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I was going through the older posts and saw a tank brake on a saiga 12. I haven't been able to find anything else on them, mainly where to get one. While I'm on this subject I'd thought I'd ask if there was any real reduction in recoil when using the tank brake?

 

Thanks in advance,

TJ

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I nice feller' in europe made and uses one for competition, and I also think there is another feller' from this side of the pond that has made one and used it. both were proven to be effective.

 

they arent frequent fliers here, but maybe they will see this topic and chime in,.

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Do you mean a "tank brake" like a M1 Abrams (the JP "end of the barrel with big ports to the side") thing) or the mid-barrel sort of triangly-looking thing?

 

JP "tank brake" compensator (shown here on an AR15):

 

AR15_Open_ace.JPG

 

Mid-barrel compensator (shown here on a Saiga):

 

Saiga12_2.JPG

 

Saiga12_3.JPG

 

 

 

 

Alex

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I believe that red jobbie is a nice finnish friend of ours'. FinnSaiga?? I think? Dont quote me on that. As I recall, he stated that there was about zero recoil with the thing.

 

 

I thought Alex made something similar too???

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The one I was refering to is the one on the end of the barrel. I was looking for one shaped similar to the barret 50 cal. Similar to the one pictured in post #43 in the link below. I see that this is a clamp on, I was kind of hoping for a screw on style (a little cleaner looking). Thanks again for all the replies so far.

http://forum.saiga-12.com/index.php?showto...amp;#entry70337

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Bob, that is Fred's old Saiga:

 

Saiga12_Fred.JPG

 

The second generation version at the '07 USPSA 3-Gun nationals:

 

Fred_Shotgun_3GN2007.jpg

 

Those asshats at Dreadnaught Industries are working on a commercial version of that mid-barrel comp. The prototype is on a shortened-gas gun and works like a champ :)

 

 

 

 

Alex

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I was going through the older posts and saw a tank brake on a saiga 12. I haven't been able to find anything else on them, mainly where to get one. While I'm on this subject I'd thought I'd ask if there was any real reduction in recoil when using the tank brake?

 

Thanks in advance,

TJ

 

The brake you are looking for is made by a finnish guy. As far as I know he had access to a machine shop for a while but is not selling them brakes. There are quite a few references to this setup here on the forum and he actually explained the theory behind it in a post quite recently. The main idea was to reduce recoil and thereby muzzle flip.

If you look at the gun there is (what I would consider) quite a lot of vertical distance between the stock and the barrel. Since recoil is almost eliminated there is still not much muzzle flip.

 

Here are a few links:

http://forum.saiga-12.com/index.php?s=&amp...st&p=186647

http://forum.saiga-12.com/index.php?s=&amp...st&p=149030

http://forum.saiga-12.com/index.php?s=&amp...st&p=149333

http://forum.saiga-12.com/index.php?s=&amp...st&p=114106

 

His stage name is "Jamshot". I guess you could always ask him why he is known by that name...

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His stage name is "Jamshot". I guess you could always ask him why he is known by that name...

 

I had a Tanfoglio P19 when I started IPSC and it was more or less manual action during 1st year. So, jamming gun means that user is ---> JamShot. :unsure:

Glocks works better. But removing failures is still fast thanks to compulsary training with Tanfoglio. :D

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I don't want to make more of those brakes since they have too complicated geometry to produce with regular mill tapps. Consider that angled ports do need long tapps and space to avoid tool holder to crash. This leads to slow feed and thinner chips for protecting ultra-long tapps (smaller radius on corners...) from snapping. Leading to dramatically longer work time, which isn't making it worth it. Costs would be too big to even dream of making masses of 'em with 3-axis CNC-mill availlable occasionally during nights.

 

 

-JumiKuula aka JamShot

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