Muzzle break and POI shift or groups opening up ...

It happens. Anytime you put something on the muzzle that wasn't there before it can negatively affect things. I've had it happen a couple times with a .308 brake and a .223 brake. The solution was to swap out brakes for something else.
 
Poi change is common once you add one but the groups usually dont change for me on any of my rigs that have a brake( all 8 rifles I have, have one), honestly for me its more getting used to the xtra noise they make but thats my take on adding a Brake'

-Reagan
 
Never had a POI shift or groups open up due to a muzzle device that was not a suppressor. Even then I've only had POI shift suppressed, never had group open up. Even the Magnetospeed only had a marginal POI shift with no "apparent" change in group size.