Jeff_O: Some time back I had a custom Rifle built on a blueprinted Remington 700 action.
It has a heavy 25" Shilen stainless steel barrel on it.
It has a Jewell trigger and was put in to a Remington 700 PSS stock - it weighs 13 pounds 15 ounces with Leupold 6.5x20 scope.
It shoots EXTREMELY well.
Foolish me though - in brainstorming the Rifle I thought I would eliminate ALL recoil by making it so heavy and by adding a muzzle brake!
In fact it does not recoil much at all but the muzzle brake sucks up so much dust, dirt and debris that while shooting it prone I can not see where my bullets hit!
Defeating the purpose of it being so heavy and the cost of the muzzle brake (Holland)!
So I am limited to shooting it from sitting position with bi-pod or off of one of my Varminting benches.
If I were to do it again I would NOT install the muzzle brake.
Best of luck to you with the muzzle jump situation.
Hold into the wind
VarmintGuy
