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Posted: 6/1/2023 3:05:30 AM EDT
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FPNI. Please for the love of god, do not use a muzzle brake. I've been to training classes where instructors have banned brakes. Big caliber bolt action? go for it, youre shooting a couple rounds at a time and the recoil taming is important for bolt guns. Semi-auto carbine/rifle? please, please don't do that. |
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ALG Akula works well and retains a little bit of the slant brake aesthetic while adding some sideways venting; unfortunately it looks to be out of production. Edit: It is fashionable now to hate muzzle brakes, I think it depends on your use case. For indoors shooting, classes, or other events where you are going to be on a fixed firing line then I can see it being annoying and detracting from the overall experience. For LARPing with friends, get friends who are comfortable with discomfort (if you think muzzle brakes are annoying, try taking fire.) However if you want to minimize signature, then the muzzle brake is not ideal. Dust, muzzle flash, and noise are far worse than a flash hider. Then again, AKs are built from the factory with brakes, so….They also absolutely help with both vertical and rearward recoil force. Edit 2: Just get one of each - it’s an AK, you can swap out devices super easy by pressing in the detent pin and unscrewing. |
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I prefer hybrid brake/flash hiders. Definitive Arms Fighter Brake, or even an A2 Flash Hider do both well enough. Concussion isn't bad at all. People will give you shit about an A2 on an AK though, even if it works okay and is cheap as hell. 
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Hating muzzle brakes has nothing to do with being “fashionable” or not. Loud, oppressive, blasty brakes are bullshit for 99% of rec-fire scenarios. |
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I threw the nitride one on my zpap m70 to run my hybrid 46 on |
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A2 Flash Hider, Definitive Arms Fighter Brake, or Jmacs Compensated Flash Hiders are nice hybrid devices imo. For those in ban states the Fighter Brake is marketed as a Muzzle Brake FYI. Works ok for muzzle rise/flash/concussion as well  For a pure brake the Jmacs ones are nice, but kinda loud indoors imo. |
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