Can you recommend a gunsmith for work on large bore precision rifle?

Not sure if Near Manufacturing in Camrose can do that sort of thing, but Id try him.

Edit: Wait, you have a PTRD and your putting a scope and muzzle brake on it...COOL!
 
Yes, I want to dress up that turd of a gun and try some long range paper punching. Considering that the round is to 50BMG what 243 is to 223, and the difference between 400 meter and 1000 meter sights is negligible, it should made a hell of a LR rifle when properly scoped due to flat trajectory.
Other modifications will include drilling a hole in the butt for a cleaning rod and manufacturing a better butt pad. The role of the new brake is to reduce recoil to exactly the rate at which the action will just eject. Maybe crowning is a good idea, don't know have to check and see. And all those changes will have to be reversible in order to be able to put her back to the original configuration.
 
svt-40 said:
On a somewhat related topic: do the brakes have to be steel?
Has anyone every experimented with aluminum brakes, or is that dangerous?
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You have a 38 lbs rifle and you want to save a few ounces using aluminum:p
Not sure but I think aluminum might erode too quickly. Even 7075 might not take the muzzle blast so well.
 
I am actually thinking of just using a machine shop locally or a metal fabricator. All I need is the correct thread in a short blank and a few pieces of steel welded to it. Should not be rocket science.
Agree about aluminum being useless - the brake welded of 1/4" steel should not be way too heavy.
I am thinking of something along these lines
ar50mbMuzzle.jpg

rather than this
Muzzle_brake.jpg
 
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