TOZ-87

The TOZ-87 (ТОЗ-87) is a Soviet gas-operated semi-automatic shotgun.^[2][6]

TOZ-87
Type	Semi-automatic shotgun
Place of origin	USSR
Production history
Designer	N. V. Babanin[1]
Designed	1978[2]
Manufacturer	TsKIB SOO[2] Tula Arms Plant[3]
Produced	since 1987[2][1]
Specifications
Mass	3.2 kg[3][4]
Length	1240mm[3][4]
Barrel length	711mm[3][4]
Width	60[4]
Height	200[4]
Cartridge	12/70[4][3]
Caliber	12 gauge[4]
Feed system	four round tubular magazine, plus 1 in the chamber[3][5]
Sights	iron sights

History

The shotgun MTs 24-12 was designed in 1978-1987 in TsKIB SOO, as a successor to the MTs 21-12 (the first Soviet semi-automatic shotgun), under the leadership of N. V. Babanin.^[7] In 1987 it was renamed to TOZ-87^[2][4] and Tula Arms Plant began serial production of the shotgun.^[6][1]

After the fall of the Soviet Union due to the economic crisis in Russian Federation in the 1990s, the prices of firearms increased.^[8] In September 1994, the cost of one new standard serial TOZ-87 shotgun was from 970 thousand rubles to 1.5 million rubles.^[9]

The TOZ-87 led to the development of the pump-action TOZ-194 in 1994.

Design

TOZ-87 is a smoothbore shotgun.^[1]

It has a beech or walnut fore-end and shoulder stock with rubber recoil pad on it.^[4]

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^[3][4][1]
• TOZ-87-02 (ТОЗ-87-02) and TOZ-87-03 (ТОЗ-87-03) - with 660mm barrel^[3] and interchangeable detachable chokes^[1]
• TOZ-87-04 (ТОЗ-87-04) and TOZ-87-05 (ТОЗ-87-05) - with 540mm barrel, 3.1 kg^[3]
• TOZ-187 - the second version, with 540mm barrel, plastic folding stock and plastic fore-end, 3.0 kg^[10]
• TOZ-187-01 (ТОЗ-187-01)^[1]
• 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^[7]
• TOZ-87-06 - rifled slug barrel that can fire Paradox slugs.

Users

• Soviet Union^[2]
• Belarus - is allowed as civilian hunting weapon^[5]
• Kazakhstan - is allowed as civilian hunting weapon^[11]
• Russian Federation^[1] - is allowed as civilian hunting weapon^[12]