Is there a story?

[300RUM]

Is there a story? That is often a question people ask when they feel somebody has an overly negative reaction to something. If you visited a certain thread a few weeks back you may have witnessed that I react that way to bottom vented muzzle breaks. Yes, there is a story. Twenty five plus years ago I used to shoot three gun matches. A fellow shooter invited me to join him and another friend of his to go shooting one weekend. His friend, a talented aerospace machinist and long range competitive shooter, had just built himself a .50 BMG rifle. At this time that kind of rifle was fairly uncommon. Most that existed were owned by the military. Prior to this none of us had ever fired anything larger than a .300 Winchester Magnum or anything with a muzzle brake. The other two guys were a little older and both around 160 pounds. I was 6’3” and 215 pounds and they apparently thought I would make a good test dummy. I hadn’t quite figured that out yet. We had the rifle out on a bi-pod and were looking it over. The one big concern, was the muzzle brake going to work well enough. I had to open my big mouth and say “It looks pretty good to me”. That pretty well sealed my fate as the test dummy and the first round was handed to me. It was a hot summer day, we were out in the sun, and I was covered with light coat of perspiration. I laid down behind the huge rifle, chambered the round, took aim and squeezed the trigger. I was instantly transformed from test dummy to powdered doughnut. Never had much use for bottom venting brakes after that.

[hoghntr]

L.O.L. yep that about sums it up. Powdered donut is great description especially with the 50