Question about muzzle breaks

This turned out to be a very entertaining thread but it felt like a threat to some. Some of the comments on this and other threads have to be read with your SOUNDEX (phonetic algorithm) turned on.
 
Aside from all the grammer concerns, there are two camps when it comes to muzzle brakes, one camp enjoys the reduced recoil, especially if shooting a lot, and finds them to be of great value. The other camp finds them to be excessively noisy, especially when used on a large bore large cartridge rifle. I fall in the latter camp, I would suggest trying one before you get one, so you find out which camp you fall into to. If you take a 338 win mag with a muzzle brake hunting, and shoot it with your earmuffs off, you will know what I mean.
 
guntech said:
It's a brake not a break, and it has no effect on velocity.
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Dennis I have a question.

I agree that adding a 3" long brake to a rifle barrel will not effect the velocity but, if you have an unported barrel Magnaported, will that not reduce the velocity as if the barrel was shortened behind the vents? I should know the answer to this as I used to shoot a Magnaported Sako in .300 Winchester, but I never shot it across a chronograph.
 
Boomer said:
Dennis I have a question.

I agree that adding a 3" long brake to a rifle barrel will not effect the velocity but, if you have an unported barrel Magnaported, will that not reduce the velocity as if the barrel was shortened behind the vents? I should know the answer to this as I used to shoot a Magnaported Sako in .300 Winchester, but I never shot it across a chronograph.
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Magna porting reduces the velocity very little, less than if you cut the barrel at the rear port.

One might say Magna porting has little effect on velocity or that the velocity has been affected very little by Magna porting. :D
 
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