FrankenMauser
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Could be the brake design.
Could be the weight.
Could be harmonics.
Could just be dumb luck.
I know a fellow that recently had the same thing happen.
He assembled a hog rifle chambered for a wildcat .375 cartridge. The rifle was finished long before his custom muzzle brake arrived, so he adapted an off-the-shelf 30 caliber brake (bored for .375 bullets, of course).
Performance was a complete disappointment. It shot about 3 MoA on a good day; but usually more like 5-8 MoA.
He tried all kinds of loads, 'accurizing' techniques, dozens of bullets, ten plus different powders, and on, and on...
And then he gave up.
He was, literally, tearing the rifle down to recycle its parts into other projects, when his custom muzzle brake arrived. Curious about how well the design worked, he reassembled the rifle, torqued the brake, and headed to the range.
BOOM!
0.334" @ 100 yd with Interlocks.
0.421" @ 100 yd with GMXs.
Just one single hole with Accubonds. ("Under 0.180"" was his description.)
To hear him tell the story, it was if angels descended from the heavens and shined the light of the world upon the target and the muzzle brake, to save him from the darkness where he had been lost.
Why did that happen?
Don't know. And he doesn't care, since it shoots.
Could be the weight.
Could be harmonics.
Could just be dumb luck.
I know a fellow that recently had the same thing happen.
He assembled a hog rifle chambered for a wildcat .375 cartridge. The rifle was finished long before his custom muzzle brake arrived, so he adapted an off-the-shelf 30 caliber brake (bored for .375 bullets, of course).
Performance was a complete disappointment. It shot about 3 MoA on a good day; but usually more like 5-8 MoA.
He tried all kinds of loads, 'accurizing' techniques, dozens of bullets, ten plus different powders, and on, and on...
And then he gave up.
He was, literally, tearing the rifle down to recycle its parts into other projects, when his custom muzzle brake arrived. Curious about how well the design worked, he reassembled the rifle, torqued the brake, and headed to the range.
BOOM!
0.334" @ 100 yd with Interlocks.
0.421" @ 100 yd with GMXs.
Just one single hole with Accubonds. ("Under 0.180"" was his description.)
To hear him tell the story, it was if angels descended from the heavens and shined the light of the world upon the target and the muzzle brake, to save him from the darkness where he had been lost.
Why did that happen?
Don't know. And he doesn't care, since it shoots.