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I been reading various views on using a muzzle brake on bolt guns. I wonder if that is done often with doubles. I assume the bbls would be ported or machined as screwing a brake on would not work. Or could it? Is that done? When one chooses to hunt or shoot a double is the choice made in more to be traditional or is primarily performance motivated? | ||
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I personally have only seen one double that was ported. I can't remember the caliber. The rifle was at Champlin's. It had been Magnaported. It most certainly was different! Rusty We Band of Brothers! DRSS, NRA & SCI Life Member "I am rejoiced at my fate. Do not be uneasy about me, for I am with my friends." ----- David Crockett in his last letter (to his children), January 9th, 1836 "I will never forsake Texas and her cause. I am her son." ----- Jose Antonio Navarro, from Mexican Prison in 1841 "for I have sworn upon the altar of god eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man." Thomas Jefferson Declaration of Arbroath April 6, 1320-“. . .It is not for glory, nor riches, nor honours that we are fighting, but for freedom - for that alone, which no honest man gives up but with life itself.” | |||
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Didn't Krieghoff offer a braked version in the '80s or '90s? I guess I need to check an old Shooters' Bible. It certainly had a different look. ------------------------------- Some Pictures from Namibia Some Pictures from Zimbabwe An Elephant Story | |||
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The whole idea of a brake is to modify the recoil, by modifying the muzzle flip! This is not a good idea on a double rifle, for the simple reason the rifle depends on that muzzle flip to shoot to regulation! IMO, unless you are shooting a 4 bore single shot, there is no need for a muzzle brake. Those things are spawn of the devil, on any rifle, but certainly do not belong on a double rifle!  ....Mac >>>===(x)===> MacD37, ...and DUGABOY1 DRSS Charter member "If I die today, I've had a life well spent, for I've been to see the Elephant, and smelled the smoke of Africa!"~ME 1982 Hands of Old Elmer Keith  | |||
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I have no aversion to to muzzle brakes, I just rebarreled my mauser to 375 H&H and put one on. That being said, If I ever have the good fortune to own a double rifle it will not have a brake. Some traditions are inviolate. I don't shoot inline muzzleloaders either. | |||
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A company called Answer Rifles used to have an agreement with Kreighoff to install Answer Rifles' patended brake. After Answer's founder sold the company to other guys the company survived about 18 months then folded if I am remembering correctly. Jack OH GOD! {Seriously, we need the help.} | |||
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Don't do it especially to a double rifle, use lead, mercury basically anything to add a pound if you need to which will curb up to 10% of the recoil. It's also a sure guarantee that a muzzle brake will devalue any DR. "An individual with experience is never at the mercies of an individual with an argument" | |||
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Mac and dirk are right. this is just an abomination. | |||
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If you need a muzzle brake on a double you are holding incorrectly and not managing the recoil correctly... If you are that sensative then get a lighter recoiling chambering... Maybe add some weight to rifle... Hold it tighter... Mike | |||
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Please don't put a muzzle brake on a double. That would just be sooooooo wrong.  On the other hand it's you rifle and we used to be a free country so you can do what you want. Heck you can even shoot the back trigger first if you want to ! On the other hand if you put a brake on a double don't show it to me I might get the vapors and pass out. If you own a gun and you are not a member of the NRA and other pro 2nd amendment organizations then YOU are part of the problem. | |||
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Muzzle breaks are an Abomination before the Lord on ANY rifle intended for hunting dangerous game. Since doubles are best suited for hunting dangerous game.... | |||
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+1. It's a long time since I fired a double. Last one was thirty years ago. A Holland and Holland 470. The recoil felt no more or less than a 303 or 308 with the heavier weight bullets. Or...the rifle is badly stocked. | |||
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Absolutely, and not only that, a muzzle brake on a double rifle will destroy the regulation unless the rifle is regulated with the brakes in place. I'm not talking about working up a load, as most call regulating, but adjusting the wedges between the barrels while the rifle is being built! For a double that is already built, adding brakes to the barrels will destroy the regulation so that it would have the be re-regulated by de-soldering, moveing the wedges, and re-soldering, and re-finishing the barrels.  Besides that the damn things are not only ugly as hell, but noisy to boot! ....Mac >>>===(x)===> MacD37, ...and DUGABOY1 DRSS Charter member "If I die today, I've had a life well spent, for I've been to see the Elephant, and smelled the smoke of Africa!"~ME 1982 Hands of Old Elmer Keith | |||
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