how much muzzle blast is too much?

If you need to regrow your eyebrows after every time you go shooting, the muzzle blast may be a little too much

Personally I like full .357 loads in my 2.25" Ruger SP101 because I know I'll feel better if, in an emergency, I'm not the only person who poops their pants.

If you want a quick definition of too much muzzle blast, stand next to a guy using a Cutts Compensator on the trap range!

I have a .338 Lapua with a muzzle brake... with full reloads it knocks boxes of ammo off the table... from 2 benches away!

First time I fired it I was at an outdoor range in Western PA and it set my car alarm off......

I did have a female acquaintance shoot it, she claimed just pulling the trigger gave her mini-O's....


Oh, and it is 19.5 lbs unloaded.... with the brake on it kicks like a .223

Muzzle blast? What muzzle blast?

September 1995, Okavango Delta, Botswana...

When putting the last (6-yard) shot into a Cape Buffalo with my .416 Remington Magnum fitted with a muzzle brake, I saw out of the corner of my eye my PH as he backed up three steps and put his fingers in both ears (.470 double rifle on his shoulder).

Kind of an awkward position for him to be in if the buf decided to charge!

I guess the rifle was a tad loud.

I love my M44, muzzle blast and all. The recoil reminds you you're shooting a GUN! I thought about buying a recoil pad or something for it, but I never bothered. I'm a recoil junkie, what can I say?

Even with muffs once, my ears rang after shooting my M44. Love it!

If you have to remember to use the restroom before firing your gun to avoid soiling yourself, it may have too much muzzle blast.

I've told people about the AR-50's concussion, but they had to experience it to get the full picture. Seriously thumps you if you are in the wrong place when someone fires it.

Second place goes to the PLR-16 KelTec fitted with the factory muzzle brake. I need plugs and muffs to shoot it without making my head ring.

Too much muzzle blast that all depends on ones tastes and preferences and circumstances its not always a bad thing as I once found out.

A short barreled .30-06 or 7.62x54R can clear away people from couple of feet on either side of you as can a 4" hot loaded .44 Magnum a .480 Ruger Alaskan or a .45-70 Thompson Contender with a hot load.

As long as you don't get the "look mom I got no eyebrows left award" and announce to all around who may be bothered before you discharge its only what you are willing to endure.

On one occasion while me and a few buddies were shooting on a range on BLM land a couple of 100% goobers came up and started doing allot of unsafe things with a pistol gripped Mossberg shotgun and a Taurus 99 9mm Beretta clone.

After not listening to the advice we offered them a couple times about safety and backstops and not shooting or handling weapons when people were downrange my buddies and I all decided to uncase and fire our rifles at the same time come the next firing session.
We had 2 Tanker Garand's in .30-06 an FR 8 .308 Mauser and a Mini 14 with a 30 round mag.
When the firing ended we looked over and they were packing up to leave after which we went back to practice and plinking with our .22s

I've posted this before, but the blast from my 460 mag is horrendous!

It blows apart my reload boxes on the table. Blew up a cheesburger than I had taken and left on the table, it ended up all over the top of my head.

I couldn't at first figure it out what was causing it because the muzzle was way past where stuff was breaking. So to test my theory I set a water bottle about 5" from the cylinder gap, low and behold it blew the water bottle up, decapitated it, and soaked me and the two guys standing on either side of me

I once read a story about a guy that accidentally put his hand under the cylinder gap while firing and blew a hole threw his hand.

What can I say...I LOVE IT!





My 460

HA HA HA HA HA.....no really, what were we talking about? Too much blast? Can't happen, doesn't exist. These are GUNS, for Bob's sake, not McDonalds straws. If there's no boom that reminds you this isn't a pellet gun, you've got something wrong.

If it is really, really bad on your side, think what the other guy is receiving.

if you need to buy a new toupee after each range visit..... too much muzzle blast.

It's not quite as bad as Big Boomer's .460 Mag, but my .44 Mag Model 29 (5" barrel) shoots sheets of fire out the sides from the cylinder gap... ...not to mention a wonderful fireball out the muzzle. The violence of the discharge usually gets people on either side of me for several lanes to stop what they're doing and look over to see what the hell it is. I don't know if it is objectively louder than any of my .308 rifles, but it certainly feels and sounds subjectly louder.

I love it.

If your target gets set on fire, too much muzzle blast..

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Can't happen, doesn't exist

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Beat me to it.

If Al Gore mentions your name in his next global warming video... too much muzzle blast.

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When you lose your eyebrows.

Worst I have experienced is an Encore, 15" pistol in .270 Win with a muzzle break. It clears the tables of any and all surrounding shooters.

Never have too much. Muzzle blast is a great crime deterrent.


-T.

I can't stand my 3.5" Springfield Ultracompact compensated .45 without muffs. It's not the boom, booms don't bother me but it's more like hot icepicks being jabbed into the ears. 95% of the time I use muffs but when I don't my full size .45 is fine as are my .40, 9mm and .22s. This little compensated pistol needs a good home.

I once made a guy shooting a .300Win Mag leave...he said my M-44 "Noisy Magnet" was "Too **** LOUD!

If Al Gore mentions your name in his next global warming video... too much muzzle blast.

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Good one Flak Jakett!