Ways to lower felt recoil/ recoil impulse?

RogyBear

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Hey everyone, doing some research on how to reduce the felt recoil and recoil impulse on an AR. I'm looking at making a top preforming AR for quick precise follow up shots. The. 223/5.56 does not bother me by any means I'm just want top performance.

From what I've read there's two main ways other than the typical muzzle break. 1.lightweight bolt carrier with adj gas system and lighter buffer and spring. 2. Heavier bolt carrier along with heavier buffer and spring.

I'm going towards the lightweight option, as I already have an adjustable gas block and a lighter buffer.

Just looking at everyone's take and opinions on what the best route for reducing or nullifying recoil. Also I know one route is much cheaper then the other but I'm just looking for performance, cost isn't an issue.

Thanks for your time
 
If you go the lighter route, you can build up a light ammo that is enough to cycle reliably, check out the JP silent captured spring system with lighter spring along with a lightweight BC with a good barrel comp.
 
Rifle length gas system, brake, adj. gas block, light weight BCG, JP silent captured spring. Lightweight, reduces reciprocating mass. After that, custom light loads, but then you are really tuning things and may have reliability issues. Unless, you are so good, that shaving those few milliseconds off your follow-up shots matters that much, a balance between a more versatile and reliable system, might serve you better.
 
brake and rifle length system will give you the best results
there are actually 2 recoils in an AR: the actual shot, then the bcg cycling and hitting back.
 
I have a 14.5 rifle with a mid length gas system so can't do much about going to a rifle length for now. But as for the buffer and springs the jp does sound nice but other than cutting the sound down on cycling what would the difference be from just using a lighter spring with a light buffer?
 
RogyBear said:
I have a 14.5 rifle with a mid length gas system so can't do much about going to a rifle length for now. But as for the buffer and springs the jp does sound nice but other than cutting the sound down on cycling what would the difference be from just using a lighter spring with a light buffer?
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Its not just about the strength of the spring, but also how the spring reacts. The JP captured buffer system is really good, it helps guide the bcg in a smooth straight back without any variance, noise comes from friction, impact and torsion of the spring, all that noise is essentially energy, if you reduce that energy in a smooth controlled manner it will reduce recoil. I run it on all my ARs, yes it's expensive but in my opinion it is well worth it.
Even just the JP spring would make a difference as well.
 
I have a JP captured spring and a PWS muzzlebrakes on my 308 LMT MWS and it honestly feels like the recoil of my 10.5" stock Norinco AR15.

That combination is also available for regular AR15s. I would imagine that the felt recoil would be insignificant (not that the 5.56 is a brute)
 
Dietz said:
Maxipad.
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I'm not complaining about the recoil of the. 223/5.56 by any means, I just want the utmost performance out of the rifle. Like putting a racing suspension on a sports car, the ride isn't bad to begin with but it will handle better and be better when pushed to its limits.
 
I have one of these
http://www.enidine-defense.com/Products/Recoil-Buffers-and-Recoil-Reduction-Products/
and it transforms my already smooth 12 inch AR into what feels pretty much like shooting my dedicated 22LR AR. Combine that with a quality brake like my JP two chamber brake and there is pretty much nothing left to knock the sights off target.
I've heard some negative feedback about these buffers but I've never had an issue with one.

Good luck
 
If by top performing you mean accuracy then you started off with the wrong gun.

But if you mean quick follow up and repeatble shot , then ya do all of the above
 
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