Clobbersauras
CGN Ultra frequent flyer
- Location
- Waaay out west.
I was able to pick up a Dlask's new XB6 muzzle brake and run it through a little bit of testing.
It's designed to compensate for both recoil and muzzle rise with ports aligned to divert gas to the sides and upwards. This is fairly typical of ported comps and brakes, but the cool feature of the XB6 is that all the ports are ramped rearwards, this helps to move the flow of gas to the rear and helps to mitigate recoil. I've never seen this before in a ported brake/comp design so I was very anxious to test it.
It looks great and as usual with Dlask products, it's machined perfectly. It installed easily with the supplied crush washer. EDIT: Don't install the crush washer in reverse like I did in the pics. The smaller (crush) portion goes against the barrel not against the muzzle brake. I've installed lots of these but got this one on in reverse and didn't notice...
It works very, very well. I was able to keep 5 rounds on a 8 inch pie plate at 15 yards shooting as fast as I possibly could. I've tried a lot of muzzle brakes/comps and flash hiders and the 15 yard pie plate test is a standard test I do with all of them. I've never been able to keep all 5 rounds on an 8 inch pie plate at speed with any other device. Pairs and triples were easy. The XB6 really is quite impressive in the way it mitigates muzzle rise and recoil; the muzzle just doesn't move. There was also very little POI shift from the previously installed A2.
Now, there is one big issue with the XB6; it's extremely loud! Running any muzzle brake on an SBR rifle is not pleasant but because of the orientation of the ports on the XB6, all the blast is directed at the shooter and anyone shooting beside him. This was accentuated by the short 10.25 inch barrel length on my AR. However, muzzle control was so good, that I hesitate to put the A2 Flash Hider back on my rifle. I am almost willing to put up with the blast to have that level of muzzle control. I really would like to try it with a 14" or 16" barrel. I think it would just be the cats ass with those barrel lengths and be a lot less obnoxious to shoot.
Here's a video, sorry for the crappy quality of the pie plate portion, but it was filmed under magnification. Again, the target was at 15 yards. The upper pie plate was shot doing pairs and triples. Watch the lower pie plate closely and you will see five holes appear. My rifle is zeroed at 75 yards so I was aiming at the upper portion of the plate.
[Youtube]9ECfIJlb7XI[/Youtube]
It's designed to compensate for both recoil and muzzle rise with ports aligned to divert gas to the sides and upwards. This is fairly typical of ported comps and brakes, but the cool feature of the XB6 is that all the ports are ramped rearwards, this helps to move the flow of gas to the rear and helps to mitigate recoil. I've never seen this before in a ported brake/comp design so I was very anxious to test it.
It looks great and as usual with Dlask products, it's machined perfectly. It installed easily with the supplied crush washer. EDIT: Don't install the crush washer in reverse like I did in the pics. The smaller (crush) portion goes against the barrel not against the muzzle brake. I've installed lots of these but got this one on in reverse and didn't notice...
It works very, very well. I was able to keep 5 rounds on a 8 inch pie plate at 15 yards shooting as fast as I possibly could. I've tried a lot of muzzle brakes/comps and flash hiders and the 15 yard pie plate test is a standard test I do with all of them. I've never been able to keep all 5 rounds on an 8 inch pie plate at speed with any other device. Pairs and triples were easy. The XB6 really is quite impressive in the way it mitigates muzzle rise and recoil; the muzzle just doesn't move. There was also very little POI shift from the previously installed A2.
Now, there is one big issue with the XB6; it's extremely loud! Running any muzzle brake on an SBR rifle is not pleasant but because of the orientation of the ports on the XB6, all the blast is directed at the shooter and anyone shooting beside him. This was accentuated by the short 10.25 inch barrel length on my AR. However, muzzle control was so good, that I hesitate to put the A2 Flash Hider back on my rifle. I am almost willing to put up with the blast to have that level of muzzle control. I really would like to try it with a 14" or 16" barrel. I think it would just be the cats ass with those barrel lengths and be a lot less obnoxious to shoot.
Here's a video, sorry for the crappy quality of the pie plate portion, but it was filmed under magnification. Again, the target was at 15 yards. The upper pie plate was shot doing pairs and triples. Watch the lower pie plate closely and you will see five holes appear. My rifle is zeroed at 75 yards so I was aiming at the upper portion of the plate.
[Youtube]9ECfIJlb7XI[/Youtube]
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