So, I’ve got one of those cheap ass NC Star cheap golf ball launchers that’ll thread onto an AR15s muzzle threads. I wanted to see how much farther a 7.62x51 blank would shoot golf balls, so I bored out the end and threaded it for Silencerco ASR Bravo adapter. Those OD green German blanks can easily launch a golf ball about ½ mile. M64 grenade blanks are a little more potent, but not by much and the plastic German ones are cheaper. Accuracy leaves a lot to be desired, though I’ve found that the tighter the ball fits in the bore, the straighter it’ll fly. So, what if one could make one of these with a rifled bore, to get some predictable accuracy, would the launcher be a Destructive Device as its over 50 caliber (1.686” or 42.82mm)? I’m thinking no, not by its self, but maybe yes when it’s attached to a firearm. What do you all think? The reality of the situation is getting a tube this size rifled would be prohibitively expensive as you’d have to pony up all the money up front just to have the tooling made. A second possibility is to externally thread the launcher for a rifled 3-D printed metal extension (kinda like rifled choke for shooting sabot slugs in a shotgun).
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