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Muzzle Brake and Scope Movement
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<blockquote data-quote="bailey1474" data-source="post: 79437" data-attributes="member: 3249"><p>Found this little tid bit on Lilja's website. Hope it helps. It is basically what Kirby is saying.</p><p></p><p></p><p> <em>Eric Williams, the former editor of the Fifty Caliber Shooters Association's magazine VERY HIGH POWER, reports on another potential problem with scopes on muzzle braked rifles. According to Eric some of the brakes on today's fifties are so efficient that for a moment they are actually pulling the rifle forward. It is a very brief but forceful jolt and it seems as though it puts the scope into a kind of reverse recoil situation. Some of the target type scopes are not designed to take this forward thrust and soon develop loose parts inside. Eric did say that the Leupold Mark 4 seems to hold up, at least so far. It was Eric's fifty, with a Mark 4 on top, we used to shoot the tank hull at 2000 meters. This rifle had one of the type of brakes on it that can cause the forward thrust I mentioned. The scope seemed to be working just fine for me and it takes a lot of clicking to get on at 2000 meters.</em></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="bailey1474, post: 79437, member: 3249"] Found this little tid bit on Lilja's website. Hope it helps. It is basically what Kirby is saying. [i]Eric Williams, the former editor of the Fifty Caliber Shooters Association's magazine VERY HIGH POWER, reports on another potential problem with scopes on muzzle braked rifles. According to Eric some of the brakes on today's fifties are so efficient that for a moment they are actually pulling the rifle forward. It is a very brief but forceful jolt and it seems as though it puts the scope into a kind of reverse recoil situation. Some of the target type scopes are not designed to take this forward thrust and soon develop loose parts inside. Eric did say that the Leupold Mark 4 seems to hold up, at least so far. It was Eric's fifty, with a Mark 4 on top, we used to shoot the tank hull at 2000 meters. This rifle had one of the type of brakes on it that can cause the forward thrust I mentioned. The scope seemed to be working just fine for me and it takes a lot of clicking to get on at 2000 meters.[/i] [/QUOTE]
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