About Muzzle Brakes & Cleaning.........

[45 long]

I just recently bought a Witt clamp on muzzle brake & have a question.
Just before I mounted the brake I did a deep copper cleaning, and it got pretty messy. All kinds of blue liquid pouring out of the muzzle. Question is.....following Witt's mounting instructions, including Loktite, it seems like I'm supposed to leave the brake on permanently. Anyone have experience cleaning copper with a brake attatched ?? Seems like it would be a pain in the arse !

 

[LoonWulf]

You get a bunch of crap in your break and the chamber in front of the muzzle.
I normally take mine off every two or three trips to clean the crap out of that little pocket and scrub the muzzle of the gun

 

[45 long]

Aloha.....I was wondering if after cleaning, maybe the first shot would blow all the crud out of the holes. There are slots on the sides, but the top has maybe 20 small holes...........

 

[LoonWulf]

Aloha.....I was wondering if after cleaning, maybe the first shot would blow all the crud out of the holes. There are slots on the sides, but the top has maybe 20 small holes...........

Hazzit bruddah!
It blows most of it out first shot or two lol.....again at least in my experience. I don't like the sweets I use sitting in there after cleaning tho, it's sludgy and causes rust.

 

[David Hoback]

Yes, unfortunately muzzle attachments need removed and cleaned as fouling collects underneath.

 

[BigBlue 94]

Just pulled a flash hider off my mini-14 that had less than a box of rounds through it. All sorts of copper salts around the bore on the muzzle. Guess it doesnt take much!

 

[Ethan Verity]

This is the first time I'm hearing about removing muzzle devices for cleaning. I just do the best I can with a cotton swab, and call it good. So long as the barrel crown is clean, you're good to go. The little bit of buildup further out from that is irrelevant.

If removing them was necessary, then anyone with a pinned/welded device would be out of luck. The muzzle blast is enough to keep them clean on their own, at least as clean as they need to be.

 

[mcb]

Needing to do this is some what dependent on the design of the break and how it tightens down on the barrel, and the level of precision desired. I know that some of the earlier mount/break for the AAC Titan suppressors would tighten against a shoulder on the barrel behind the crown and leave a gap between the end of the barrel and brake over the front edge of the barrel. This gap would build up with carbon/copper, encroach on the crown and eventually cause accuracy issues. The brake would be removed to clean. Changing the break design so it tighten against the end of the barrel and did not leave that gap greatly reduced this problem and made cleaning with the brake easier. But this was on guns that were being used for 1000 yards and more. The suppressor over the break also made build up accumulate faster.

 

[Steel Horse Rider]

Use a removable thread locker to mount your BRAKE, then it shouldn't be a problem.