What remained from the culling were four brakes on four comparable rifles: Likewise some gunsmith installed brakes didn’t make the cut like the ARTS gill brake pictured at left below. 338 Lapua Magnum respectively whereas the one in the middle made the cut ( sits on a. This decision meant that a couple of brakes were not included since they are on rifles of harder hitting calibres so the older style PGW brake pictured below on the left and the beastie on the right were not included as they sit on a.
BEST MUZZLE BRAKE FOR 6.5MM CREEDMOOR FREE
( I wish they would – I like free stuff ! )Ĭhoosing the rifles – I wanted to keep the test as much apples to apples as possible so I chose rifles chambered in the 6mm and 6.5 mm category. It was against these benchmarks that I measured the brakes I own – on that note, I own all the brakes and rifles referred to in this article and no person or company has loaned or paid me anything to do this. If you like that kind of stuff them my friend Cal Zant at the Precision Rifle Blog is your man – Cal wrote a brilliant analysis of brakes and his article can be found here: įor the two or three readers left following this article I figure that a brake has to do a few things well: it has to manage felt recoil it cannot be so loud as to be painful it should allow for the shooter to stay on target for follow up shots and it ought not to create a cloud of dust to put a sandstorm to shame. Now is the time to say that I don’t have any science background nor do I possess any scientific measuring tools. I hadn’t used the Heathen before and I was very impressed with it from the very first shot so I thought I would drag out some comparable rifles with other brakes to conduct some tests side by side.
BEST MUZZLE BRAKE FOR 6.5MM CREEDMOOR INSTALL
Over the years I have tried a number of brakes and I’ve found that generally I have a preference for those easily removed for cleaning rater than the gunsmith installed ones and so when Insite Arms of Alberta were building my new custom in 6xc I asked that they install one of their user-removable ‘Heathen’ brakes. In fact a check shows that outside of milsurp collection only my F-Class match rifles and a M40A1 clone remain un-braked. If I lived in the USA I would probably fit suppressors which reduce recoil and moderate sound ) to many of my rifles but in Canada and in the name of ‘public safety’ our political masters have decreed that all sound moderation devices are a threat to national security or some such other nonsense and so, even unlike such gun-unfriendly places as the UK, suppressors are a prohibited item which means that I double up on hearing protection and fit brakes to nearly all my rifles. I’ve also observed that recoil also has the potential to induce the dreaded flinch in newer shooters which is an affliction that, like the ‘yips’ in golf, once acquired is hard to break. 303 in the days before muzzle breaks were even invented and I accept it is a fact of physics, recoil nevertheless – at least for me – is detrimental to down range accuracy. Though I learned to shoot on a Lee-Enfield. Like many – probably more than care to admit – I am not a fan of recoil.
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