Thread: Mossberg , Savage & Muzzle Brakes.

Quote: Originally Posted by RWBlue muzzle brake are evil and anyone with one should be smacked around until they remove it. If factory 22lr are coming with muzzle brakes someone should smack the marketing people around until they remove them. Yup! Savage have the Barrett looking muzzle break on their rimfires. Silliest damn thing that I have ever seen. The mossberg 500 that I was refering to, has the same looking muzzle brake. Big and Ugly....

I should make a qualifying statement. Breaks are OK for 50 BMG or better.

Savage is also putting muzzle brakes on the "police" versions of their heavy barreled center fire rifles too - but for some reason does not offer them on hunting or varmint models. But I don't know WTH is up with it....

Marketing

On a shotgun it is not a muzzle brake but a breaching barrel. It is intended for police and military use so you can place the muzzle right on a door lock or hinge and shoot it off. The holes or slots allow the gas to escape and the shot to exit the muzzle and destroy the lock without bursting the barrel. The spikes on the muzzle help the barrel keep in contact with the target. Basically "tacti-cool" marketing to the civilian market....

They look cool and that is what matters the most!!