What muzzle device?

What muzzle device do you use on your threaded rimfire barrel?

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Hi all ,
For those of you who have a threaded barrel on your rimfire , what do you like to use in there ? What kind of brake, compensator, flash hider ...
What else did you try and didn't like it ( or didn't work)?

I tried all kind , but I like to use bird cage flash hiders , and the Noveske copy made by Dlask.

ETA: the poll is multiple choice
 
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From what I read, don't use a brake/comp. It will blow the lead dust back into your face. Although ... Dlask is making a new muzzle brake for their threaded barrels that actually blow the dust forward instead of back. It's not like there is a ton of recoil from a .22lr anyways. I plan on buying one if the price is right.

If not, I am buying a Phantom Flash Hider for my SR barrel just for the cool factor.
 
Nothing for me, there really is no need, and brakes are a no-no unless you like high levels of lead exposure.

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If you are afraid of the lead dust (and you should be), there are
compensators out there that direct the blast (and dust) forward.
Krinkov type devices (like Noveske) do that, and so many others.

The forgotten LeVang linear compensator is very good at that,
as many other linear comps.
I mention LeVang, because is the most known
and it is the work-horse of linear compensators.


LeVang:

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This is the Dragon Head made by Black Hole Weaponry, it works after the same principles
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How could I forget about the Levang compensator :redface:
Now that would be a fine choice of muzzle device that directs everything forward . Good find.

But I wonder why so many companies modify the Levang and what they do to it . It seems to work fine as it is .
 
I wonder if a "quiet muzzle" type attachment would be suitable to force more lead dust down range?? Would probably be pretty easy to produce.

Or even a commercial 10/22 "quiet muzzle" barrel would be interesting.

Stolen from another thread.
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Here's a 10/22 that CPC backbored 2"
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Nothing really new here - bloop tubes have been used for 30 years and are still used on latest technology 22 target rifles. I have an Anschutz boar gun and a Walther that are both equipped with factory tubes. Barrel extensions are also used to locate the sights for an extended sight radius on match rifles.
 
I use flash eliminators/hiders, etc. on the muzzles of some of my rifles to give added protection to the crown. The fact that I think they look cool doesn't hurt.
I know that we're not supposed to bash the ends of the barrels into things; but it happens, to me anyway, and I really like the protection that the replaceable muzzle devices offer.
I have an actual muzzle brake (that is quite effective) on my .308 that gives me both the crown protection and the recoil reduction; but I'm not sure it would even be possible to re-direct enough gas to achieve any noticeable recoil reduction on a .22LR (.22WRM, maybe).
 
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But I wonder why so many companies modify the Levang and what they do to it . It seems to work fine as it is .
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The main complaint against the LeVang is the fact
that it doesn't have flats for wrench and because of that, it requires
strap wrenches or other things in order to tighten it onto the barrel.
Other than that, shooters of AR-15 love it.

Besides, few years ago, shooters of 6.8 SPC wanted a muzzle device
with 5/8"-24 thread (that's what their barrels had at the end).
The available AR-10 muzzle devices had that thread (5/8"-24), BUT the
bullet hole was too big for 6.8 (according to them).
The LeVang is intended for AR-15, so it has 1/2"-28 thread,
but it was a prime candidate for modding and adopting on 6.8 SPC rifles
because it was one of the very few muzzle devices that
had a lot of "meat" around the existing thread,
so it could be re-threaded (to 5/8"-24) and
its bullet hole could be easily enlarged for the slightly larger caliber.
So, maybe the above counts as a modification, but
in reality it is adapting the LeVang comp for another application.
 
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Thanks for the interesting info , Lector.


Clobbersauras said:
I wonder if a "quiet muzzle" type attachment would be suitable to force more lead dust down range?? Would probably be pretty easy to produce.

Or even a commercial 10/22 "quiet muzzle" barrel would be interesting.
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It would be very suitable . That cup type is very good at protecting the shooter from the lead dust. If it's removable , that's a bonus.
Lector uses on his guns something similar to what you posted but it's removable and i've seen many people using all kind of variants of the same thing.


dryfire said:
Nothing really new here - bloop tubes have been used for 30 years and are still used on latest technology 22 target rifles. I have an Anschutz boar gun and a Walther that are both equipped with factory tubes. Barrel extensions are also used to locate the sights for an extended sight radius on match rifles.
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That's true . Bloop tubes work to , even if their first intent was to increase the sight radius as you say .
 
the first ones he made them himself . They are contoured like an A2 flash suppressor but without the cuts . They dont look bad actually , the ones i've seen were nice little shinny things . Joe Dlask saw what Lector did and he decided to make few of those too .

On a diffrent note , the lead exposure is serious s**t . Check out this thread
http://www.canadiangunnutz.com/forum/showthread.php?t=497422
 
I have only been to the range 4 times since I got a gun and on every occasion there has been someone beside me with these things on the end of their rifles. I really hope that the stuff that hits me when those things go off is not.lead........:eek:
 
Skinny 1950 said:
...I really hope that the stuff that hits me when those things go off is not.lead.
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If it is lead that's hitting you, it'd hurt, and likely leave little holes.

I used to have a "Herbert Schmidt" brand revolver that would sometimes spit some lead out of the barrel-cylinder gap when everything wasn't lined-up.
After a few days the little wounds would fester-up and I'd be able to pick the flecks of lead out of the skin with a needle.
 
Those things were A2 flash hiders
that were picked out of the production flow
before the machining of the longitudinal cuts and wrench flats.
Think of them as a 80% flash hiders that I finnished
in a different way.

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I back-bored them
(so the inside cone would not constitute a restriction).
On some of them I did flats for wrench.

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And I have blued them.
But not all of them were "shinny", some were matte.


Anyway, after 200-300 rounds, you could notice on the inside
a thick layer of a very fine powder white like chalk
and that for me is a sign that it works
(in protecting the shooter
from a lot of what comes out of the muzzle).





On a different note, I could find some LeVang comps.
I slightly re-worked them like this:
I machined flats for the wrench and turned down the outside diameter
to .920" so it matches the 10/22 bull barrels.
It works like a charm.
I am looking for more LeVangs to re-work,
but they are hard to come by, I don't know why.
I will take some pics of the re-worked LeVangs and post them later.
 
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