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How loud are brakes, to the shooter, in a hunting situation, in the woods?
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<blockquote data-quote="Rich Coyle" data-source="post: 1341831" data-attributes="member: 70559"><p><strong><span style="font-size: 15px"><a href="http://www.longrangehunting.com/members/aspenbugle.6481/" target="_blank">aspenbugle</a>,</span></strong></p><p><strong><span style="font-size: 15px"></span></strong></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px">Your whole post should be irrelevant. All shooters need to be mature enough not to be "open minded" but to use electronic hearing protection when hunting just like they get in the car and put on a seat belt. Years before seat belts and motorcycle helmets became legally required I used both.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px">Back to the muzzle brakes discussion: One of my rifles is .375-.416 Rem Mag. It uses 98 grains of RL22 behind a 300 grain bullet. There is a brake on it with rearward facing ports. One time I decided to run a test. My brother and dad who are not hunters and my uncle who is a hunter happened to be at my house. We were under a canopy of oak trees. None of them had any idea what a brake is for. I asked them to tell me which shot is louder of two shots. Dad was about fifty feet behind me sitting in front of the garage with the door closed. Uncle was about half way to me and Brother was about ten feet to the side. I suggested he move, but he refused. I fired number one shot with the brake off and one with it on. The muzzle was pointing away from their direction. All three said the shot <strong>without</strong> the brake was louder. Subjective? Yep. Does it prove guns are okay to fire without hearing protection? Absolutely not<strong>!</strong></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Rich Coyle, post: 1341831, member: 70559"] [B][SIZE=4][URL='http://www.longrangehunting.com/members/aspenbugle.6481/']aspenbugle[/URL], [/SIZE][/B] [SIZE=4]Your whole post should be irrelevant. All shooters need to be mature enough not to be "open minded" but to use electronic hearing protection when hunting just like they get in the car and put on a seat belt. Years before seat belts and motorcycle helmets became legally required I used both. Back to the muzzle brakes discussion: One of my rifles is .375-.416 Rem Mag. It uses 98 grains of RL22 behind a 300 grain bullet. There is a brake on it with rearward facing ports. One time I decided to run a test. My brother and dad who are not hunters and my uncle who is a hunter happened to be at my house. We were under a canopy of oak trees. None of them had any idea what a brake is for. I asked them to tell me which shot is louder of two shots. Dad was about fifty feet behind me sitting in front of the garage with the door closed. Uncle was about half way to me and Brother was about ten feet to the side. I suggested he move, but he refused. I fired number one shot with the brake off and one with it on. The muzzle was pointing away from their direction. All three said the shot [B]without[/B] the brake was louder. Subjective? Yep. Does it prove guns are okay to fire without hearing protection? Absolutely not[B]![/B][/SIZE] [/QUOTE]
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