Thread: Keeping the 7mm ahead of the 30 cal?

Surprise, surprise, nothing from Kiwi Greg and Donald (terminator). Quite prepared to throw innuendo and school yard rumours around but not prepared to back it up when asked to or check the truth behind what they’re insinuating before having a go.

Now that I’ve been home from the bush a couple of days and caught up, here’s the goss for those that have only heard one side of the story, and for those that are wondering what the hell KG is going on about.

Here’s the background. We have made our own non directional brakes for at least 15 years now, as evidenced by many pics in my magazine articles etc over the years. Yes, they were basically copies of the popular at the time in the USA radial and axial ported brakes typified by the Vais type brake, as are many others radial type brakes. Then, about 3 years ago a NZ gunsmith got his local CNC outfit to start making some radial brakes, which were also basically a copy of the Vais type. We got him to make some in our thread sizes for us as it was convenient, due to the numbers we were starting to use. Then he started having problems getting his local CNC outfit to make them when we needed, so we approached a local CNC outfit here in Napier to make some back on our old design in some sizes we were short of, and we now have them making our bigger 90 degree ported directional brakes as well. We are still fitting some of his NZ made brakes, as well as our ones made locally, as well as the angled port Stainless Steel and 7000 series alloy brakes we still make ourselves.

As all brakes are just reinventions of brake ideas that have been around for ages now, it is pretty rich for someone to claim their improved version of someone else’s brake is a completely new idea, whereas others are just blatant copies. That is just laughable! Not that we copied the NZ made brakes anyway as we can clearly show ours are the same as our original ones and we were making them long before he was. As for this BS about legal avenues etc…what a bloody joke! It would get laughed out of court! If anyone has a grievance, it would be the person who originally built the first radial and axial ported brake in the US, and I wouldn’t be surprised to find that wasn’t even George Vais!

No smileys this time, I have done my best to get on with you both and wish you well with your various ventures. You guys need to get a life…
Greg