Most recoil is actually quite tollerable until you get into large magnums and if it hurts a little there are about a dozen things a shooter can do before installing a brake and tame the recoil quite well. Such as not buying that 6 pound super dooper mega magnumin the first place, or a recoil pad, or a mercury recoil reducer, or proper stock fit.

Muzzle blast and noise will cause flinching far quicker than the actual recoil of a rifle.

I absolutely HATE sitting down at the bench and get all settled in andshooting goodand them someone yahoo with a braked rifle sits next to me and starts banging away. If I can I will get up and move so his sissy shoulder and rifle don't blow out my dang ear drums and I can actually enjoy shooting my rifles. I actually begin to flinch when someone is shooting next to me with a braked rifle. Usually they fire right when mysear is about to break.

Tryshooting next to someone with a braked 300RUM and tell me how pleasent it is to be shooting next to them. I mean really shooting to get the best accuracy out of a rifle. Breathing techniques, slow and steady squeeze ofthe trigger, pulling tight into your shoulder and holding rock steady and then "BANG"........you get the muzzleblast that you can actually feeland deafening noise from that braked 300RUM.


Shooting ranges need seaperate benches for those that want to shoot rifles with brakes so they all can mess upeach othershearing and not mine.


The only guns that need a brake arethose that will actually cause physical harm if you shoot them with out one.