Muzzle Brake

[Lucien Pouliot]

I purchased a new Ruger American Gen 2 6.5 Creedmoor. It shoots great, my problem if that is the muzzle brake. to me it is not doing its job. If I put on a different Brake do you think I would see a difference?

 

[Keith.303]

You will have to re-zero it, of course, but there shouldn't be any actual accuracy difference.
If it does it's job, you will probably shoot better.

Cheers!

 

[Ninering62]

I purchased a new Ruger American Gen 2 6.5 Creedmoor. It shoots great, my problem if that is the muzzle brake. to me it is not doing its job. If I put on a different Brake do you think I would see a difference?

Sooo, by " not doing its job " do you mean the muzzlebrake is not reducing the amount of felt recoil? Or do you mean something else?
Not all muzzlebrakes are created equally.
What brake did you put on the gun?

 

[Lucien Pouliot]

I purchased a Ruger American Gen 2 in 6.5 Creedmoor it comes with a brake on it. The gun kicks and jumps like a mule. I have a Remington 700 30-06 put a Witts clamp on brake and tamed it down.

 

[Ninering62]

I purchased a Ruger American Gen 2 in 6.5 Creedmoor it comes with a brake on it. The gun kicks and jumps like a mule. I have a Remington 700 30-06 put a Witts clamp on brake and tamed it down.

Ok, so the brake you have on the RA 6.5 is a poor design & ineffective at reducing felt recoil & muzzle jump.
Unfortunately, muzzlebrakes are like fishing lures, some are ineffective & only catch the fisherman.
There are a cpl really good recoil sled test videos on YouTube in which they take a bunch of the top name brakes & test them against each other on heavy recoiling mag rifles.
These will not help you in reducing muzzle jump, but they will deff show which ones reduce the most recoil.
A quality radial brake should be all you need on a 6.5CM. I just gave a relatively cheap radial brake to my friend that I shoot with for his new Savage 110 6.5CM & it's done a decent job reducing recoil & muzzle jump.

 

[Lucien Pouliot]

Ninering thank you for the info and I will check out the You Tube videos.

 

[Fodderwing]

I have a Bergara B14 with an 18 inch barrel, which came from the factory with a brake. I removed the brake and installed the thread protector on top of an O ring to alleviate the t.p. loosening.

Even with a fluted barrel, my Bergara is not a featherweight gun and recoil is de minimis. FWIW I shoot Winchester Deer Season XP with 125 grain bullets. I know the shorter barrel gives up some velocity, so I shoot a lighter bullet to gain a little more velocity vs shooting the more common 140 grain bullet.

I bought the rifle because I wanted an 18 inch barreled hunting rifle. The brake just added unnecessary length, so it resides in storage.

In general, the 6.5 Cm is not a heavy recoiling round.

But my only Ruger rifles are M77s, 270 and 7mm RM, no brakes on those either.