Pattern 1914 Winchester with modified muzzle brake design

**breakeyp** · 02-22-2018 03:36 PM

This rifle believed to have been altered by the British icon

between wars. The angle of the drilled holes would seem to suggest evaluations of means to reduce recoil.

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**Daan Kemp** · 02-23-2018 01:02 AM

No front sight.

**Promo** · 02-23-2018 04:23 AM

How would they have used it without a front sight?

**fjruple** · 02-23-2018 07:41 AM

Interesting thanks for sharing!

**breakeyp** · 02-23-2018 08:58 AM

You don't need sights if you are running tests measuring recoil, photographing gas discharges, effect of holes on muzzle velocity.

**browningautorifle** · 02-23-2018 10:02 AM

I wonder if they were trialling a suppressor design of some sort?

**breakeyp** · 02-23-2018 06:42 PM

Some sort of study seems possible as the Pattern 1913 .276 cartridge had a bad reputation for noise and muzzle blast.

**Melanie_Daniels** · 02-24-2018 03:07 AM

A similar rifle is in the Royal Armories - with front sight. The description tells that there were made 16 small holes on the top side of the barrel and than they made a modified Lewis muzzle cone above them to direkt the muzzle blast upwards. This Tests were made in about 1935.