You'll do better with a shotgun, even a Mossberg.
The Huglu shotguns are heads and shoulders above the Baikals in every way. Even barring finish and refinement, every Baikal I have picked up has had something wrong with the stock - too much cast off, cast on, twist, drop + one of the other problems, thick wrists built as if they think we will drop it from a horse, and so on. Baikals are built strong in principle, but who knows about the material selection - that could be its downfall even with a basically strong design if the guns wears quickly.
You will be better served by a second hand gun made in the US, or a Beretta. Or not, you have to decide for yourself.
There are all sorts of reasons to select one gun type over another. Autos have long sight planes but you have to retrieve hulls if you want to reload them. O/U's give choke selection, which is mostly not important, but sometimes it makes a difference, and you can catch the hulls after each pair instead of picking them off the ground. Those are just two common examples.
A plain jane Berreta 686 model is the best O/U buy on the planet; the Black Onyx is ugly, but it has the same mechanics as the more expensive versions. The 682 is in a different price class, even more expensive than a Browning 525.