Re: A Better muzzle brake for AWSM 338?
I consider ours to be among the best.
Now i'm not trying to sell anything in saying that, ive got a fair amount of fact to back that statement up.
We have been conducting a scientific study into Muzzlebrake design & manufacture in conjunction with the Technical Highschool / University of Osnabrück, We've had a professor and a student plus some helpers working on this as a diploma study module for about 6 months. In that time we've tested every brake we could get our hands on, and also a whole bunch of designs we manufactured our selves. We have the final test stage this Thursday.
Some of the brakes did next to naff all (excuse the scientific term) in the way of reducing recoil, some where load as hell, some where a balance between the two.
Ive personaly come to the conclusion that a hell of a lot of the brakes aren't actualy based on any scientific data, they are just made on the assumpütion that they will sort of work, many do, some dont.
We used to make 3 baffle brakes, we binned that idea as the tests showed that the 3rd chamber was as good as redundant.
Ive got some brakes on thier way over to Lowlight for a SH test session and i'm sure he will post something up about that.
To answer your question nolo, our brakes are very very effective (there are a fair few guys on SH that can attest to that) they are also loud, its not so bad at all if your the firer, but for guys left and right, they are in the blast wave.
We are working on a design that is as effective but contains the blast percussion, sort of like a small suppressor that isn't a suppressor.
Talking of suppressors, the diploma study on Muzlebrakes winds up at the end of July and the continuation, which is the same thing, but with the subject bieng suppressors.
Pete