which muzzle brake?

[penumbra]

I have Surefire brake/adapters installed on two of my 65G. They are AMAZINGLY effective.

Looking for ideas? Check out what the 3Gun competitors are using.

Want to know more about brake design? Read this article:

http://rvbprecision.com/shooting/adventu...rakes.html

[Hoot]

I have Surefire brake/adapters installed on two of my 65G. They are AMAZINGLY effective.

Looking for ideas? Check out what the 3Gun competitors are using.

Want to know more about brake design? Read this article:

http://rvbprecision.com/shooting/adventu...rakes.html

Yet another good article. Thanks for the link. Now I know what Ross' brake is patterned after (Holland).

The most interesting brake I ever made was from a 1 inch diameter by 3 inch long dowel of sintered bronze. I got the idea from a noise reducer we had on our pneumatic air plant where I once worked. Sintered bronze is quite strong, yet porous. It lets gas expand in all directions around it as the bullet passed through the sleeve, but not too much through any particular pore, but they add up. The only drawback was the need to soak it periodically to get the soot out of the pores.

It looked like this but longer and had a threaded solid brass termination on one end:



Unfortunately, but not unexpectedly, I discovered it reduced the sound blast a few decibels, enough to qualify it as a suppressor by BATFE standards and as such, it was illegal in my state to own, tax stamp or not. So, I traded it to an acquaintance in another state. We lost touch over the years, so I don't know how it endured over time.

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[Bob Duncan]

Please explain "standard" versus "adjustable."

[bwaites]

There are two WCI brakes. One is what appears to be a standard "pepperpot" type brake. It is more effective than other similar brakes I have seen, so I'm not sure what WCI has done differently, but it is very effective, and has no significant point of impact change on the rifles I have seen it used on.

The second is "adjustable" allowing you to go from fully braked to fully unbraked by twisting the body of the brake. It is actually a sleeved brake, and when the sleeve is rotated, the brake holes are closed, making the rifle function as if there is no brake. It is also very effective, with the disadvantage that the body diameter is greater because of the sleeve.

The adjustable brake is useful if you shoot at a range that doesn't allow or discourages brakes because they are louder than standard rifles, or in competitions where brakes are not allowed.

Both brakes are significantly less obnoxious than gill brakes and just as effective, in my experience.

[Bob Duncan]

Please explain "standard" versus "adjustable."

[noone]

I have used the FSC 30, and the Warped brake on 6.5 Grendels. The FSC30 doesn't provide nearly the recoil reduction of the WCI brake. I think the primary reason why it doesn't work as well as the WCI brake is because it was made for a 30 caliber bullet, not a 26 caliber bullet. Too much gas gets by beside the bullet for the FSC 30 brake to work at optimum level.