![]() ![]() Sometimes, you will hear people call it muzzle climb-we have a great way of giving everything a few, if not several different names in the gun community. Photo Credit: Tire Iron/Compensator Muzzle Device Muzzle climb, muzzle rise, no matter how you call it, is the same thing. What’s not the same thing is muzzle climb and recoil. Again, there are devices helpful for both of these, but that’s a compensator/brake hybrid, not a true compensator. How do Compensators Work?Īs I addressed above, a compensator works to help mitigate muzzle climb-this happens because gas is directed upward, pushing against the closed portion of the compensator. One thing you’ll notice on a compensator is the opening on top of the device (pictured above). Unlike a flash suppressor, though, there aren’t openings evenly placed all the way around the device. Instead, there is a closed portion on the bottom. This is also why a compensator can’t be a flash suppressor because the gas can’t be evenly distributed. Photo Credit: Tire Iron/Compensator-Muzzle Flash HybridĪ common hybrid you might see on the end of a rifle is a compensator/flash suppressor combination. These typically have something that looks like a suppressor on top (evenly spaced open slots) but a completely closed bottom (a place for the gas to push against to keep the muzzle from rising). Now, let’s get into muzzle brakes because, again, this isn’t the same thing as a compensator. When you fire your rifle, gas is created. Recoil isn’t exactly a shooter’s best friend when it comes to accuracy. But it’s important in a gas-operated rifle if you want to extract spent rounds and chamber new ones automatically. This tends to happen when you fire a rifle: Right-handed shooters pull the trigger the rifle goes back into the shoulder (recoil), and the rifle’s muzzle goes up and to the right. Left-handed shooters pull the trigger the rifle recoils to the rear, and the muzzle will go up and to the left. This is recoil and muzzle rise in the same motion. The muzzle brake only helps with the recoil, not the muzzle rise. ![]()
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