Muzzle brake accuracy?

[MT257]

I recently put a radial brake on my 300 win mag. I am just curious with enough shots does the brake itself need to be taken off to be cleaned? Will a dirty brake affect accuracy? If it needs to be cleaned what's the best way to do so?

 

[snox801]

So it takes forever to get them to dirty. When you see a good amount of carbon built up. Just use some boretech carbon remover. I use it on mine and my crown when I'm cleaning at the end of the year.

 

[snox801]

But that being said you don't need to clean it very often. In fact I've never had to clean one for accuracy I just do it after cleaning.

 

[rsmithsr]

EVERY NOW AND THEN
take it off and soak in a carbon cleaner, clean the face of the muzzle at the same time.

 

[jasonco]

Cleaning the brake, not so often, but carbon can/will build up significantly at muzzle, with a brake, and it affects accuracy. My brakes are stainless and clean up real easy just soaking in a cup of baking soda & water.

 

[DavidleeCole]

I never take mine off might disturb its timing and not get it back to the same place. Also things unscrewd and screwed loose there tightness after a few times. I just wipe mine off when clean my gun. Works for me. KISS is the method for me I hate touching a good thing and watching it turn bad.

 

[Okanogan]

I haven't ever taken mine off for cleaning purposes. I figure that if I don't have to clean a centerfire rifle suppressor because the muzzle blast is supposed to keep it from fouling, then something similar likely applies to my muzzle brakes. On the brakes with large vertical slots on the side, I do try to pass something through and clean and dry, but it is mostly because the solvent and powder I push into the brake while cleaning has a tendency to keep fouling my patches. This makes it harder for me to tell when the bore is clean.
I'm not saying taking the brake off to clean it and the muzzle would be bad, I just haven't notice any ill effects from not doing it.

 

[Mram10us]

Side port brakes are easy. A qtip and some carbon remover make easy work. No removal needed.

 

[Flintlock shooter]

Set your rifle barrel down in a small glass container and support the stock end. Pour CLR in the container until it just covers the ports. Leave it over night and just rinse the next morning.

 

[BKM]

Fill a medicine bottle full of Boretech C4 and let ur radial brakes soak over night.
A little larger container is necessary for tactical brakes.
After removing, run hot water over and through the brake then dry it.
It will look like new.
Screw the cap on the container and reuse it as many times as u want.
I clean my brakes every time i clean the bore.

 

[Slibey]

Have to take my brake off, mine ram rod to short, but do cleen it at the same time

 

[Varmint Hunter]

Whatever you do, don't put your brake in a SS pin tumbler. The brake will come out squeaky clean but the threads can be altered enough to prevent it from screwing back onto the barrel.

Guess how I know.

 

[MT257]

Whatever you do, don't put your brake in a SS pin tumbler. The brake will come out squeaky clean but the threads can be altered enough to prevent it from screwing back onto the barrel.

Guess how I know.

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