stubblejumper

By your own admission you flinched when firing the 300RUM.I don't consider that "handling the recoil".

Colorado Luckydog

I have to agree with glockman55, you know everything smarta$$. People can't post their opinions without you being an arsehole. You remind me of a teenager, and you crack me up. When you don't see me respond, it's because I'm to busy laughing at you!

skeeter 7MM

The use of brake to tame recoil due to shootibility is a personal judgement call. I personally will not use a brake rifle due to the increased noise directed at the shooter and those nearby.For me if I can't shoot it unbraked I simply don't. Again strictly my personal judgement/opinion.

stubblejumper

You should be laughing at yourself for contradicting your own statements in your posts.First you say that you can handle the recoil,then you say that it makes you flinch.You aren't doing yourself any favors with your choice of words.

Colorado Luckydog

I come on here to have fun and to see if I can't learn a little something. You come on here to pick people apart and to show off what you think you know. I don't need to do myself any favors by watching my words, because I'm not out to impress people like you are. You just go ahead and keep it up, I know this is the most important thing in your life, so enjoy it however you like! Smarta$$!

stubblejumper

I come here to share information,learn about new products that I haven't used myself,and perhaps pass on some experience that might help others.However I do find posts such as your amusing when you claim to be able to handle recoil,yet admit that it cause you to flinch.You obviously don't realize just how ridiculous that sounds to myself,and to other people.

bobfm10350

Wow guys this is getting intense may i sugest that we all take it down a notch and just calm down. Theres no need to get all mad at eachother we're all here to learn; everyone has different opinions and every one is just as helpful as the next.
Thanks
-Deric

jeepkid

+1

They are very useful sometimes. I have one on my 7mm Rem Mag, it didn't kick much before, but now its a joy to shoot. And you should wear hearing protection whether your shooting a breaked gun or not, so I don't really see the compliant on noise...

skeeter 7MM

On the range I agree 100% however in the field I don't wear any hearing protection. Since my rifles aren't breaked the noise isn't sent back rearward so the likelyhood of a single shot in a unconfined space damaging my hearing is significantly less then thatof abraked rifle. If my rifle were braked i wouldwear hearing protection always. I hunt with a guy who suffered hearing loss from 1 shot fired from his braked rifle while moose hunting (his brother who was nearby also suffered hearing loss). Unfortunately for both these gentlemen the loss was not temp. either!

eldeguello

I never installed a brake yet. I can "handle" my 7.5-pound .45/70 with a load that generates over 2200 FPS with a 400-grain bullet, but I don't LIKE to! I have considered a brake for that rifle. But I am not sure just how much recoil I'd lose, because the majority of that recoil comes from the weight of the bullet, not the jet effect of the gases at the muzzle. I have a .416 Rigby that had a brake on it when I bought it, and I have left it there. But it makes the rifle less handy, for sure. Don't know what it'd feel like without the brake!