Muzzle Brake or Magna port
New SAKO 300 ultra should I Magna port the barrel or Muzzel Brake?
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I'm interested in opinions as well. Same caliber, 700 action.
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I have had my 300 Weatherby Magnaported as well as my Browning Citori trap and skeet shotguns and I have been very pleased. I chose this because the appearance of the gun is not changed.
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I had a break put on a 7mm ultra and he threaded it on so if I want to take it off and he gave me a cap as well,,,pretty cool and looks good. Can you do both? whats the best way to reduce recoil?? 0 -
I prefer the screw on type, because of the ability to take it off if needed. I think either way will do a good job of reducing recoil.
Combine the brake, or the porting, and a good Limbsaver recoil pad, and consider it tamed as good as it will get........
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threaded,..either Vais or KDF.
why chase the game when the bullet can get em from here?....
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I had my Ruger M77 338 Win. Mag. Magnaported in 1984. I have not been disappointed. 
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I would suggest a muzzle brake of some type, magnaport will (99 percent of the time)destroy your accuracy.
A friend of mine used to work for Weatherby and sent off many rifles for magnaporting though their retail shop, he was curious to the affects on accuracy and started grouping rifles before and after the process.
Rifles were shot with factory ammo before hand and then the target and box of ammo were put aside until the rifle was returned and then grouped again using the remaining rounds from the same box of ammo.
All the rifles that he tested suffered accuracy loss after being ported, one of the weapons he told me about was a Mark V that was in 378 Weatherby Mag. and he had trouble with it even hitting the paper at 50 yds. when he tried to group it after they got it back from magnaport.
I, myself have never experienced any negative affects to accuracy from muzzle brakes, there will be an increased muzzle blast though.
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I must say with a brake it is alot louder if your standing next to me.
Funny in the field you dont really feel or hear the gun. I really dont want to decrease the accuracy of the gun the goal is to increase it.0 -
2BGood,
The choices given control different actions:
Mag-Na-Port controls muzzle RISE but not recoil.
Muzzle brakes control recoil and muzzle rise.
I have used and tested several Ultra Mags in various configurations and I usually prefer to put brakes on them for comfort and ease shooting both in the field and from the bench or prone in competition. The incidence of increase in the noise level is curtailed by the use of sound suppressors in the form of 'muffs and/or plugs. This should be stated frequently, there is NEVER a time when a firearm should be discharged without the shooter being protected by some form of sound suppression. Yes, you should wear something even when hunting. Get over it and learn to protect what you can't get back. There have been great strides made in the area of microelectonics that support the use of hearing protection while hunting. I do it all of the seasons that I hunt and it hasn't prevented me from filling any of my tags.
Long ago I read the stories regarding the loss of accuracy from having a firearm Mag-Na-Port-ed and while I don't doubt the person's report above, there is far too much information that is lacking to make a compreshensive statement about the process from that post. It sounds like the writers from a couple of decades ago, slamming it without thorough testing, when the process was new to the industry. And the *99%* factor would need substantial support from better testing than what has been stated above.
I've been able to achieve stellar accuracy with barrels that have been Mag-Na-Port-ed when it was a matter of controlling muzzle rise as opposed to controlling recoil. It is a good process to use when making varmint rifles using a light recoiling cartridge and you just want to see the hits.
Be aware that if you intend to use a guide while hunting, the muzzle brake will NOT be a good idea. The guides generally don't have any hearing protection and the possibility of injuring their hearing is really high. Threading the muzzle will allow changing the brake out for a thread protector. But also be aware that switching between them will change your Point of Impact.
You should take a look at the Limb Saver pads as well.
Best.
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Mag-Na-Port does offer a brake for rifles:
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In response to the accuracy, I purchased my Weatherby from the blem rack when they were in Southgate and had them do the custom action and send the rifle off to be Magnaported. While I admit that I never tested the rifle before having it Magnaported, the rifle consistently puts the first three shots inside the diameter of a dime at 100 yds.
When I first sighted it in, I thought I had missed the target completely on the second shot, but it turned out the second bullet overlapped the first shot by about half the bullet diameter.
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