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Mosin Nagant muzzlebrake

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Sure, those twist on muzzle brakes will stay in place....for about 6 rounds LOL. I have heard more stories about these brakes flying downrange than I have read good reviews. If you REALLY want a muzzle brake, thread the muzzle and screw one on. You can even buy a DIY muzzle threading kit for the Mosin (a google search should locate it).
 
It is twist on held in place with screws. I have only seen one review and it was positive. He said tighten it every 20 round. I want this mainly for hunting. The reason I don't want to thread the barrel is I want to have a original rifle. If I get another Mosin I will costomize that.
 
I want this mainly for hunting.
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Why in the world would you want a muzzle brake for hunting?? All it will do is make you more deaf than need be. Contrary to popular belief, a brake on a Mosin will not lessen the recoil perceptibly at all. You wont notice the difference in recoil, but your ears will be bleeding.
 
Why in the world would you want a muzzle brake for hunting?? All it will do is make you more deaf than need be. Contrary to popular belief, a brake on a Mosin will not lessen the recoil perceptibly at all. You wont notice the difference in recoil, but your ears will be bleeding.
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I have seen multiple videos of Mosin Nagant's being shot with a muzzle brake attached. It seemed to lessen recoil considerably. During deer season I took a running shot at a doe
and was only able to get off one shot. That is why I want a muzzle brake. I don't mind the recoil, I want to lessen barrel rise.


It has become the "standered" for Mosins? That must be a Russian word.
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And where did you read that exactly?
 
Absolutely not true. I have a JP Recoil Eliminator on one of mine, it takes so much off of it that I have fired it one handed prone with the butt 6 inches off my shoulder. It barely kicks at all. It is not that loud for the shooter. The guy next to the shooter is not so lucky. This thing will blow the weeds down a good 15 to 20 feet to either side of the muzzle. At one shoot a friend of mine was immediately to my left, we were shooting 400 yards prone. He was close enough that the brass from his AR was landing in the middle of my back, the first time I pulled the trigger it blew his hat off.

http://www.jprifles.com/1.4.2_re.php

IIRC the one I installed is the JPRE-324. Their site says the exit hole is .308 so maybe that isn't the right one. The outside hole on it is something like .416, I want to say the inside one is .360 or thereabouts.

Trying to pull up a pic of it but I'm at work on a dinosaur computer and photobucket won't load for me. The Mosin in question has had the barrel cut to 22 inches. At that length the taper is perfectly sized for a 5/8 x 24 thread. Ordered a die, handle and barrel guide from Carolina Shooter and did it myself. I cut the barrel and crowned it myself (I've been an auto mechanic for 26 years and have some metal working skills and tools), scoped it and installed a Timney trigger. Got less than $500 in the whole thing and it's good for a little under 2 MOA with milsurp ammo. Next stop will be the new mag fed Promag stock when it comes out. Hanging a scope over the top makes it slow to load, one at a time.

Muzzle rise with this brake is drasticly reduced. I use reactive ear plugs and have no ill effects. There are electronic ear muffs that actually improve your ability to hear when you are not shooting and immediately shunt a gunshot. They run about $100 and are really quiet impressive.
 
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"Standered" is in the description below the picture of the brake in the link. I find humor in badly spelled words in public print in this time of spell check...... It is just a defect of mine.
 
You're basically trading recoil for noise with a muzzle brake and hearing damage is irreversible. I'm not a fan of muzzle brakes on large calibers, change your stance to better handle the recoil.
 
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You're basically trading recoil for noise with a muzzle brake and hearing damage is irreversible. I'm not a fan of muzzle brakes on large calibers, change your stance to better handle the recoil.
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No, YOU are fine, it's they guy next to you that goes deaf
 
I don't mind the recoil characteristics of my old Mosin Nagant. I did notice others at the range shooting me the old "harley sneer" whenever I would touch off a round in my SVT40, however. I could not tell any difference in the noise from either rifle, but I could detect a different and softer characteristic to the recoil impulse from the SVT40.

Now, when I use the Cooley compensator on my PTR91 at the range, the blast from that thing loosens my sinuses immediately. The shock wave is noticeable. Folks do complain about that. Same with AK74 brake... noise is noticeable, but the rifle is a pussycat, and very very light.

Only one time at a static range I observed a guy set up a 50 BMG with that multiport brake, and upon his first shot knocked another guy's rifle right off the bench, maybe 2 or 3 benches away. We all jumped up to stop the fight, but the guy with the 50 was ejected and told to never return with that rifle.

Brakes do have an effect on muzzle rise and perceived recoil. Yep. To differing degrees based on their design.
 
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