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Recoil reducer
Webpage here. Dunno what the effect on muzzle blast might be, tho.
UPDATE: after some search, I found the patent (search by city and "recoil" rather than company name). Didn't have time to really look it and the drawings over, but the description suggested it worked by redirecting muzzle blast rearwards. That's the principle of most muzzle brakes. The problem is the tradeoff between reducing recoil and increasing the shooter's muzzle blast as heard. A very quick read even suggested it relied upon spring loaded trapdoors, which have been tried for a century and do not work, given the incredible pressures we are talking about. Again, that was on a very quick read of a technical document.
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I try to obey the laws of physics, too. - Well - except for gravity. Gravity is for suckers....
Such a thing might not break the laws of physics if it does like typical muzzle breaks do and direct the gases backwards to counter the recoil from the bullet. What you have with a good muzzle break is a sort of rocket engine countering the bullet recoil by taking the initially forward firing exhaust and redirecting it backward to push the gun forward. It's actually plausible that a very efficient muzzle break could be designed that would pull the gun forward with every shot.
However, claims that sound too good to be true are being made for this device and I don't see any details about how it could possibly work. It looks too small to be a muzzle break of much effectiveness. I wouldn't send this company any money without more evidence and I'd be very skeptical of any evidence they supplied.
They claim patent protection, but there are no issued US patents or published patent applications for the Company name listed on the webpage.
I think they would need more than a muzzle break and may have some sort of recoil redirection mechanism inside.
That being said, the photo of the non-recoiling Beretta looks fishy because the butt of the gun is obscured. It could be bolted to the table for all we know.
A passing observation: I watched a ton of videos of various 9mm pistols being fired when I was looking for a new pistol. I'm a recoil wuss, so the idea was to see what the muzzle flip was like for average shooter types on youtube and such. That police qualification video shows muzzle flip that appears very comparable to any average joe firing a stock 92fs.
just at first glance, it seems to me that even if something like this could work with more than just a muzzle brake, the stress placed on the firearm from redirecting recoil would be somewhat undesirable, particularly on the slide of a semiauto.
Take a look at there other products. Something does not seem right.
Above comments are reasonable and expected. Any one is welcomed to live-tst the hand, the rifle, and the shotgun
On top of that the visitor cab self test the the stealth IR against a 4th generation all in-use thermal imagers.
Thanks guys
The comments are resonable but all statements on recoil in www,stealthir.com are real + _ 1%
I'm suspicious.
Eliminating 95% of the recoil would seem to violate a law or two of physics. I take laws of physics very seriously and obey them all.