Muzzle Brake for Benchrest

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I am rebarreling a Savage Mod 12 LRP, new barrel will be a 28" 7.5T Benchmark MTU 11 in 6 Dasher.

I have a few rifles with muzzle brakes and they do not seem to hinder accuracy.

Am I better to put the brake on the Dasher or on a 260 Rem target rifle that I have?

Any down side to braking a target rifle?
 
BCBRAD said:
Any down side to braking a target rifle?
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Only to those beside you at the range... and they should be wearing ear protection anyway...

Accuracy wise - it needs to be precisely installed or they can harm accuracy...

and a PS to this...

the cost and the fact it will not actually increase accuracy... or every short range center fire bench rest shooter would be doing it...
 
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BCBRAD said:
I am rebarreling a Savage Mod 12 LRP, new barrel will be a 28" 7.5T Benchmark MTU 11 in 6 Dasher.

I have a few rifles with muzzle brakes and they do not seem to hinder accuracy.

Am I better to put the brake on the Dasher or on a 260 Rem target rifle that I have?

Any down side to braking a target rifle?
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Depending on the brake design, the noise/gases may be directed back at you and make shooting more louder/uncomfortable.
Some brakes are louder then others to the shooter.
Also shooting may be uncomfortable to those shooting beside you.......and as mentioned, certain types of competitions do not allow muzzle brakes......such as F-Class.
 
BCBRAD said:
I am rebarreling a Savage Mod 12 LRP, new barrel will be a 28" 7.5T Benchmark MTU 11 in 6 Dasher.

I have a few rifles with muzzle brakes and they do not seem to hinder accuracy.

Am I better to put the brake on the Dasher or on a 260 Rem target rifle that I have?

Any down side to braking a target rifle?
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Brad You KNOW more about shooting SCIENCE then prob any one else on here - I'm really surprised of your Question ? :p

LOL :d RJ
 
Aprilia Man said:
But, but barrel will heat up during continuous shooting correct ?



Excessive noise ?
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My experience shooting F-Class is that "excessive noise" and the blast wave disturbs the shooters beside you.
Personally a muzzle brake doesn't bother me, but we get grief from some of the F-Class/Benchrest shooters when we shoot at Mission........
 
Try shooting prone next to a guy with a 300 win mag and a muzzle brake. It is VERY unpleasant. I wont do it again — and will complain if it happens again. If you cant handle the recoil - why should nearby shooters have to share your misery or suffer?
 
Aprilia Man said:
But, but barrel will heat up during continuous shooting correct ?



Excessive noise ?
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Barrels are a living thing , competitors only worry about when to re -barrel not if they have to re-barrel.
Brakes are not allowed in many competitions due to several factors, one being a brake will spray debris and blast right at the competitor beside you as in Fclass or Palma match shooting .
Cat
 
Don't know if you're still looking for comments, but Coretac Solutions makes very good brakes. The benefit to their product is that they thread on but use set screws to tighten on the threaded barrel so can be easily installed/removed to test comparative accuracy and for competitions that don't allow brakes.
 
It's not just a question of "comfort" for other shooters. Reading around on this topic will soon show that muzzle brakes with many full bore centre fire cartridges put out more noise than even doubled up hearing protection (plugs and muffs) can safely abate. For example, here's a good, scientific article measuring the auditory effect of different brakes, on a .308 -- https://precisionrifleblog.com/2015/08/07/muzzle-brakes-sound-test/ Just because double protection is Recommended, doesn't mean it's really Adequate. At the range, I stay as far as I can from the 300 Win Mag with a brake, or the short barrelled tactical 308 that just stepped out of a video game. Personally, I shoot what I can handle.
 
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