| | Bellm Brake Machined into tapered Contender barrel, side view. Note horizontal ports are below center and top ports have a highly vertical component to drive the muzzle down. |
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The Best, Most Effective, and Neatest Way to Brake a Barrel!
Cleanest, neatest appearance.
Nothing gobby or gawdy added on.
All work done on center, referenced off the bore itself, thus....
Nothing to be misaligned with the bore.
No unsightly bulge.
Only about 1 1/8" of effective barrel length lost.
Generous expansion chamber machined inside the barrel.
Precision 11 degree target crown cleanly, squarely cut at the end of the bore inside the brake.
Positioned to clear a standard front sight.
Ports angled back 22 degrees actually pull the gun forward by converting the blast normally out the front of the barrel to a force propelling the gun forward.
Top row of ports have a very pronounced vertical angle for more control of muzzle rise. Side ports are positioned below the barrel center line to make more room for the top row of ports, but are on a true horizontal plane so the they do not blast dirt and debris in your face when fired from prone.
Ample clearance at the exit of the brake lets bullet pass without disrupting its flight and accuracy, yet balanced to restrict and redirect the blast out the ports while the bullet is passing through the exit hole or "pupil."
Can be machined into any Encore or Contender/G2 barrel or any barrel I can run between centers in the lathe.
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Make Those Hard Kicking Barrels Pleasant to Shoot! | | Note the clean cut on the rifling in focus at about 7:30 inside the brake |
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Clean, sharp, 11 degree target crown cut inside the brake at the end of the bore.
Disregard the lint in the photo, but look at the end of the bore down inside the brake and see the distinct, cleanly cut profile of the end of the rifling where I managed to get it in focus at about 7:30. |
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Target from a .375x.338 Win Mag barrel with my brake machined in.
From "M.D." whose barrel was, I believe 20" long, tapered octagon done by Virgin Valley, my chamber work.
You can easily shoot this barrel one handed with full house loads. The accuracy speaks for itself. |
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| "This is 3 rounds at 100 yds with the octagon barrel you chambered and braked for me, with the cheapest Hornaday bullets I could find - I think they're something like 12 cents apiece."
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| | A Rifle To Be Proud Of. .375x.338 Win. Mag. |
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| | | | Bellm Brake Machined Into Virgin Valley Tapered Octagon Barrel |
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.375 H&H Mag. 16" Handgun with Williams Firesight Front, Williams Guide Receiver Sight Rear | | 375 H&H Stainless 16" , with matte finish, Bellm brake, Williams Sights |
This was a heavy stainless .375 JDJ factory rifle barrel I cut to carbine legal 16" length, machined my brake into, and rechambered to .375 H&H. Forend is the factory rifle forend. Barrel is drilled and tapped to also take a forend for 15" handgun.
Recoil is a hard push back, virtually no rise at the muzzle. Easy enough to shoot one handed!
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Brake Closeup. Large 3/16" diameter ports, 3 per row.Note the soft, fine sand blast matte finish.
To me this is the best metal finish for hunting next to camoflage. |
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Set up as a rifle with the new Flex Tech buttstock and forendEarly indications are the Flex Tech forend is standing up ok to the recoil of the light weight .375 H&H.
Quite an impressive package for all hunting from up close and personal out to about 300 yards, compact enough for the most dense cover, big enough for the toughest game, light enough for hunting in those deep, dark pockets of down timber high in the mountains at "timber line." |
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Would YOU shoot this compact "serious business rifle" in .375 H&H without the most effective muzzle brake you could get? | | "Elk hunting guide, Mark James, carries this .375 H&H in a backpack/ scabbard when hunting in dangerous grizzly bear country". |
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| | | | Bellm brake machined into 15" Encore .375 JDJ factory barrel. Note the ports clear the front sight. Smaller .140" diameter ports, 3 per row. Takes up only 1 1/8" of barrel length. |
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| | End view of Bellm brake machined into .375 JDJ barrel above. |
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| Close up of 11 degree target crown down inside the brake area (complete with lint on the end of the barrel!). Note the clean, sharp outline of the lands and grooves. |
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| Like above but 4 smaller size ports per row7mm-08 15" stainless steel factory barrel with 4 small ports per row. Still takes up no more than 1 1/8" of barrel length. |
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| .300 Win. Mag. factory 24" light barrel3/16" ports. Maximum recoil reduction in just 1" of barrel length! |
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Top View, .300 Win. Mag. 24" Ports space closer for a more depression of muzzle.
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| .300 Win. Mag. Side view. |
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.300 Win. Mag. 26" stainless steel heavy barrel.3/16" ports. The 26" stainless .300 Win. Mag. factory production barrels are proving to be some of the straightest TC production. When running barrels between centers in the lathe, how straight a barrel is becomes very apparent as it is turning. Most all barrels have some degree of warpage to them, but most of the .300s in the heavy stainless 26" configuration are very straight, inside and out as of this date, 6/2006.
These should be accurate barrels and once the bone jarring, stinging recoil has been removed with my machined in brake system, they should make excellent hunting barrels. I'm inclined to buy one for myself! |
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Shoot a.45/70 10 inch barrel? Yes, and comfortably!
Obviously, stiff 400 to 500 gr. loads are going to recoil quite heavily, but normal Contender 300 to 350 gr. loads are quite manageable.
Normally I would decline such a project, but this .45/70 barrel, cut back to 10" was for a special application, and turned out to be quite interesting. |
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Extra ports for large cals, large capacity magnum cases
This system with a total of 16- 3/16" diameter ports, 4 per row, is for larger bore sizes from .44 cal. up and larger cases. I chambered this particular 18.5" Encore barrel in .458 Lott Encore and fired one handed as a handgun with 70 gr. of Rel. 7 and 300 gr. bullet.
Very little muzzle rise, quite a bit of torque, and a generous shove back, but VERY manageable and not uncomfortable. That said, at my age carpal tunnel is something I am more conscious of, so unlike the days in my 20s and 30s, I wouldn't sit there and shoot one all afternoon inviting a sore wrist. But I would have no hesitation to become proficient with it, work up good loads, and use it on a serious hunt where this much horsepower and penetration are in order, even as a handgun.
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The .458 Lott cartridge is one of my new chamber offerings.
For all you wannabe Quigley Down Unders, the Lott is basically a modernized .45-110 nearly identical to the Sharps Matthew Quigley used in the movie, but using a belted case. Ie, most likely a belt counterbore could be cut in the end of a .45-110 chamber, and the .458 Lott would fit perfectly...... though not recommended for a Sharps type rifle of course. |
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We are not accepting muzzle brake work at this time. We will update this page when our work load is reduced to where we could deliver in a timely manner.
Click on the link below for the barrel work page. Prices and procedures for sending barrels in for brake work are near the bottom of the page. |
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| Barrel work page |
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