This Muzzle Brake is Better Than a Suppressor (2023)

Introduction

Recoil reduction test on the Ultradyne apollo max

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Video

Here's the thing and I'm just going to come right out and say it right off the top.

I don't like compensators like at all, I find them loud and disruptive.

And I would say that in many instances the user that is shopping for a compensator is actually in the market for a silencer.

And they just don't know yet, because one of the prime functions of a suppressor is to reduce recoil, but it has additional benefits to do its construction like sound reduction that compensators just simply do not have.

And if you say something about a linear compensator, I swear, because you don't know the difference between marketing and reality anyway, for whatever reason that individual hasn't obtained that device yet and some excuses on that one are better than others.

Personally, speaking I'm, pretty protective of the hearing that I have left.

So I tend to gravitate more towards the suppressed side of the house, but ultra9 did send some compensators here for evaluation.

So that's, what we're gonna do this is the apollo max.

And as you guys saw in the open, it has a fairly impressive amount of recoil reduction, such to the point that I'm going to eat.

Some of my words, very early in the video and say that this outperforms, my suppressors all of them, and I can tell you that by feel, but feel is a little bit too subjective for this channel.

So we're gonna find out just how much this device reduces recoil.

So I went out and built an apparatus to test this.

And at the heart of it is the cmmg descent that I reviewed previously the idea being to measure the performance versus suppressed and unsuppressed shooting.

There were a few problems with my initial setup.

So I fixed those specifically, though I want to take the human element out of the equation.

And I made a hydraulic trigger mechanism.

I'll be going into depth on this in a later video that I'll discuss at the end of this one I'll be somewhere else for this.

But take our hydraulic trigger here and you'll see it run back until click.

And you know, it'll, obviously be more prolific when there's a round in the chamber.

So anyway, unsuppressed suppressed comp, observing this visually in my mind is fairly compelling.

But the the problem with that is that it's it's it's, not data, it's, not quantitative.

So in order to get some quantitative data, we have to do some maths and I promise, I won't subject, you guys to that.

But what it breaks out to is that we lose about half the recoil with the apollo max.

When we look at the can that we use the energetic vox, which is one of my favorite cans.

It reduces the recoil by about 20 percent.

Now we have to be careful whenever we do a direct comparison, especially between two dissimilar items like a comp and a suppressor, oftentimes direct data can lead you to conclusions that may be a little bit heavily weighted and that's.

Why we normalize data it's a fairly simple data set the factor that I chose to use for normalizing data was the weight of the devices.

And when we do that we end up with about a 30 percent efficiency gain if we're using the comp over the unsuppressed gun, that's, pretty good.

Okay.

I don't know how else to say that other than 30 is a big number form and function.

It is a four chamber break as you guys saw in the pictures previously it has two ports on top.

Now there are three sets of dimples on top and on bottom.

Those dimples do not go all the way through I'm, not sure what the function of those are.

But just in case, the pictures made it seem as though those dimples went all the way through they do not.

There are two sets of wrench flats, there's a long flat.

And then there is a short flat towards the proximal end of the brake.

This thing attaches via a jam nut.

So you basically thread the knot.

All the way down, you put the spacer sleeve in there.

And then you thread this down, then you thread that jam nut back up to it.

I prefer jam nuts over something like a crush washer.

It doesn't really matter in a break of this size.

But if you're talking about say, a suppressor, the error that is induced by a crush washer can lead to baffle strikes.

This is not a long enough device to worry about that sort of thing.

However, what it does do is gain you some repeatability.

The thing is not going to be cocked cattywampus on the end of your barrel.

If you use a jam nut, excuse me, I'm, not saying that it is impossible for you to screw this up, but it's less likely that it'll be messed up if you're using a jam nut over a crush washer guys and gals.

It works.

They do a 556 and 762 variant.

And they also have a whole bunch of other comps available.

But given what we've talked about already, I don't know why you would go for anything less than the best you just go for a suppressor right speaking of suppressors.

I have a another video where I'm going to go out and test all the 30 caliber cans that I have head head and see who does the best so stick tuned for that one's gonna take me a little bit of time to put that together, but that's all for the ultradine apollo max.

And I would say that, uh, alterdyne's impressing me lately, that's, the simplest way to put it.

They've been doing a lot of good work.

So thumbs up, even though I don't like comps, you.