Muzzle Device or not to Muzzle Device?

[hawk-i]

A brake on a 6.5 CM...so this is where we've ended up.

For God's sake man, it's a tool to be applied to a firearm to achieve a specific result. It's got piss all to do with the size of your nuts!

 

[Milt Dale]

I met a fellow who was alone on a sheep hunt, to make a long story short He encountered a grizzly on the trail ahead and decided to fire a quick warning shot with His braked rifle, for the next 24 hours all He could hear was the ringing in His ears. I am told that all muzzle breaks are not equal but for me any increase in noise makes me jump, recoil not so much.

 

[SuperCub]

I don’t get it either. Must be a modern fad... just like putting recoil pads on everything.

I take my shirt off when I shoot round nosed bullets.

 

[Blastattack]

I met a fellow who was alone on a sheep hunt, to make a long story short He encountered a grizzly on the trail ahead and decided to fire a quick warning shot with His braked rifle, for the next 24 hours all He could hear was the ringing in His ears. I am told that all muzzle breaks are not equal but for me any increase in noise makes me jump, recoil not so much.

That fellow was quite an idiot for not wearing hearing protection while firing a gun. That’s one of the top safety rules.

 

[rral22]

That fellow was quite an idiot for not wearing hearing protection while firing a gun. That’s one of the top safety rules.

For sure. I've never broken that top safety rule of not wearing hearing protection while firing a gun. Never. Not once.

Well ........ hardly ever.

Maybe once or twice.

'Cause I always follow all the safety rules. Always. Yep. Even when I am firing warning shots at grizzlies, I always stop to put on the hearing protection first. Don't want to be an idiot.

 

[Blastattack]

You don’t stop. You just wear them. Period. Buck up the $65 and get some electronic muffs and you get super-hearing. There really isn’t any excuse for not wearing them.

 

[Markus]

You don’t stop. You just wear them. Period. Buck up the $65 and get some electronic muffs and you get super-hearing. There really isn’t any excuse for not wearing them.

You don't do a lot of hunting do you? When I'm 3 nights away from the truck I'm not packing electronic muffs with me.

 

[Splatter]

Put a small flash eliminator on it, like an A2. It protects the muzzle and makes it into an "assault weapon"!

 

[grelmar]

You don’t stop. You just wear them. Period. Buck up the $65 and get some electronic muffs and you get super-hearing. There really isn’t any excuse for not wearing them.

So, are you actually going to tell me, that wandering around in the bush for a week or more, that you never take your ear-pro off?

 

[rhino62]

I am going to put a muzzle break on my Tikka CTR 308 when I start shooting it again in the spring, since I had open heart surgery in August. The muzzle break should reduce the recoil to the same as a 223. I had a Ruger GSR with a muzzle break which I now regret selling because of this, so even if you have no problems with recoil there may come day when this is no longer true!

 

[emerson]

So, are you actually going to tell me, that wandering around in the bush for a week or more, that you never take your ear-pro off?

I just spent a week hunting with my brother who hunts with a braked rifle. Muffs were on his head always. Many at work carry custom plugs around their necks 12hr a day.

 

[BeaverMeat]

I take my shirt off when I shoot round nosed bullets.

Vlad, is that you?

But I think that’s a .22 lol

 

[Lead hammer]

I picked up a new hunting rifle. It's a TC Compass in 6.5 Creedmoor. I happened to come with a threaded barrel, so I'm wondering if it's worth putting anything on there? My first instinct is that since it's threaded, it obviously needs something screwed on there besides the thread protector. Is there a decent brake or compensator or something out there that won't throw a lot of the muzzle blast back at me or anyone beside me while I'm shooting? Is it even worth having something on there in the woods?
Cheers

Put a Heathen on it, wear earplugs. I have one on my 6.5 Creed. My intention was to take the brake off for hunting, but I just don't want to. I like the brake that much, even with the low recoil 6.5 Creed.

 

[Blastattack]

So, are you actually going to tell me, that wandering around in the bush for a week or more, that you never take your ear-pro off?

If I have my gun out, then ears are on. It’s just that simple.

 

[Blastattack]

You don't do a lot of hunting do you? When I'm 3 nights away from the truck I'm not packing electronic muffs with me.

Don’t need to pack something that’s on your head! Get out of truck, put on hearing protection. This isn’t a terribly difficult concept. A set of plugs takes up an ounce maybe. Muffs are more. But you only get one chance at good hearing. Best not to mess it up.

 

[Splatter]

Don’t need to pack something that’s on your head! Get out of truck, put on hearing protection. This isn’t a terribly difficult concept. A set of plugs takes up an ounce maybe. Muffs are more. But you only get one chance at good hearing. Best not to mess it up.

I'm with Blastattack on this. With my Walker's I get 100 hours of "on time" to a set of AAA cells. My flashlights also run on AAAs so I've got to have extras anyway.
And if the muffs are on for 16 hours a day, that's 6 days on a set of batteries