Toddc: I wish you had not mentioned a 270-338 mag. I have 55 rifles, and not a 270 of any kind in the bunch, except for the 6.8 spc, which, after firing it should be named 6.8 ngu (no good use). Now you put an idea in my head that is going to cost me a minimum of $3000. Hopefully I can wait for your results to be posted and something will deter me.
Wild Rose: I really do not notice an increase in noise if I take a muzzle brake off since the gases and therefore the noise are vented away from the muzzle. Some of it is vented back, but a good brake avoids most of that. The guys that suffer are the guys next to you at the range. But as I posted once before, the only complaints I have ever gotten at the range involves the dirt and sand from other shooters leaking bags that my brakes blow into the adjoining shooters faces and guns. That is why I always arrive early and clean the benches around me with a brush and a can of compressed air. Since I have been doing that, I have had no complaints about anything. Good shooters come to the range prepared, and that means good eye and ear protection. More and more folks have brakes, and nearly everyone just expects to find them at any range, and they have really become a non-issue to 95%+ of shooters. Unfortunately there occasionally is a guy who just likes to complain, make a big issue out of anything, likes to be confrontational, and usually leaves after irritating everyone else who is being considerate and congenial and just having a good time shooting their guns. They are usually the same guys who are shooting 6" groups and are looking for anything or anybody to blame it on besides their own poor equipment, lack of ability, and lack of knowledge of bullets, powders, brass, primers, and everything else that can affect good shooting. I have, unfortunately, been at the range a couple of times when the other shooters have run out of patience and just told some guy to go home. But those people are few and far between. I won't shoot at a range that is a hot line. What good does it do to shoot groups at 300 yards plus, when you cannot get your targets and measure your groups? So the range where I do shoot, we all have to cooperate and wait for a sort of natural break in the action to ask in a voice loud enough for everyone to hear, "OK to go down?" Then we all put down our guns , open the actions, and walk down to our targets to repair or replace them, exchanging ideas and information all the way there and back. Isn't it amazing how well things go when everyone is patient and just cooperates a little?
Now that I have spoken that piece, does anyone else have anything they would like to tell us about their wildcat rifles?
