Muzzle Brake? Please Help!!

[Lone Star]

The thinking in the above post would deny shooting for hundreds of shooters with disabilities who cannot fire rifles with much recoil. I know two such, and their enjoyment of shooting even mild cartridges like .243s would not exist without brakes.

But the poster above failed to read what I wrote. The "cottage industry" I detailed abuses the shooter as not being "man enough" to shoot a heavy rifle without a brake. It had nothing to do with the potential for hearing damage or disruption of fellow shooters.

Anyone who varmint hunts knows the great advantage of being able to see your own misses - using spotters is not the same at all, as experienced varminters know very well. I'll leave it to the rest of the readers as to why the poster above had to evoke the "red mist" comment to color the subject as somehow inhumane or even 'gross'.

To dismiss brakes out-of-hand is everyone's right to do of course, but it smacks of the same thinking used to justify the outlawing of guns themselves.

"No American needs to own a gun, they are just too dangerous! Just take up archery instead, you can safely perforate bales of hay and not endanger the rest of us with guns your fellow shooters use in crimes. Think of the children whose unprotected hearing is damaged by hearing gun fire!"