Help it do what? Reduce recoil? .223 really doesn't recoil that much especially with a heavier rifle.

 

It probably wont do a thing mate. Its a .223. Little to no recoil. A .308 doesn't need a muzzle break either.

 

No use at all, except being unpleasant to the guy next to you.

 

As I tried to point out in another thread, if you are having recoil problems the first thing you should check out is your shooting position. A bad position, especially if the rifle is not placed in the shoulder socket properly, will give you lots of grief.

I can't believe that anyone with a healthy body could have recoil problems with a .223 unless something was very wrong with they way they mount the rifle.

Perhaps, he's having accuracy problems?? IMO a brake would probably not help.

 

Ok, Ok, I just think they look cool.

 

If you like the cosmetics of a brake, then go for it, however as far as recoil reduction, I wouldn't bother. Just my opinion.

 

Personally, I would feel embarrassed to have a muzzle brake on a .223

 

Personally, I would feel embarrassed to have a muzzle brake on a .223

+1

 

All it is going to do is piss your neighbor off at the range. I had a bushmaster with an AK muzzlebrake and hardley ever shot it due to the annoyance it caused others (Hey it was $500!)

 

Personally, I would feel embarrassed to have a muzzle brake on a .223

+1

 

would just make noise. Like a huge can exhaust on a import car. Does it do anything? no. does it look/sound cool? Thats up to you.

 

No use at all, except being unpleasant to the guy next to you.

x100

 

Well guys i have a bit of a problem i have one of the Ben Carlson comps for the AR-15, Its has two ports at the top faceing 45 degrees.It has no ports on the side or the bottom just the top of it. I just dont wanna let it sit around and collect dust, but then agian i dont wanna sell it either. you guys think i should have put on:?:

 

Well i sould have said that i got rid of the ar for my custom .243 but i really like that break. And i am thinking about putting it on my other savage 10FP in .223

 

well the beauty of this break no ports on the bottom or directly to the sides. So i guess i am all good to go

 

well its gonna be a while shipping out to Basic on the 26th.


GO AIR FORCE!!!!! 8)

 

I had asked because the smith that I just started using builds custom breaks. Maybe I'll leave it alone for now.

thanks

 

Look, most wouldn't put a brake on a .308, I happen to like brakes on a 308 because I'm delicate (285lb of delicate). If you want a brake on your 223 get a brake, if you decide you don't like it then you can always have the threads cut off and have it crowned ot just put a thread protector on it.

It's your rifle and these things are intensely personal and visceral. It's not morally wrong to have a brake on a .223.

 

I really hate brakes at the range. A guy came and sat down next to me and was shooting a 300 win mag and the muzzle stuck out far enough to point the vents directly at my face. I had to leave. Some of the designs do look pretty cool but I think I would be embarassed to use it on a 223.

 

Wait tell your on the line in F-class and some body with a 338 super duper and a brake lets one off right when your getting up on the trigger. I think it PUSHED my rifle to the right. That 10X just dropped to 9... Nothing wrong with braking your 223, do what you want. Kick like a airsoft.

 

get brake

I know this is a way old thread, but I just had a brake put on my gun. I used to be one of those people who said no to a brake. Well after being able to spot my own shots, make a correction, and make a follow up shot all with out having to take my head off the gun, I am believer. If what you are shooting doesn't have the word magnum in it, the noise isn't going to be that bad. On my 308 I can hardly tell the difference in sound. I can now take the word recoil, and the phrase muzzle flip out of my shooting vocabulary.

 

A muzzle brake will not help reduce recoil on a .223. For looks, a muzzle brake can increase the length and improve the look of any rifle. I make my muzzle brakes/flash suppressors from black plumbing pipe cut to the appropriate length and fastened onto the end of the barrel. This way I can control the length. a muzzle brake/flash suppressor of this type is heavy then the standard kind you can buy at the store.

Roger
tacticalrifleshooter@gmail.com

 

Muzzle brakes can provide a solution to a variety of different problems, but recoil and muzzle flip of large calibers are usually the first to come to mind. They also have very apparent downsides. So it may seem obvious to say that a .223 should not have/does not need a brake.

The question is not whether it is right or acceptable to put a brake on a .223. The question is: "what problem are YOU trying to solve?".

I have a friend who put a brake on his .223 because he shot gophers and used a scope on high magnification with a small field of view. The brake provided just enough reduction in muzzle flip to let him "see the show". :shock: Good solution to his "problem".

What's right or best for one may not work for another because the root problem may be different but not obvious.

John

 

This thread is hillarious!

 

A muzzle brake will not help reduce recoil on a .223.

How so? If its properly made it will do the same job an any other break on any other caliber. All because a .223 does not need break or compensator; one should not imply that it will not work.

+1 to this reply. I happend to have a Roedale Muzzle Brake on my Tikka T3 Tactical in .223. And guess what, my .223 now feels like a .22rimfire recoil. People who say the .223 does not recoil are just trying to be macho. Even a .22lr recoils but not very much. A .223 recoils more than the .22lr when comparing rifles of equal mass and both rifles using the same technology (both bolt action, both without muzzle brakes) it's just plain physics. With a muzzle brake you don't loose sight picture from the closest 50yard shot all they way out to however long you want to shoot. However with good technique you can maintain good sight picture. Here is a youtube video of me shooting my customized Remington 700 in rapid fire (notice there is no muzzle brake on this rifle).

I make my muzzle brakes/flash suppressors from black plumbing pipe cut to the appropriate length and fastened onto the end of the barrel. This way I can control the length.

This I have to see. You know it against the law to build a suppressor with out government approval and the 200$ tax right?

One thing the first guy needs to understand that if he is using the muzzle brake to control the length of the barrel then I would assume that without the muzzle brake his barrel is shorter than the 16" requirement thus making his gun a SBR (Short Barreled Rifle) which if I remember correctly requires paperwork, taxes, and a waiting period. The only way to no make it a SBR is to attach a muzzle brake at the end making the barrel 16" legal BUT the barrel extension (muzzle brake) can not be removable, which means that it needs to be pin in or welded on. Until the first guy does that he has a SBR.

Now he did say muzzle brake or FLASH suppressor NOT a SOUND suppressor or silencer. Flash suppressors are not a class 3 item so do not have a $200 tax with serialized registration and waiting period. The guy just needs to make sure that the FLASH suppressor does not reduce the noise signature of his gun.