Re: Muzzle brake help
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: mohawk3A</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Looking for advice on the best muzzle brake to put on my pecision rifle. I'm most concerned with accuracy first, recoil reduction second. It will be for a 6x47 lapua, 6.5 necked down. I really like the surefire adapter/brake. I would probably have to get the 5.56 surefire and have my smith modify it since they don't offer one for a 6mm. Please share you experiences with brakes on precision rifles. I have only tried the surefire, and I could use some help. Thanks </div></div>
If you interested in accuracy only, don't get a muzzle brake, it really does little in enhancing it. Putting a brake on your rifle is really for recoil reduction, and does help in seeing your follow-on shots (not losing sight picture, et al). Accuracy of the all important first shot does NOT get better with a brake, and may get worse, depending of course on the gun smith/butcher chosen to install/thread it.
Of course if your very recoil sensitive, shoot a hard kicker and/or prone to flinching with anything that goes bang, then the recoil reduction properties of a muzzle brake can be valuable, for some.
Some smith's do an excellent job on trouble free installation, and many of those can be found around this joint, oddly enough.
IMHO,
Bob