187-01)
* TOZ-88 - the last version with 711mm barrel, 3.3 kg
* TOZ-87-4M and TOZ-87-5M - TOZ-87-04 & TOZ-87-05 models with 54 cm barrels
* TOZ-87-06 - rifled slug barrel that can fire Paradox slugs.
Users
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* - is allowed as civilian hunting weapon
[«''Зарядились. В магазин ТОЗ-87 помещается четыре патрона, плюс еще один можно впихнуть непосредственно в ствол, итого пять.''»]
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* - is allowed as civilian hunting weapon
*
- is allowed as civilian hunting weapon
[«''2.3.2. Охотничье огнестрельное оружие гладкоствольное... Ружье одноствольное самозарядное ТОЗ-87 кал. 12/70''»]
Перечень служебного и гражданского оружия и боеприпасов к нему, вносимых в Государственный кадастр служебного и гражданского оружия (утверждён распоряжением Правительства РФ № 1207-р от 3 августа 1996 года)
References
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Sources
* Николай Аксенов. А с чем на охоту? // журнал "Техника молодёжи", № 12, 1995. стр.40-43
* ТОЗ-87 // журнал "Оружие и охота", № 7, 2002
* Охотничье ружьё ТОЗ-87 // В. Н. Шунков. Охотничьи ружья России. М., ЭКСМО, 2010. стр.203
* Виктор Рон. Восемьдесят седьмое одноствольное самозарядное // журнал "Оружие", № 9, 2015. стр.63-64 - ISSN 1728-9203
Semi-automatic shotguns of the Soviet Union
Semi-automatic shotguns of Russia
TsKIB SOO products
Tula Arms Plant products