Muzzle brake?

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I’m always glad when I can get someone to help me out with spelling. I couldn’t remember what I’d read about it to save myself. I hadn’t seen it my last tour of the shop. Been a few years now. After reading my reply I must be thinking of how my chest feels with this flu I’ve had for a week now.
 
I’m always glad when I can get someone to help me out with spelling. I couldn’t remember what I’d read about it to save myself. I hadn’t seen it my last tour of the shop. Been a few years now. After reading my reply I must be thinking of how my chest feels with this flu I’ve had for a week now.

Same here, my friend - this fall and winter has been awful. I've had a recurring sinus & upper respiratory infection coughing, hacking, sneezing, sniffling thing 3 times since the beginning of Oct, it lasted 6wks the first time, two weeks off, then hit again just in time for deer season, lasted about 4 more weeks, two more weeks off, then hit me 3wks ago now, about the day I thought I was OK and I went back to work travel, I got hit hard and cut my trip short - found out yesterday it's full on flu now. Doc says my immune system has likely been pummeled for too long this winter, so I was weakened to resisting the flu... Hit some Xolfluza (the new and improved Tamiflu replacement) yesterday afternoon and a steroid pack to get me back on track - feeling a LOT better than the first few days, but a long ways from normal. Still coughing up small animals, achy, and drained, but my fever hasn't been up over 100 again since I started the meds, and I'm way, way better than I started. Missed a kick off match for our state PR club yesterday, don't even have my rifle put back together for season after rebarreling yet, so I gotta get my poop in a group in a hurry - hoping these meds will carry me to health and I can be done being sick for the rest of the year.
 
I do not have a lot of experience with brakes, but I do know my Little Bastard works and the blast/noise isn't bad at all. Not worth worrying about IMHO.
 
Same here, my friend - this fall and winter has been awful. I've had a recurring sinus & upper respiratory infection coughing, hacking, sneezing, sniffling thing 3 times since the beginning of Oct, it lasted 6wks the first time, two weeks off, then hit again just in time for deer season, lasted about 4 more weeks, two more weeks off, then hit me 3wks ago now, about the day I thought I was OK and I went back to work travel, I got hit hard and cut my trip short - found out yesterday it's full on flu now. Doc says my immune system has likely been pummeled for too long this winter, so I was weakened to resisting the flu... Hit some Xolfluza (the new and improved Tamiflu replacement) yesterday afternoon and a steroid pack to get me back on track - feeling a LOT better than the first few days, but a long ways from normal. Still coughing up small animals, achy, and drained, but my fever hasn't been up over 100 again since I started the meds, and I'm way, way better than I started. Missed a kick off match for our state PR club yesterday, don't even have my rifle put back together for season after rebarreling yet, so I gotta get my poop in a group in a hurry - hoping these meds will carry me to health and I can be done being sick for the rest of the year.


I hope your doing better by now. Had to go back to Urgent Care today. Been almost 8 days this ones going on. Second one this year and not as bad as yours I think my first go around a few months ago lasted about 3 weeks. Can’t catch a break from work so go in the days I have to and try and work from home days I just can’t make it. Crazy weather now. Near 70 one day and highs in low 30s and teens at night. Pneumonia weather for sure. They done a chest X-ray Friday and was thinking it’s what I had. Doc said I was about one day away from having it if I hadn’t come in. Sure would be nice to be in my 30s and 40s again. Seemed like sick just passed right on by.
 
After some trials and tribulations with shipping, I finally received my little bastard last Friday.
I swear this thing makes 20190209_091408.jpg you a better shooter. I dont loose the target in recoil and I can see my hits perfectly when the trigger breaks. Pretty cool!
7 rounds at 300 yards with the factory trigger. Cant waite to try out the new rifle basix trigger this weekend.
 
I was reading about this topic a while back and stumbled upon a reddit thread about this. https://www.reddit.com/r/longrange/comments/7hcdzn/best_muzzle_break/

for you who don't want to read, the most interesting post was about "the beast" from muzzlebrakesandmore. https://muzzlebrakesandmore.com/beast-1-piece he has a bunch of youtube videos showing a rifle on a rolly sled thing which his brake and a little bastard brake. his outperform for 1/3 the cost. If it is to be believed. Here is the beast vs little bastard
 
I have nerve damage in my right shoulder, which makes it a pain to shoot large caliber rifles. When I decide to build an AR in 458 Socom I couldn’t find a muzzle brake that offered much. I went to see my buddy, Zack over at Aklys Defense, and asked him to make me one.
It works great.
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brakes on gun in about the powder capacity and down from the 7 rem mag, are not as efficient. the recoil reduction may not be worth the down sides. and how are u shooting the gun prome, bench standing, or even on a firing line.

This.

Brakes or hybrid brake/compensators on smaller calibers are definitely helpful in keeping on target, especially rapid fire, but felt recoil reduction is significantly less than larger powder capacity cartridges with higher exit pressure.

Whether or not it's worth it depends on what you'll be doing with the rifle. I advise against muzzle brakes on hunting rifles universally due to the increased sound pressure at shooter's ear. But on a long range precision rifle where you do need to see your hits and you will be wearing ear pro, it's a different story.

Of course, suppressors reduce recoil as much as the best muzzle brakes, drop sound pressure 30-ish dB and virtually eliminate muzzle blast. Just sayin'.............
 
I have used an assortment. Those that have a high pressure port, in my experience, have a much snappier sound that adds to the perceived loudness quite a bit. Brakes like the SJC Titan are very nasty to be around. I have a JP Recoil eliminator that works very well, and while louder than a flash hider, it is not painful with plugs.


The charts available in those links above are great resources to look through and make a decision.
 
I had a surefire break that i put on a 20" barrel 308 that worked great for recoil reduction and rise, but it was really loud. Not so much of a concern on the range with ear pro, but a problem in the deer stand when I don't wear peltors. The 308 and 6.5 CM use the same thread pattern, I believe.
 
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