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08-04-2005, 10:47 AM
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I have to disagree with you lonestar. I know a few disabled shooters myself, and while several of them DO use brakes, most of them simply go with a lighter caliber, OR use recoil pads, etc to break up the recoil. A muzzle brake is NOT the end all and be all of getting rid of recoil.
Myself I AM recoil sensitive due to arthritis. I found that a pachmar decelerator pad was a MUCH better solution on my rifle than a muzzle brake. PARTICULARLY since I hunt without hearing protection. Many people use a muzzle brake as the cure all. The problem is that the problem may actually be a flaw in the gun, from chamber problems, to crown problems, bedding, there are any number of things that affect the way a gun recoils, and some of them simply never get any better no matter how much money you throw into fixing them. Slapping a muzzle brake on it for the hell of it may not, and I would venture to say is usually not the answer. On the flip side I do have at least one gun with a brake on it. It was not the worst decission I every made, but it was pretty close. I never use it to hunt with now because it is VOLUMES louder than it was before the brake was installed, and the sound problem is actually worse than the recoil problem was (it has virtually not recoil now). If I got to the range with it I try to pick a time when I am not going to interfere with another shooters enjoyment of the sport. I have seen more than one family, and or new shooter run off from the range by somebody shooting a supder duper mega mangle 'em with a muzzle brake that was setting off car alarms down the street every time the trigger was pulled. Just as being recoil sensitive and needing some means of cutting recoil does not make you any less manly (or womanly for the gals on here) haveing a 300 rum with a muzzle break that is louder than a zztop concert does not make you and MORE of a man either. Now before this heats up, I am not trying to simply discount the value of a muzzle break, nor do I hold anybodys choice of large calibers against them. However that being said I know of at least two people with 45-120's that will drop anything on the continent at 400 yards, and NEITHER of them is as loud, or obnoxious as the mega mangle 'ems with muzzle brakes. AND neither of them recoil as bad as mega mangle 'ems without brakes either. GoodOlBoy
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