Thread: Tigr 7,62x54R rifles

Look at the first really recognised use of a Flash Eliminator – one on the .303 No. 5 [Jungle Carbine, as it is often called]. It is a solid cone and deflects the flash away from the shooter. It is not a flash hider!

Muzzle breaks have all manner of holes and slots – many actually divert the flash back toward the shooter.

I test fired a selection of firearms in Russia and one of them , a VEPR had a new muzzle break on it – I had been shooting without ear protection and finding the report quite acceptable [have gunner’s ear from my military days anyway] but when I fired the VEPR, it was like getting hit by Henry Cooper in the left ear-hole! The muzzle break on the VEPR directed a huge amount of the report back at the shooter.

Anyway, it was a stupid rule, thought up by simple people to try to limit access to military firearms in the mistaken belief that somehow, military firearms will kill more people than sporting firearms. They miss the whole concept that people kill people, not the firearm. Same rationale as the stupid reporters who go nuts over how many firearms a person has in a cache – “He has over 30 firearms hoarded in his house!”. So!?? How many can he fire at a time? It maybe a different matter if he handed out 30 firearms to some gang and they all shot as some small militia. But sadly, I know of no way that one trigger finger can fire 30 firearms – I’m working on it though.