Thread: Muzzle Brake Testing

Interesting article series with a shout out to @Kiwi Greg...

This one? Muzzle Brakes: Recoil Primer, Test Equipment & Rifles | PrecisionRifleBlog.com

Originally Posted by zimmer

This one? Muzzle Brakes: Recoil Primer, Test Equipment & Rifles | PrecisionRifleBlog.com

Thats the one, buggered if I know where the link went from my post...

Where is the link to the results?

Looks like he is still munching through the data so no nice tables yet of performance. All Yankee stuff but some brands are recognisable.
Muzzle Brakes: Field Test Overview & Line-Up | PrecisionRifleBlog.com
You probably already got to this link thru the first link......

It will be very interesting to see the results, unfortunately it isn't as independent & unbiased as it could have been.........

Originally Posted by zimmer

Looks like he is still munching through the data so no nice tables yet of performance. All Yankee stuff but some brands are recognisable.
Muzzle Brakes: Field Test Overview & Line-Up | PrecisionRifleBlog.com
You probably already got to this link thru the first link......

Interesting reading the comments at the end of that blog. A couple of commenters mentioned terminator, but reading the replies it seems that brake was excluded at the specific request of American Precision Arms (APA) who make the fat bastard brake. He kind of dances around the subject, but sounds like Terminator may not be on the APA christmas card list....

Originally Posted by Kaimai Views

Interesting reading the comments at the end of that blog. A couple of commenters mentioned terminator, but reading the replies it seems that brake was excluded at the specific request of American Precision Arms (APA) who make the fat bastard brake. He kind of dances around the subject, but sounds like Terminator may not be on the APA christmas card list....

Cal was concerned about how much this line of tests/comparisons was going to cost him.

APA offered to buy his test rig when he was finished with it & help him with the testing as long as another brake manufactures products weren't included in the tests because they were "eerily similar to their design"

Gotta love "independent testing"

That's life in the big city

It would be funny if you could get hold of their brake, test it against yours, and if the result are in your favour posting a video on the web.

Would love to see their green face then

Of course they would argue that the test is flawed because not independently done... You know the music :-)

I reckon the guy did a very good explanation of how recoil works and how it is "properly" measured with his equipment .

Would you say you have revolutionised the muzzlebrake?

Originally Posted by MSL

Would you say you have revolutionised the muzzlebrake?

Well, if you got to read even half of the positive feed back i get from here and overseas you might think so !!

Big call, but i would say i have certainly re-written the book on what results can be expected from a compact, highly efficient muzzle brake design - without having to resort to running really steep port angles like 20 - 30 degrees, or more. On some brakes steep angles can tend to really throw the pressure wave and shrapnel back at or very close to the shooter. (All of my brakes run less than 10 degrees on the port angles.)

For alot of shooters who have never had much to do with really good brakes before it can be a truly amazing experience to be able to fire magnum calibre rifles without having to flinch or winch under punishing recoil. As long as they follow the rules and use adequate hearing protection, then all good.

For me the best feedback is from experienced shooters who have used a ton of different brakes, either in competition use, military, or for hunting use. When you get big kudos from guys like that, then that's awesome.

Just today we are posting another small order of brakes to US military personal stationed in Europe. A megamax brake is also on it's way to a customer in Lithuania.
This morning i got an email from another happy customer in New Mexico with the usual " the brake is awesome...... thanks for everything,,, etc. etc" message, and some pics and video of him shooting it. Great stuff. When you send brakes to the US it is like selling ice to eskimos !



Last week we sent some good orders of brakes to gunsmiths and customers in Aussie, and every week there are brakes going out to someone overseas. In fact i have been so busy with trying to keep up with production, hence i haven't really had to push the brakes much on here, and haven't done any you-tube updates for ages. Though it might be time to do that soon as there have been a few additions to the product line in the last year or so. Cheers.

Dean - have you read Troy Newlons book on the subject?

Originally Posted by dfmaisey

Well, if you got to read even half of the positive feed back i get from here and overseas you might think so !!

Big call, but i would say i have certainly re-written the book on what results can be expected from a compact, highly efficient muzzle brake design - without having to resort to running really steep port angles like 20 - 30 degrees, or more. On some brakes steep angles can tend to really throw the pressure wave and shrapnel back at or very close to the shooter. (All of my brakes run less than 10 degrees on the port angles.)

For alot of shooters who have never had much to do with really good brakes before it can be a truly amazing experience to be able to fire magnum calibre rifles without having to flinch or winch under punishing recoil. As long as they follow the rules and use adequate hearing protection, then all good.

For me the best feedback is from experienced shooters who have used a ton of different brakes, either in competition use, military, or for hunting use. When you get big kudos from guys like that, then that's awesome.

Just today we are posting another small order of brakes to US military personal stationed in Europe. A megamax brake is also on it's way to a customer in Lithuania.
This morning i got an email from another happy customer in New Mexico with the usual " the brake is awesome...... thanks for everything,,, etc. etc" message, and some pics and video of him shooting it. Great stuff. When you send brakes to the US it is like selling ice to eskimos !

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Last week we sent some good orders of brakes to gunsmiths and customers in Aussie, and every week there are brakes going out to someone overseas. In fact i have been so busy with trying to keep up with production, hence i haven't really had to push the brakes much on here, and haven't done any you-tube updates for ages. Though it might be time to do that soon as there have been a few additions to the product line in the last year or so. Cheers.

I have found many 20-30 degree brakes to be much more comfortable to shoot than radial or straight ported ''artillery'' style brakes. Worst ever being a trg brake, I thought my eyes dropped out of my head. And that was only on a .308!

Originally Posted by 338

I have found many 20-30 degree brakes to be much more comfortable to shoot than radial or straight ported ''artillery'' style brakes. Worst ever being a trg brake, I thought my eyes dropped out of my head. And that was only on a .308!

+1 though I haven't shot a TRG brake.