Shooting Full Bore with a Cutts compensator

[ovenpaa]

Has anyone shot a full bore firearm with and without a Cutts and if so how much difference did the compensator make?

[Maggot]

Has anyone shot a full bore firearm with and without a Cutts and if so how much difference did the compensator make?

No expert mate but it was designed to stop accumulative laddering (SMG round chambering and firing before the weapon had settled so it laddered up the target). We saw this a lot with the Sterling and that was how the effect was explained to me back then.

So I would imagine similar (possibly more) effective than a Spangly doofer as with the Cutts (again IIRC) its all going up and back a bit.

No doubt someone who knows (and don't need to imagine) will come along and tell us, but that's my take.

Actually it might even push the barrel down as it was designed to compensate for cyclic fire on a rising barrel....again, bit of speculation there.

[Blu]

I believe Maggot is on the right track with his comments. Didn't the Thomson Sub Machine gun have a type of Cutts on it to stop muzzle rise. The cuts were only on the top of the compensator however, I have seen them on semi auto shotguns over here with the cuts only on the top of the compensator and they appeared to work rather well. If IIRC Lymans used to make a version of a shotgun cutts compensator

[snayperskaya]

Not shot with a Cutts but regularly shoot a pair of AKMs with the original Soviet slant muzzle brake fitted.It as a simple affair but it sits at an angle so when an AK is fired on full auto it pushes the muzzle down and to the left as AKs tend to rise up and to the right so the slant compensates for this.The AK-74/AK-103 brake is a bigger improved design that has two ports on the side which again pushes some of the escaping gas down and left.
I have shot without the brake and apart from a slight push it made little if any real difference on a straight pull/single shot rifle but makes a big difference to a full auto version

AKM slant brake

[Andy632]

I've shot the 1928A1 Thompson full auto and I reckon the Cutts compensator is a big help in controlling it. But, haven't shot one without the compensator so can't really judge.

I've also shot the Sterling SMG (My PW for years) fairly often and I reckon the Thompson 1928A1 was nicer to fire, but I believe it was also so much heavier.

[ovenpaa]

The reason for my interest is I need to add a muzzle brake to a period rifle and it has to be in keeping so I was thinking about the Cutts design even though it is a bolt action.

[Maggot]

The reason for my interest is I need to add a muzzle brake to a period rifle and it has to be in keeping so I was thinking about the Cutts design even though it is a bolt action.

The Cutts (Named after a USN Officer I think mate...look it up...) was quite a lump Dave, but it deffo directed gas up and backwards with the slots.

As I say I am only aware of it because of being a "tommy gun" fan as a nipper and having badly behaved stirlings ladder up targets.

I also remember and old Sgt of mine in training tell me about a young kid who rounded a corner and fired a mag load at his brick in NI. The lot went up and over the lads because they youngster could not control the thing (Thompson aledgedly), he copped a 762 for his efforts