Hamby Strategic Armament
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I'm looking into commercially making a .300 Blackout Bullpup. I want to know the scale of market interest and, specifically, who here is interested.
Gonna start this off somewhat like a story: A friend of mine is an avid Nerf collector. I was hanging out with him the other day after going to the range and he was showing me his 'prized blaster:' A Nerf N'Strike Elite Rayven. It's a bullpup style gun that looks like an unholy mating of a Keltec RDB and an FN P90.
Anyway, I had the idea that, hey, this thing is pretty small, maybe it would make a decent gun. It would about have to be chambered in .300 BLK because .223 loses too much velocity out of that short of a barrel.
I went down and bought me one of these rayvens to take measurements, and it seems like it would have about a 8.5 to 9 inch barrel if the barrel started where it realistically would. Now I'd probably have to make a 16 inch version for it to be commercially successful. Fortunately, the geniuses at Hasbro have already figured that out for me:
That is the Rayven with a 'barrel extension module' attached. In real life terms, it's basically a quad-rail/handguard. It brings the barrel length out to about 16.5 to 17 inches, measured from 1cm in front of the magwell to the end of the very orange muzzle.
Realistically I'd probably make the handguard KeyMod to decrease weight, but this is why I want input; What would you rather, a slimline KeyMod handguard or a MIL-1913-STD Picatinny Quad-Rail? What is overall interest for a Rayven style Bullpup chambered in .300 Blackout? Would you rather other calibers?
Other than that, I basically have already figured out in my head how this would work in terms of real physics. A few modifications would have to be made to the body, but I think this is doable.
Also, for everyone worried about bullpup ambidexterous ejection, I have a plan. See the battery compartment of the Rayven above? (The bulge on the side of the magwell.) I think I will make that a little chute for casings to fall down, thus allowing side extraction like a standard rifle, but with downward ejection like a P90 or an RDB.
Gonna start this off somewhat like a story: A friend of mine is an avid Nerf collector. I was hanging out with him the other day after going to the range and he was showing me his 'prized blaster:' A Nerf N'Strike Elite Rayven. It's a bullpup style gun that looks like an unholy mating of a Keltec RDB and an FN P90.
Anyway, I had the idea that, hey, this thing is pretty small, maybe it would make a decent gun. It would about have to be chambered in .300 BLK because .223 loses too much velocity out of that short of a barrel.
I went down and bought me one of these rayvens to take measurements, and it seems like it would have about a 8.5 to 9 inch barrel if the barrel started where it realistically would. Now I'd probably have to make a 16 inch version for it to be commercially successful. Fortunately, the geniuses at Hasbro have already figured that out for me:
That is the Rayven with a 'barrel extension module' attached. In real life terms, it's basically a quad-rail/handguard. It brings the barrel length out to about 16.5 to 17 inches, measured from 1cm in front of the magwell to the end of the very orange muzzle.
Realistically I'd probably make the handguard KeyMod to decrease weight, but this is why I want input; What would you rather, a slimline KeyMod handguard or a MIL-1913-STD Picatinny Quad-Rail? What is overall interest for a Rayven style Bullpup chambered in .300 Blackout? Would you rather other calibers?
Other than that, I basically have already figured out in my head how this would work in terms of real physics. A few modifications would have to be made to the body, but I think this is doable.
Also, for everyone worried about bullpup ambidexterous ejection, I have a plan. See the battery compartment of the Rayven above? (The bulge on the side of the magwell.) I think I will make that a little chute for casings to fall down, thus allowing side extraction like a standard rifle, but with downward ejection like a P90 or an RDB.