A Loudener?"The Loudener" for your AR, so what is this? Just as it sounds, when the gun is fired it is "LOUD". Watch the video below and turn up your speakers, it almost sounds like from a .50 cal. They say you can feel the blast from it as well.
Posted on 03/04/2020 6:52:17 AM PST by w1n1
A Loudener?
"The Loudener" for your AR, so what is this? Just as it sounds, when the gun is fired it is "LOUD". Watch the video below and turn up your speakers, it almost sounds like from a .50 cal. They say you can feel the blast from it as well.
The "Loudener" was design by Owen Martin of Snake-Hound Machine a New Hampshire based company that has made a huge splash with its AK. Here's the makeup to make your AR loud.
Muzzle Brake Single Chamber – allows expanding gasses to burn outside the barrel (see the video above). This creates a significant increase in air pressure and decibel levels, and expands the typical cone of weapon-produced sound. This also reduces the felt recoil. (practical application?) Read the rest of the Loudener.
Don’t need this for my M1 Carbine. Sounds like an artillery piece as it is.
I think I’ve heard of this, but only as a joke on a TV show some years ago. “Sledge Hammer!”, msybe.
Lol! I got flash cans to do the opposite on my short barreled pea shooters. I just hope if somebody has one, they aren’t bunkering up in a nicely tiled bathroom when they have to let go a few rounds to stop the bad guys! Know what I mean? Also, you won’t be appreciated much at the range, that’s for sure!
Any brake, on any gun, will make it a LOT louder. Brakes are intended to bleed off gases in different directions as the bullet exits the muzzle. They do, in fact, reduce recoil but they are loud. I’ve found that brakes with more, smaller holes - like the old Answer muzzle brake - aren’t quite as loud and are just as effective at reducing recoil. If you shoot long range (300-plus meters) and want to see your bullet hit your target, muzzle brakes are a good idea, regardless of the caliber. My longest shot on a woodchuck/groundhog was 529 yards with a 7mm STW with a brake and I saw the 150-gr ballistic tip hit.
DO YA' THINK? The purpose of a muzzle brake is to make a semi-auto rifle "shoot flat" and hold a better sight picture during rapid fire.
Yes, thanks! I thought that might have been it, I should have googled!
Was a fun show.
I have owned both an M1 carbine and an Enfield Jungle Carbine. The M1 is nothing.
One of the great cult classic sitcoms. It deserved a couple more seasons.
I have a prop from the show. It’s a wanted poster of Sledge. Alan Spencer sold a bunch of them on Ebay for charity about 15 years ago. Mine is framed.
He left the best feedback for me. “Trust him, he knows what he’s doing”.
Oddly enough, my wife is big on strong female characters (Doreau) and likes absurd humor along the lines of Sledge, doesn’t care for the show.
The ultimate muzzle brake is an original AK47 and if you’ve ever been on the receiving end you never forget that sound.
Funny... i recently watched Hickok45’s video on the Jungle Csrbine. Yeah, it’s pretty loud, even on the video.
My then gf and I were both fans of the show and enjoyed watching it together.
Didn’t really have much meat to last more than 2 seasons, though - it was kind of a 1-joke premise. Fun while it lasted.
The gf also like it cause the fellow who played Sledge (David Rasch?) looked somewhat like Rutger Hauer, whom she had a crush on.
But we never missed the show. Funny stuff.
I shot it in a hi Power rifle match. For fun. They asked me to never bring it back. I had a bruise on my chest for a month.
Just for “fun”, find someone who owns a rifle in .460 Weatherby Magnum and shoot it. I did - ONCE - when I was stationed in Alaska. Gave me a nose bleed and blew one of my eardrums - from recoil alone, and I was wearing hearing protection; felt like someone had hit me with a sledgehammer - HARD!
I put a Tika brand muzzle brake on my Tika 24” barrel ‘308. Yes, it sounded loud when I fired it. Didn’t realize how loud until I let someone else shoot it (prone) while I was on my knees a few feet back and to the left. The sound & shock wave nearly knocked me over. At that point, I seriously wanted to apologize to the other shooters.
(Thing is a track driver though.)
Here’s your problem! You need the S&W 460 Mag wheel gun to warm up!
Haven’t shot one of those things. I had a TC Contender in full-length .45-70 that damned near broke my arm - seriously - and that was enough for me.
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