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Looking for reccomendations for a gunsmith in b.c.. Would like to have the muzzle on my rem 700 338win threaded for a brake and brake installed, possibly pillar bedded and floated. Jennings came highly reccomended from a friend but i cannot get a hold of the shop. The phone number appears disconnected. He has a jennings brake in the same caliber and i was impressed when my ears didnt bleed after shooting it apparantly the holes are drilled so as to direct sound away from the shooter. Any reccomendations on brakes/smiths will be appreciated.
 
I have done literally several hundreds of brakes since 1968... I am in Brentwood Bay just outside of Victoria.

This has been a favourite on hunting rifles... holes are angled slightly forward...

On a very light weight barrel
thinbarrelbrake2-0.jpg

brake-crown.jpg


PM me for details...
 
mrplumber said:
Looking for reccomendations for a gunsmith in b.c.. Would like to have the muzzle on my rem 700 338win threaded for a brake and brake installed, possibly pillar bedded and floated. Jennings came highly reccomended from a friend but i cannot get a hold of the shop. The phone number appears disconnected. He has a jennings brake in the same caliber and i was impressed when my ears didnt bleed after shooting it apparantly the holes are drilled so as to direct sound away from the shooter. Any reccomendations on brakes/smiths will be appreciated.
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Dave Jennings has recently retired. His son, Shaun Jennings has taken over the business. His new business name is, "Jennings Custom Gunsmithing." 1-250-372-4888. Shaun is currently working on a rifle of mine.
 
guntech said:
I have done literally several hundreds of brakes since 1968... I am in Brentwood Bay just outside of Victoria.

This has been a favourite on hunting rifles... holes are angled slightly forward...

On a very light weight barrel
thinbarrelbrake2-0.jpg

brake-crown.jpg


PM me for details...
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MMM- I have to ask "what is the felt recoil reduction with forward expelling holes".

i ask because i was involved with a buddy who built his own brake 40 yrs or so ago before they were not more than a mention in a couple of gun mags. It was a very "untried concept" back then and a lot of different concepts were tried by us on a lot of proto-types including hole numbers, hole sizes, hole angles, different muzzle clearances, and so on.... a lot of chips were made until we decided on a working "effective" model.

We found no design with forward expelling holes made any difference in rearward thrust of the rifle (.32-378 WBY) no mater how many holes were drilled in fact we thought we could notice the exact opposite of what a brake is supposed to accomplish. It might have been an imagined increase in backwards thrust but for sure there was no lessening the felt recoil in the least....yes back-blast & noise was certainly directed away from the shooter by forward holes but we could achieve a lot better with no brake at all.
Basicaly we could not feel any recoil reduction until the holes were pointed rearward. With the brake design that we finally used, felt recoil from that rifle is in the .243 Win class....but that damn muzzle blast is atrocious.
 
fingers284 said:
MMM- I have to ask "what is the felt recoil reduction with forward expelling holes".

i ask because i was involved with a buddy who built his own brake 40 yrs or so ago before they were not more than a mention in a couple of gun mags. It was a very "untried concept" back then and a lot of different concepts were tried by us on a lot of proto-types including hole numbers, hole sizes, hole angles, different muzzle clearances, and so on.... a lot of chips were made until we decided on a working "effective" model.

We found no design with forward expelling holes made any difference in rearward thrust of the rifle (.32-378 WBY) no mater how many holes were drilled in fact we thought we could notice the exact opposite of what a brake is supposed to accomplish. It might have been an imagined increase in backwards thrust but for sure there was no lessening the felt recoil in the least....yes back-blast & noise was certainly directed away from the shooter by forward holes but we could achieve a lot better with no brake at all.
Basicaly we could not feel any recoil reduction until the holes were pointed rearward. With the brake design that we finally used, felt recoil from that rifle is in the .243 Win class....but that damn muzzle blast is atrocious.
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This brake works very well... it makes a .338 easy for a light woman to shoot... the vast majority of new customers for this brake are friends of a shooter who has one and have shot it... the forward angle is slight... the theory is to help 'chase' the noise forward...

The most brutal design of brakes was on old BSA rifles with large slots pointing 45 degrees backwards... recoil reduction was excellent but it was also the loudest brake ever... due to the direction of the ports...
 
Thanks for all the responses guys! I had heard dave was retiring..but i found his number in the most recent synopsis. Thanks for the pictures guntech that looks to be the same brake. As to the effectiveness I felt there to be a noticible difference in felt recoil and muzzle jump between my rifle (rem 700 bdl limbsaver pad) vs my friends (sako a5 wood stock rubber tire pad) the brake seemed to turn the recoil into more of a firm but smooth push into my shoulder. The most significant thing for me was the ability to shoot standing beside each other and not be deafened by the blast (ive shot some nasty side baffle brakes though they felt to be extremely effective at reducing recoil and jump).
 
guntech said:
I have done literally several hundreds of brakes since 1968... I am in Brentwood Bay just outside of Victoria.

This has been a favourite on hunting rifles... holes are angled slightly forward...

On a very light weight barrel
thinbarrelbrake2-0.jpg

brake-crown.jpg


PM me for details...
Click to expand...

Dennis has done 2 brakes for me this year and I have been very happy with his work and the effectiveness of the brake.
 
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