Thread: Optima suppressor vs Terminator brake

I have no experience with a suppressor with brake built-in, however, I'm thinking it may well be more of a 'marketing' thing than actually that functional (as a brake) - This is however only my opinion based on no experience on said suppressor.

However, i do run T2 brakes on several rifles, and i do also run DPT suppressors on others. Also have a common NZ made Radial brake that i have used on one rifle, and have used a similar brake on a mates light weight 7mm SAUM (a sister rifle of mine which i run with a DPT)

If you want to reduce the recoil of a heavy recoiling rifle to basically nil, and no muzzle jump at all, no matter how light the rifle, then a Terminator brake is the go, they work insanely well.

BUT you must make sure you never fire it without decent flanged ear plus fitted. If LR target shooting, this is easy obviously, however in a hunting situation when things can happen quickly and you can get caught out with plugs hanging around your neck (as you were trying to communicate with another) and the deer suddendly appears on a clearing again for a split second, and you take the shot before it disappears again with your plugs still hanging around your neck, it is not good. I highly recommend not doing that. I wasnt consciously aware i didn't have them in, I'd taken them out to talk on the UHF to my hunting mate further up the hill above me to see if he could still see the deer.

I instantly regretted it, very sore ringing ears that continued like that for the rest of the day until i woke the next morning, i instantly knew i would have damaged my hearing forever. So moral of the story is when using braked rifles while hunting you need to be EXTRA careful and mindful of this. The meat animal spiker wasnt worth it.

On the range or field target shooting i wear plugs with muffs over if i can when running a brake.