On Mon, 08 Nov 2010 11:49:12 -0800, Jim Stewart
wrote:

wrote:
http://dallas.craigslist.org/dal/bar/2044707861.html

He claims half mile range. What would the muzzle velocity have to be
to chunk a bowling ball that far?

So I gotta ask, couldn't a ****ed-off cop find some
sort of felony to write you up on if he caught you
shooting this thing?

Yep, he'd call it a "destructive device" and your gluteus would be
lawn growth...

The whole thing sounds ridiculous. Now, in the Tripoli Rocketry
Association, we have something far more sensible. BOWLING BALL LOFT!
You build a rocket to take a bowling ball of specific weight as high
as possible, and return it safely, on a rocket motor of specified
size. (Once they did a contest that required lofting TWO 16 lb
balls.)

This sorta thing is done waaaaay out in the middle of a really, really
big wheat field or desert, so the only ones who can get hurt are the
idiots flying the rockets...