[stinger 327]

If you have one of these screwed into barrel will it reduce recoil and will the scope sights have to be readjusted?:confused:

[Uncle Mike]

Yes....and yes!

[scythefwd]

Uncle Mike, I thought a muzzle brake just redirected exhaust gas after the bullet leaves the barrel. I would expect poi to be the same, unless you had to cut the barrel to install it. Same with a flash suppressor/hider/compensator. What am I missing on this?

[briansmithwins]

Uncle Mike, I thought a muzzle brake just redirected exhaust gas after the bullet leaves the barrel. I would expect poi to be the same, unless you had to cut the barrel to install it. Same with a flash suppressor/hider/compensator. What am I missing on this?

A brake does change the flow of gas after it leaves the muzzle. Some of that gas may reflect back off the brake and influence the bullet. You've also hung a weight off the end of the barrel which can change the way barrel responds to being fired. BSW

Same rifle, 3 different muzzle devices:

Brake.
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y3/briansmithwins/brake.jpg

Thread protector.
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y3/briansmithwins/threadprotector.jpg

Flash hider.
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y3/briansmithwins/flashhider.jpg

[scythefwd]

BSW - wow, that is enlightening. Thanks

[ArmedBear]

Basically, anything you do to a rifle except, perhaps, for changing the recoil pad, changes POI.:)

The same goes for the load you shoot in it.

[stinger 327]

So in other words sight in rifle after you have put on this type of accessory:D

[ArmedBear]

Sight in your rifle when the weather changes, when you sneeze, after a local election...

[stinger 327]

:neener: