I hate muzzle brakes!

[Schmo]

Just posting to share my hatred of muzzle brakes. I appreciate the recoil reduction, but absolutely hate the blast. (Back story is that I’m load developing a rifle for a family member, and it has a brake) I know many of you feel the same way. Okay, rant over.

 

[taskswap]

But they're tactical.

 

[Thinkingman]

They look so COOL!

 

[ICanSeeYourPixels]

Hopefully it's a suppressor brake

 

[Poser]

Being next to one at the range is terrible. I've worn earplugs under muffs and still felt as if my tooth enamel were going to shatter.

 

[manitou1]

I absolutely love them when I am shooting by myself, working up loads, confirming dopes, etc.

I remove them for hunting.

I hate being next to somebody at the range with one.
I do all my shooting on public land down the road from our place.

 

[WCB]

Just posting to share my hatred of muzzle brakes. I appreciate the recoil reduction, but absolutely hate the blast. (Back story is that I’m load developing a rifle for a family member, and it has a brake) I know many of you feel the same way. Okay, rant over

Hated them the first time a client had one on their rifle.

 

[Pilsner]

100% agree!
After a day of working the firing line during a recent class where it seems that everyone but me had a brake it took about 3 days for the headache to go away. Thats with muffs over plugs. My extensive history with TBI's makes the problem worse I suspect.

 

[BBob]

I’m totally fine with them I’m liking suppressors better but brakes are great!

 

[hereinaz]

100% agree!
After a day of working the firing line during a recent class where it seems that everyone but me had a brake it took about 3 days for the headache to go away. Thats with muffs over plugs. My extensive history with TBI's makes the problem worse I suspect.

I get concussion headaches too. Didn’t like that about the local PRS matches. I stood as far back as possible and only did scoring and such as necessary to do my part.

 

[ElPollo]

Being next to one at the range is terrible. I've worn earplugs under muffs and still felt as if my tooth enamel were going to shatter.

This generally makes me pack up my shit and reconsider my plans for the day.

 

[KenLee]

I haven't shot at a public range in over 10 years and don't plan to.
If you show up at my place with a brake, it better stay in the vehicle it arrived in or you are leaving with it.

 

[Schmo]

This morning I was doing load dev on a 20” Tikka 6.5 PRC with a brake. After only 20 rounds, I had a headache.

 

[Marshfly]

A couple of years ago a buddy asked me to help him sight in his 308 so we went to the range. He pulls out the rifle with the brake attached. I told him quickly that there was zero chance I was shooting it with a brake so he could either have it sighted in without or not at all. LOL. We sighted it in without.

Interestingly on that same range trip I was sighting in a Tikka 6.5CM with a Trijicon Credo on it for my son. He shot that combo and a week later had sold the 308/Leupold VX3 combo and bought the identical components/caliber to my son's rifle so we could build it up for him. Quickly fell in love with it and never looked back.

 

[nettereo16]

Being next to one at the range is terrible. I've worn earplugs under muffs and still felt as if my tooth enamel were going to shatter.

I had one next to me at a 100 yard indoor range some guy had on an AR-10. Even with ear plugs under muffs I had ringing and a headache the next day. I’ll leave the next time. Brutal.

 

[Mike D Texas]

Meh, recoil reduction is worth it on bigger cartridges. I just double up on ear pro.


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[Marshfly]

Meh, recoil reduction is worth it on bigger cartridges. I just double up on ear pro.


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They make big suppressors...

Double ear pro does zero for the shock waves into your brain.

 

[madcalfe]

we're not allowed suppressors in the 51st state so got to use a muzzle brake.
Doesn't really bother me but have definitely rung the ear drums a few times on some quick shots

 

[Schmo]

My problem is that I flinch because of the blast I know is coming, not because of the recoil

 

[AZ_Hunter_2000]

Not a fan of brakes. With in-ear and over-the-ear protection it literally hurts. Hate them with a passion at the range and more often than not decline spotting shots for hunters with them. Their benefits do not offset the hearing damage.

10 years old so some things may have improved a bit:

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