Toons, unfortunately muzzle brakes equal muzzle blast. No way around it. Thats just how thay work. What stock do you have on your Savage? I have a 116 in 300 Win Mag that came with that plastic stock and needless to say the recoil was noticeable. I changed it our for a laminated stock from Richard's Microfit and not only does it look much better, it greatly reduced felt recoil.