:dunno:The reason I'm asking is that I've been watching several video's on brakes being put on bolt guns with good results and I have a "Long Tom" 06 I'd like to shorten up some, and add a break to,,another Springfield 03 that I'd built probably,,,, 25-30 years ago or so ago.
It's a really nice gun and all but just a bit ungainly for anything but a bench or long range truck gun, lots like some of the old Weatherby's. You sure get tired hauling that beast around all day let me tell ya, it's all there. It needs an updating,or at least a diet!! But not sure just what I'll do on it just yet,,it's pretty damn nice as is, but just a bit ungainly. And I'd just like to improve that somehow.
The thing I'm having to consider carefully is that optimal barrel length in 06 with slower burning powders and heaver bullets, that I like to use in that gun, is in the 22-24" range, and it's 26 now,,so I'm not going to gain anything really there on either count and it's a bit to fancy really to put into a composite stock to shed some weight and still have it look right. Bolts chromed, polished finish, ect,,see what I mean about not really fitting in a composite sock, and looking right?
But I do have a 8mm Mauser that could use it more,and probably would fit the bill better in a composite stock configuration and a break. I may just do something to that one?
I just want to try out a brake on a harder kicking bolt gun,,just for the shits of it, if for no other reason and those are the only two I can think of I want to do something different with. And I like gathering all the info I can get before hand, it makes things much easier,and better.
That's why all the brake questions.