LDHunter
Well-Known Member
Frankly I am quite perplexed about all the people on here that seem to think that recoil reduction necessitates a muzzle brake.
In the real world any and all muzzle brakes WILL damage your hearing permanently. Speaking as someone that can't hear very well even with quality hearing aids I can testify to the damage that shooting firearms with or without muzzle brakes WILL do to your hearing. It's subtle... You don't think there is any damage being done until one day your wife starts yelling to turn the dang TV down because she can't hear herself think.
Hearing loss is very hard to spot until it's bad and then it's simply too late.
Here's been my recoil fix for the past few years. First and foremost almost all my rifles that have any chance of causing noticeable recoil get good quality stocks. I have a few Remington Custom Shop rifles with McMillan "Kevlar"stocks which in reality didn't have all that much Kevlar in them but due to a GREAT design they absorb a lot of the perceived recoil and were pretty light. I know that these days there are a lot of other great stocks as well. Then I also added Pachmayr Decelerator® Slip-On Recoil Pads on top of the factory recoil pads. I have a long pull so on most of my stocks that just brought me right where I wanted to be in pull.
VOILA!!! Greatly reduced perceived recoil and I didn't have to increase the damage to my hearing and the people around me to do it.
I also simply stay away from rifles chambered in extreme shoulder pounding cartridges these days. They simply aren't worth it to me.
One more solution that we all probably need to look at is suppressors. I don't own one yet but not only do they greatly reduce muzzle blast even with the big magnums but they do provide a certain amount of recoil reduction as well and any little bit helps.
In the real world any and all muzzle brakes WILL damage your hearing permanently. Speaking as someone that can't hear very well even with quality hearing aids I can testify to the damage that shooting firearms with or without muzzle brakes WILL do to your hearing. It's subtle... You don't think there is any damage being done until one day your wife starts yelling to turn the dang TV down because she can't hear herself think.
Hearing loss is very hard to spot until it's bad and then it's simply too late.
Here's been my recoil fix for the past few years. First and foremost almost all my rifles that have any chance of causing noticeable recoil get good quality stocks. I have a few Remington Custom Shop rifles with McMillan "Kevlar"stocks which in reality didn't have all that much Kevlar in them but due to a GREAT design they absorb a lot of the perceived recoil and were pretty light. I know that these days there are a lot of other great stocks as well. Then I also added Pachmayr Decelerator® Slip-On Recoil Pads on top of the factory recoil pads. I have a long pull so on most of my stocks that just brought me right where I wanted to be in pull.
VOILA!!! Greatly reduced perceived recoil and I didn't have to increase the damage to my hearing and the people around me to do it.
I also simply stay away from rifles chambered in extreme shoulder pounding cartridges these days. They simply aren't worth it to me.
One more solution that we all probably need to look at is suppressors. I don't own one yet but not only do they greatly reduce muzzle blast even with the big magnums but they do provide a certain amount of recoil reduction as well and any little bit helps.