[MOA]

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.

 

[rdsii64]

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.

 

[tacticalrifleshooter]

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

 

[jrob]

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

 

[MitchAlsup]

This thread is hillarious!

 

[gszeto99]

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.

 

[gszeto99]

gszeto99 thank you. I did read a little to far into that. Your info is spot on. Still I want to see it pulled off with some black plummer pipe

+1 to that. I want to see it off of a plummer pipe too!!!