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It's louder? This one is subjective because I hear people complain about it to no end and some dont think it's that bad. You already have ear protection on. I never got this argument.
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It's louder? This one is subjective because I hear people complain about it to no end and some dont think it's that bad. You already have ear protection on. I never got this argument.
Clearly you don't get it...
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Not to mention the best part of a break. When I'm forced to go to the range instead of the desert the tables on either side of me clear out
If you don't intend to ever fight as part of the team, and are only ever going to shoot in the wide open desert, then have at it, it's not not an issue for you and what you do. If you ever will, might, or do, have to fight with others in close quarters, however, you will find that even if it doesn't bother you--and possibly doesn't bother you while you're
behind the gun, it will bother those around you and those
beside the gun.
It's "brake," by the way.
If you understand the way muzzle brakes and compensators work--then you understand that the more effective it is, the more annoying it must necessarily be to be around, because the effects of the brake/comp are directly related to the way it redirects gases to "push" the weapon in one direction or another.
The blast produced is unnecessarily loud, annoying, and even potentially dangerous to team members in close quarters in a way that flash suppressors or even flash hiders/diverters/linear comps are not. If nothing else, running a brake/compensator will make you an extremely unpopular team member to be around--imagine, if your brake/compensator is clearing other shooters away from one bench over at a public range, conceivably, they too are wearing hearing protection--how they would feel about it if they had to be shoulder to shoulder with you. A brake could reduce felt recoil and muzzle flip of the 5.56 by
100%, and it still wouldn't be worth having you stand next to me as opposed to another dude running an A2, which while "classified" as a compensator, is a fairly traditional flash suppressor design, and is considered as such by just about every one, because it just doesn't provide that much of a practical advantage, regardless of what its "theoretical" or "on paper advantages may be. The brake/comp may allow you to put follow-up shots on target .05 seconds faster--but if it rattles my brain so much that I lose focus on my sector of fire and fail to engage
my targets in a critical entry scenario, it's a liability for both of us.
I'd rather learn to manage the recoil and flip of the rifle without a brake/comp, than to insist on using one, only to find that no one wants to be anywhere near me when the shooting starts because I'm an inconsiderate asshole.
Back to these expensive, super duper tactical flash comps--if all you're doing is shooting alone in the desert, then why bother with half-measures and shitty compromise designs? Buy a $30 Miculek brake that will make your rifle float, and save the rest of the cost of a Battlecomp for ammunition.
And if you're only using a brake/comp as a mount for a can--cool, I got it, and for many people it makes sense--use the brake as a sacrificial blast baffle to increase your can's life, it's fine, if you intend to run your gun 100% suppressed at all times. For a fighting gun, though, 100% suppressed is rarely a practical way to do things. I love cans, I love shooting with them, I love using them, but they, like everything else, are a "time and a place" item. There may be situations where you cannot, or it may not be practical or necessary to use the can.
Sometimes having the much shorter, lighter gun may be more of an asset than having it be quieter. The suppressor might be off for repair/maintenance/servicing. CONUS, the reality is, you might be in a place where it's simply not legal to have. Also, regardless of what silencer manufacturers will try to sell you--using a suppressor
will make your weapon less reliable. That doesn't mean there aren't extremely reliable suppressor/rifle combinations--but all things being equal, a gun without a can will function more reliably than one with one, unless that weapon is a
true dedicated suppressed weapon, which usually almost always means either an integral or direct thread can, and a weapon that literally
won't run unsuppressed.
~Augee