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