I was "that guy" at the range today.

[SteyrAUG]

Muzzle brakes are stupid, I get it on a Barrett 95, but on ARs...LAME, especially short ARs.

Clinton ban era, flash hiders not permitted so perm mounted muzzle brake or bare bores where all that was allowed.

[Hammer_Man]

Muzzle brakes are stupid, I get it on a Barrett 95, but on ARs...LAME, especially short ARs.

I put a muzzle brake on my 308 just so I can pull it out when some jackass at the indoor range is shooting an unsuppressed SBR.

[WillBrink]

Been doing a lot of indoor range shooting with a compensated pistol lately due to the heat. Can definitely understand what you mean here!

The 'factory ammo' for the particular firearm I have been shooting is about a buck and a half per round from Underwood (not many others even make this particular stuff) + shipping and tax...


Being a reloader and being really well stocked - I roll my own using the same exact components for about 20 cents per (not counting the brass cause it lasts for damn near ever if I do not lose it)

Yeah, my costs will go up eventually when I get to where I 'need' to buy more bullets, primers or powder but even at current ass rape prices on those things I would still be well under 40 cents per round to make them myself.

The white box range ammo is a $1 per round!!!

[utahjeepr]

Per latest acquisition of AR pistol (1), I took it to the range to try it out. As expected, very loud and big pretty fireball.

Hee hee!

Yeah, my 7 inch AK is much the same. Loud as hell, and 3 foot beach balls of fire. I'm running a linear on it. You should run yours in the dark, the strobe effect is quite... pronounced.

[WillBrink]

I put a muzzle brake on my 308 just so I can pull it out when some jackass at the indoor range is shooting an unsuppressed SBR.

I resemble that!

[utahjeepr]

I was just gonna say, those ban era ARs with the 74 style brakes are the loudest 5.56 ANYTHING I've ever heard.

Pretty sure the 74 brake was designed to make the average Russian conscript think he was still running a .30 cal.

Either that or they wanted to toughen Ivan up by hanging an anvil on the end of the barrel and having him swing it around.

[gaijin]

My son has one on a rifle length barrel / rifle gas / rifle buffered AR. He claims because of the 'recoil' reduction.


That + him owning 2 cats + the lack of a girlfriend pretty much prove to me he is a homo.

Gotta love it.

[WillBrink]

Gotta love it.

Classic M4C. Savage. At least the kid owns an AR, so can't be all bad in my book.

[Todd.K]

Put a muzzle brake on it and go back the weekend before deer season starts…

[Stickman]

It seems that all the internet kids want to go as short as possible (obviously not you Will), and forget the lack of reliability, damaging noise and concussion, never mind the lack of ballistic ability when they are using 8, 7.5 and even 6.5" barrels. Throwing a brake on them does tame the intensified felt recoil, but at the price of damaging ears or mandating the shooter double up ear pro.

I had a team that used 6.5" barrels on duty guns. I wanted to cry, and eventually I simply replaced all the barrel in inventory with 10.5s.