K31 muzzle brake close to $100, any cheaper ones?
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Why not just get a slip-on butt pad, about $15?
Or set up and make one; tooling won't cost more than 20 grand if you buy used.
Or you could get a nice shooting jacket with lots of pockets, arm pads for the sling, padded shoulder, likely about a hundred bucks and it will do for ALL your heavy rifles.
Besides, muzzle-brakes just generate too much NOISE for the other people on the range.
Or set up and make one; tooling won't cost more than 20 grand if you buy used.
Or you could get a nice shooting jacket with lots of pockets, arm pads for the sling, padded shoulder, likely about a hundred bucks and it will do for ALL your heavy rifles.
Besides, muzzle-brakes just generate too much NOISE for the other people on the range.
One small company down in deepest darkest Montana took it upon itself a few years back to develop a few worthwhile accessories for a military surplus rifle/carbine that most people, even shooters, had never heard of - the Swiss K31. Design and developent of of a genuinely functioning muzzle brake for such a minority interest firearm was never going to be cheap, nor was it ever going to make the manufacturers millions of dollars.
Hence what might be seen in some quarters as expensive bits of tin with holes in that simply clamps, or threads onto a strange-looking rifle/carbine.
Nobody else has EVER made a muzzle brake for a Swiss straight-pull firearm, nor I doubt, ever will. Nobody else I know of makes the current range of accessories for them, either, except Swiss Products of Kallispel Montana.
The price from Tradex, sad to say, is their price, and this reflects the pricing disparity between Canada and US, where it sells for $75.
As smellie notes, for sure you'll be as popular on the gun-line as a fart in an elevator - effective they sure are, but unfriendly in the extreme.
Get a PAST reducer.
tac
Hence what might be seen in some quarters as expensive bits of tin with holes in that simply clamps, or threads onto a strange-looking rifle/carbine.
Nobody else has EVER made a muzzle brake for a Swiss straight-pull firearm, nor I doubt, ever will. Nobody else I know of makes the current range of accessories for them, either, except Swiss Products of Kallispel Montana.
The price from Tradex, sad to say, is their price, and this reflects the pricing disparity between Canada and US, where it sells for $75.
As smellie notes, for sure you'll be as popular on the gun-line as a fart in an elevator - effective they sure are, but unfriendly in the extreme.
Get a PAST reducer.
tac
The K31 is a straight pull bolt action with a moderate recoiling cartridge. A muzzle brake is of no use to you here (aside from a weird ascetic in my opinion), muzzle brakes are designed to reduce muzzle flip on semi/full auto rifles to aid in keeping near target in FA 
, or on target in semi.
Yes I'm aware the Barrett and others have brakes and are bolt actions, but those are installed for stability of the "platform" more than muzzle flip due to the size of the cartridges...quite a different league from the K31.
T1ts on a Bull friend.
, or on target in semi.Yes I'm aware the Barrett and others have brakes and are bolt actions, but those are installed for stability of the "platform" more than muzzle flip due to the size of the cartridges...quite a different league from the K31.
T1ts on a Bull friend.
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You are kidding, right ???
Hopefully just stirring the pot.
IMO and like others have/will say, there's no practical use for a muzzle brake on a K31. Money saved can be used for ammo or reloading components for the rifle instead of buying a useless accessory.
This is a Swiss Products, uh, product. I am unaware of a Chinese rip-off version. Not to say there isn't one, but if you buy from Tradex, Grafs or Brownells, you are buying the real made in USA deal, not a POS maybe-near copy.
tac
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Just adding that if you intend to shoot your brake-equipped K31 in a Swiss-style comp you'll be watching the others shoot.
'snot allowed.
I'm real old and frail and decrepit, and I shoot all my Swiss schtuff the way that God, Messrs Schmidt & Rubin and Adolph Furrer intended. Nekkid muzzles are the way to go, IMO.
tac
PS - as for whether or not muzzle brakes are an effectation or a necessary fit, try prone shooting any b/a .50cal BMG rifle without one, and let us know how it feels, eh? It it's good enough for former M/Cpl Rob Furlong to shoot with a brake, well hell, it's good enough for me.
'snot allowed.
I'm real old and frail and decrepit, and I shoot all my Swiss schtuff the way that God, Messrs Schmidt & Rubin and Adolph Furrer intended. Nekkid muzzles are the way to go, IMO.
tac
PS - as for whether or not muzzle brakes are an effectation or a necessary fit, try prone shooting any b/a .50cal BMG rifle without one, and let us know how it feels, eh? It it's good enough for former M/Cpl Rob Furlong to shoot with a brake, well hell, it's good enough for me.
Re: "The K31 is a straight pull bolt action with a moderate recoiling cartridge. A muzzle brake is of no use to you here (aside from a weird ascetic in my opinion), muzzle brakes are designed to reduce muzzle flip on semi/full auto rifles to aid in keeping near target in FA , or on target in semi. "
Someone must have forgot to tell the Swiss this ! I have three K31s, and they all have Swiss Arms brakes on them. The "before and after" effect is substantial. I didn't enjoy shooting this gun until I put brakes on it. Originally would recoil as hard as the M38s I used to have. Can't say I enjoyed the recoil at all. Recoil is now about the same as my .243. It's less than the recoil of my Swede mausers in 6.5. Recoil aside, the effect on accuracy is reason enough to do the install. All three of my guns had their hundred yard groups almost halved when the brake was added. It definately increases the blast noise, but it means nothing to me, as I always have muffs on anyway.
Dave
Someone must have forgot to tell the Swiss this ! I have three K31s, and they all have Swiss Arms brakes on them. The "before and after" effect is substantial. I didn't enjoy shooting this gun until I put brakes on it. Originally would recoil as hard as the M38s I used to have. Can't say I enjoyed the recoil at all. Recoil is now about the same as my .243. It's less than the recoil of my Swede mausers in 6.5. Recoil aside, the effect on accuracy is reason enough to do the install. All three of my guns had their hundred yard groups almost halved when the brake was added. It definately increases the blast noise, but it means nothing to me, as I always have muffs on anyway.
Dave
Bazinga?
I actually tried to order one once upon a time from brownells but they couldn't ship it up here. I found it kicked a little stiffly off the bench, but recently my partner found a spot we could shoot out to 500 meters at. It feels gentler from prone, oddly enough.
