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Can switching muzzle brakes change muzzle velocity??
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<blockquote data-quote="WildRose" data-source="post: 1232080" data-attributes="member: 30902"><p>Engineering can only do so much when you have that volume of powder burning and exiting a .338 hole HA!</p><p></p><p>As for perceived noise its all about how the shooter perceives it. Think about a megaphone, it doesnt make your voice any louder or more quiet, it simply directs all of it at a narrow angle to the front so that someone standing right behind you will not hear the same volume of noise someone out in front of you will.</p><p></p><p>The way brakes channel gasses directionally is the same way in which they project noise.</p><p></p><p>Unfortunately the brakes that direct the most of the blast to the rear are those that will have the sharpest rapport to the shooter and with the big boomers the blast wave can really be physically punishing.</p><p></p><p>Theres going to be a trade off between noise and recoil reduction (again as the shooter perceives them) and those that are easiest on the shooter are going to be pretty nasty for anyone out to their sides.</p><p></p><p>Having shot dozens of different designs of MBs over the years and the best ones Ive tried rely on multiple ports of different sizes and slightly different angles on the ports such that the rear port somewhat cancels out the blast from the ports in front of it by being larger and angled slightly forward while the rest are angled slightly backward and smaller.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="WildRose, post: 1232080, member: 30902"] Engineering can only do so much when you have that volume of powder burning and exiting a .338 hole HA! As for perceived noise its all about how the shooter perceives it. Think about a megaphone, it doesnt make your voice any louder or more quiet, it simply directs all of it at a narrow angle to the front so that someone standing right behind you will not hear the same volume of noise someone out in front of you will. The way brakes channel gasses directionally is the same way in which they project noise. Unfortunately the brakes that direct the most of the blast to the rear are those that will have the sharpest rapport to the shooter and with the big boomers the blast wave can really be physically punishing. Theres going to be a trade off between noise and recoil reduction (again as the shooter perceives them) and those that are easiest on the shooter are going to be pretty nasty for anyone out to their sides. Having shot dozens of different designs of MBs over the years and the best ones Ive tried rely on multiple ports of different sizes and slightly different angles on the ports such that the rear port somewhat cancels out the blast from the ports in front of it by being larger and angled slightly forward while the rest are angled slightly backward and smaller. [/QUOTE]
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