FOLF wrote:I know that muzzle brakes redirect energy back towards the shooter to reduce recoil and this increases the apparent noise for the shooter. I know that muzzle brakes do not reduce overall noise, but if they are redirecting energy and noise back towards the shooter then do they reduce noise out near the target?
I am a farmer shooting roos in fairly open country using a 223. It seems to me that it would help to reduce as much noise as possible around the roos so that they stand longer and aren't disturbed as much when I shoot. I am not a professional shooter and need all the help I can get! I don't know if a muzzle brake would make any difference, but this seemed like the place to ask.
Also, am I correct to assume that muzzle brakes are not prohibited in NSW?
tim.laher wrote:Never considered until now that muzzle breaks make it louder for the shooter. Makes me rethink ever getting a muzzle break now.
Latitude37 wrote:I've heard that if you set up a pair of boards angled back towards you, then shoot through the gap between, can seriously reduce the report down range, and make if more difficult to pick the direction it's coming from. Think of an arrow head, your prime position is the shaft, don't put the muzzle in front of the "point". -->
straightshooter wrote:There is a problem with most of these schemes.
First part is the muzzle brake. Forget about all the sales pitches, if they were even 10% effective in truly reducing recoil I would be pleasantly surprised. Although I can accept that in some cases that might be enough to reduce recoil from unbearable to bearable. I base my opinion on a careful examination of the physics of a firing event but if anybody prefers to believe in some other kind of magic then that is their prerogative.
The second part is we are talking about supersonic projectiles. The muzzle blast with or without a muzzle brake is quite loud at the firing point but it diminishes as the distance from the firing point increases. At a distance it can be somewhat muffled and in hilly forresty country it can be hard to pinpoint the source. However the sonic crack of of a supersonic projectile is equally loud anywhere along it's trajectory only diminishing as it's velocity slows and enters the transsonic/subsonic velocities. Anybody who has ever done any target marking at a fullbore range will immediately understand.