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An aquaintance of mine has a 300 mag, Browning, which constantly gave
him shoulder pain. His cousin the gunsmith recommended he get the KDF,
screw in type suppressor. I shot the rifle before and after, and it
made a great deal of difference in the recoil. Yes it did seem the
noise at point, but then that is understandable due to the design of
the screw on suppressor. There is a trade off here, noise vs recoil,
depending on the time of hunting, a cheap set of ear plugs could be
used to off set the noise. There were some direct benefits over the
mag porting, (can't remember exactly) at any rate, if I wanted to
reduce the recoil I would go with the screw on suppressor. The
accuracy appears to better, so I'm told.
Just a note in passing, the place who did the work on his brand new out
of the box Browning was a place in Texas. Mind you the dealer got the
300 mag, turned around and shipped it directly to the 'smiths' for
work, and it came back ( I was there when it came back to the dealers)
with two nice 'dents' in the stock. The comment was well, we had the
work done at your (the aquanitance), so if you want this straightened
out you will have to handle it. Just a point of caution.
Cheers
Leonard
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| Well, I took the .300 mag down to the Shootin' Den and had them
put a KDF on it. The work was done here locally. No dints or
dings when I got it back. Two week turn around. Had the slim
line model installed at $179. Went up to the range on Rampart
Range Road and let a few rounds fly. Wished I had taken the .270
for comparison. It shot very good and felt like it had about the
same or less recoil than as I remember the .270 has. I didn't
notice any blast in my face from the reventing of the blast. I
wore ear protectors, but the noise level still didn't seem too
much more that a .300 generates anyway. Initial tests are good,
more to come.
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