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Great Scott
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Sure. Wire darts have good trajectory. light weight, high carbon content so they still retain a lot of "hardness". These come commercially as target darts, spearheads, and broadheads. The broadheads are plastic and you melt-glue it onto the shaft. Both spearheads and broadheads are intended to not only pierce, but to create a larger wounder; and in the case of broadheads, barbed so that it will remain in the wound even if the shaft breaks off. Pretty sharp for a piece of plastic, though the tips break and become dull if you shoot them at hard surfaces. The spikes and the pro darts (finish nail width, etc) are heavier and hit with much more impact. The disadvantage with these is that they have a shorter firing range. They will not maintain trajectory as well as a lighter dart, so you will need to learn these darts thru practice so that you can compensate for arc in it's trajectory. Ummmmm.... blunts are good too. The plastic ones are gargage. They will not stun an animal. But still lots of fun for certain functions. You can ring someone's dinner bell from 30 yards away. Pretty cool. The best blunts are stoppers with a little metal peice that screws in. Very effective. These will stun an animal if you hit em on the noggin. Tourney darts are cool. They have plastic tips so you can use 'em on an electronic dart board. Also pretty cool. Paintballs I know nothing about. Exploding caps are like a plastic blunt with a cap gun cap on the end of it. And that's about it as far as commercially available darts go. The variations are limitless once you start tailoring them or making them from scratch. Stoppers can be made from golf tees, cotton balls, corks, and lots of things really. I've found that willow buds are good during their premature stages before the anthers start spitting out pollen. I could go on but this should get you started.
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Thank you for that
Im looking forward to a new hobby, ima start picking off little children from my balcony
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Sure thing. Only shoot the fat and slow children, to teach them a lesson of course. Runnnnnnn fatty.
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lol I get to watch KP fuck around with this thing next weekend
gonna be fun
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Great Scott
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Be nice though, huh? yeah? Just shoot fuckin exploding caps where people people are gonna be like WTF Where'd that come from? Don't unload rounds of darts and paintballs at children. I do not endorse that
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Nah, we are going camping
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I wonder if one could make poisonous darts from concentrated nicotine
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the paintballs that fit the blowguns are sold in 300 and 1000 bags at our local flea market. we are pretty hicksville even for good redneck toys like this and even we have em...
it is a lot cheaper.
and while the schoolchildren are fun, one needs to get the balls with clear gel and case; these won't leave them looking like they have psychedelic measles.
what they are great for is seeing off skunks, possums, and other ppl's pets from your yard. sticking them in the freezer or leaving em outside if it is cold will make the gel thicken and sting more.
i'm not an animal hater, but i dropped almost a thousand bucks at the vet's in a month over a possum fucking up my cats. anything goes at that point. the blowgun worked because it could be left loaded, i have several and thus if the first missed i still had a shot without having alerted the little fucker, and it was freezing...those balls were almost solid. they had to hurt.
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Re: Blow Guns [Re: laotzo]
#12208239 - 03/15/10 06:44 PM (14 years, 10 months ago) |
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you dont have to be an animal hater to kill animals that are causing property or physical damage. especially a possum.
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Asante
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3-4 foot of 5/8 inch electric tubing - presto.
Pack of 8" bamboo skewers + glossy magazine + tape to make the darts.
Roll a paper cone about 3in long fitting the tube diameter and fortify with a bit of tape. This is your flight. Cut off the tip of the cone and stick the bamboo skewer through it so that the point sticks out 4 inches and theres an inch of skewer behind the flight. Attach the skewer to the cone with some tape.
If desired use a lighter to harden the tip of the skewer.
Presto, shot from the electric tube you have a dart that can nail an orange to a plaster wall.
Dont shoot animals, people or cause property damage guys. Not cool.
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Wiccan_Seeker said: Dont shoot animals, people or cause property damage guys. Not cool.
Jokes. Only jokes. I don't think anyone here was actually being serious about shooting blowguns at people's children!  And well, I've already posted my disclaimer which exempts me from liability.
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PeyoteZen said: Don't unload rounds of darts and paintballs at children. I do not endorse that 
But back to your post. You don't find 5/8" to be too large of a bore size? I picked up some 1/2" PVC pipes and that feels almost too wide to me. Do those larger bore sizes have an advantage like increased velocity or range?
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Asante
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1/2" and 5/8" are both good, it depends on which you can shoot the furthest.
Bigger bore = heavier dart which at the same speed gives more penetration.
The tiny bores of commercial blowguns make my eyes pop out by drag resistance
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Re: Blow Guns [Re: Asante]
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ohh ok.. so a larger bore enables you to shoot not only a larger dart, but a heavier dart...without experiencing severely diminished range. I guess that makes sense. My .40 caliber spike darts don't make it more than 20 feet before they start to drop. But the piano wire darts can go at least 3 or 4 times that far before they start getting a significant arc in trajectory.
Crossbow spikes, for example, don't look like they will fly very straight for very long but when you put 150 draw weight behind it... you bet it will.
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Asante
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I recommend anyone who doesnt have the lungs of a horse to not take a 5/8" tube but a 1/2" one though.
Most commercial blowguns are .40 cal, but 1/2" PVC/ABS tube works great if not better.
Bamboo skewers can be hardened by heating the tips with a lighter and hardened further if you subsequently make them composite by impregnating them with a hard glue or lacquer.
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