I hate muzzle brakes!

[Marshfly]

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

Once you realize those headaches are from brain damage, your entire view changes. Another change comes when you have constant ringing and your kids/wife can hear bugles, gobbles, etc. that you can't. And I am only mid 40s.

 

[madcalfe]

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

what brake are you using? is it a radial or directional?
I literally have zero flinch or notice the concussive blast while shooting mine.
stand on either side of me though you can feel it in your chest lol

 

[deadwolf]

If you have a muzzle brake on at the range you need to go to the end of the firing line, period.


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[madcalfe]

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:

Muzzle Brakes: Sound Test

I thought about these muzzle brake tests for over a year before I started this field test. We all kn...

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I read the blog. I'm not a mathematician but what he's saying seems to contradict itself..

no muzzle device is 150.6db with the apa fat bastard its jumps 164.5db.... then he goes on to say the lowest brake which is the ops scored at 155.5db is 41% increase in perceived loudness and says the fat bastard is 162% increase in perceived loudness..... when the difference is 15db..

 

[AZ_Hunter_2000]

I read the blog. I'm not a mathematician but what he's saying seems to contradict itself..

no muzzle device is 150.6db with the apa fat bastard its jumps 164.5db.... then he goes on to say the lowest brake which is the ops scored at 155.5db is 41% increase in perceived loudness and says the fat bastard is 162% increase in perceived loudness..... when the difference is 15db..

Each 10 dB is basically doubling how "loud" something is.

 

[Stud Duck]

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.

I despise them as well. Passed on several rifles I would've liked to purchase due to a brake being installed.

That is all.

 

[IdahoBeav]

I actually prefer the recoil mitigation from a suppressor over that from a brake.

 

[Robobiss]

I read the blog. I'm not a mathematician but what he's saying seems to contradict itself..

no muzzle device is 150.6db with the apa fat bastard its jumps 164.5db.... then he goes on to say the lowest brake which is the ops scored at 155.5db is 41% increase in perceived loudness and says the fat bastard is 162% increase in perceived loudness..... when the difference is 15db..

The math is correct. 150 to 160 db is (at least) twice as loud. 150 to 155 db is ~ 50% louder. The scale is weird, but that’s pretty much how it works, at least for our purposes. An increase or decrease of 10db is huge for perceived loudness as well as hearing damage.

To put it into perspective, a baby cries at ~110db. A suppressed rifle is somewhere in the neighborhood of 135-140 db.

 

[Mike D Texas]

They make big suppressors...

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

Yep but they don’t reduce recoil near as effective as a well designed brake.

 

[IdahoBeav]

Muzzle brakes should be an NFA item and suppressors should not.

 

[Dmoua]

I like brakes and I cannot lie.

 

[Marshfly]

Muzzle brakes should be an NFA item and suppressors should not.

If suppressors and muzzle brakes were invented today, Suppressors would be mandated on new firearms and brakes would be outlawed due to the hearing and brain damage.

 

[huntnful]

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.

That’s called natural selection. You would have been culled out many years ago with your baby soft brain skeleton .

 

[Schmo]

That’s called natural selection. You would have been culled out many years ago with your baby soft brain skeleton .

Yeah, that’s okay. I like shooting my 223 haha

 

[huntnful]

Yeah, that’s okay. I like shooting my 223 haha

Me too hahaha

 

[mxgsfmdpx]

See if you use a long enough barrel the concussion is at least 4 feet away from your brain. Or you could be like me and have minimal brain left so it doesn’t matter anyway.

 

[Schmo]

I’m just flattered that folks supposed I had a brain to be damaged in the first place.

 

[huntnful]

See if you use a long enough barrel the concussion is at least 4 feet away from your brain. Or you could be like me and have minimal brain left so it doesn’t matter anyway.

30” barrels with a muzzle brake is basically hearing and brain safe

 

[Schmo]

@huntnful is the sole buyer of any long barrels these days.

 

[mxgsfmdpx]

If suppressors and muzzle brakes were invented today, Suppressors would be mandated on new firearms and brakes would be outlawed due to the hearing and brain damage.

But suppressors are scary and for sniper rifles in the war. No civilian needs that!