I bought another modification for my AK-V.
I noticed that there’s a lot of carbon and copper jacket on the then-installed brake that was originally on the AK-V. The carbon is normal. The copper jacket is somewhat of an anomaly, though. The jacket comes off the bullet due to excessive velocity. 9mm was primarily designed to be shot from handguns. When shot from a rifle, due to longer barrels, muzzle velocity is high enough to where the copper jacket sheds as it’s exiting the barrel. That copper spatters against the brake. I’ve 570 rounds through the AK-V, which is enough to where I’m starting to see some build-up. Cleaning it will be a pain.
I researched for alternatives and was about to put an AR-15 bird cage on the AK-V (I’d have had to drilled a larger diameter bore through it, or found one for 9mm). I did find some others and was about to make the purchase when I saw that the PSA website had the Faux Bulgarian 4-piece muzzle brake back in stock. They always sell out of them.
Now, this pistol doesn’t really need such a muzzle brake since the 9mm round isn’t throwing flash everywhere when the pistol is fired. It’s not a 4-piece brake. It’s only one piece and it’s more of a megaphone in internal shape. I wanted it mainly because I didn’t want to have to clean out copper splatter. There’s nothing to clean with this muzzle device…there are no nooks/cranies. It’s more of a show piece than anything, as it does look good.