Just ordered new Tikka CTR 24 inch threaded bbl cal 223. The barrel is threaded 5/8 x24. Will the Gamma vg6 65 bbss do a good job even though it has a 6.5mm hole????? I do not like the muzzle brake that Tikka recommends.
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Just ordered new Tikka CTR 24 inch threaded bbl cal 223. The barrel is threaded 5/8 x24. Will the Gamma vg6 65 bbss do a good job even though it has a 6.5mm hole????? I do not like the muzzle brake that Tikka recommends.
what is a 6mm straight jacket armory shot caller?A 6.5 brake will work fine. The larger the hole the less effective the brake will be. That said a 223 has very little to recoil begin with. A 6mm straight jacket armory shot caller is what I prefer on my 223 rifles.
what is a 6mm straight jacket armory shot caller?
cannot find a 5/8x24 muzzle break with a 224 hole except for the ugly mother that tikka is trying to sellzWould you put on size 13 shoes if you wore size 10 and expect the same results?
Get the right tool for the job and get the best results.
cannot find a 5/8x24 muzzle break with a 224 hole except for the ugly mother that tikka is trying to sell
cannot find a 5/8x24 muzzle break with a 224 hole except for the ugly mother that tikka is trying to sell
The larger the hole the less effective the brake will be.
I’m not a engineer but that’s what I was told by Josh at Patriot Valley arms.How so?
I’m not a engineer but that’s what I was told by Josh at Patriot Valley arms.
Harman 117, thank you for the research. As you advise I will proceed with the Gamma in 6.5. A 1-3 % difference is insignificant and the extra $100 could be better spent on a scope.The precision rifle blog posted some of his collected data on muzzle brakes.
Muzzle Brake: Summary of Field Test Results
This post summarizes the eye-opening results for the massive muzzle brake field test I’ve worked on ...precisionrifleblog.com
If you scroll down a bit he only recorded a 1-3% difference in recoil between using a caliber specific brake vs a larger caliber one.
This has been the only "data" I've seen on this subject (I didn't look hard)
You can go ahead and use that Gamma brake and you'll be fine. I wouldn't spend another ~$100 for a caliber specific brake.
Harman 117, thank you for the research. As you advise I will proceed with the Gamma in 6.5. A 1-3 % difference is insignificant and the extra $100 could be better spent on a scope.
Maybe Athlon 6x24x50 Midas tacNo problem, all I did was link someone else's work!
Note: That 1-3% figure is his results for the calibers and rifles he tested, not absolute across the board for other rifles/calibers. (But it still suggests that the improvement of a caliber specific brake is very small) It would be cool if they did make a .224 Gamma brake in that thread size. You could do a blind test yourself and see if you could concern any differences.
*And good choice increasing scope budget. Which scope are you thinking?
I could be totally wrong but what I understand it as is perceived volume. I notice it the most when listening to music; at night what sounds loud to me is a lower volume than what feels like the same loud if I listen to music during the day. Best explanation I can come up with is that during the day you are generally subjected to more/louder sounds so your ears are less sensitive (similar to smell, the longer you are around it eventually you stop being able to smell it), versus during the night your environment is quieter and what sounds there are are generally softer, so your ears become more sensitive and thus a sound is perceived as louder than what it would be during the dayAny theories as to why it was louder when shooting during the day vs night time shooting? That’s the first time I’ve heard of that.