Blow Guns ?

coyotebc said:
Former Prohibited Weapons Order, No. 6

12. The device commonly known as “Yaqua Blowgun”, being a tube or pipe designed for the purpose of shooting arrows or darts by the breath, and any similar device.

Stupid I know, I can't seem to find any reports on darranged killers out there shooting people with blowguns
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And yet if you were to connect some source of compressed air to the blow gun then you could always contest that it is legal.
Another thing I find funny is that paintball markers are available in .40 and .68calibur and you can find blow darts in .40 and .68 cal......
 
Don't try to make sense out of our laws. For every example you find of a Firearms/weapons law that makes sense, you'll find a dozen that are completely F*&ked up
 
Hey look what I found. I was cleaning out the garage and found these hanging on the wall.



The bottom one I painted to look camo and the top one is an extension to add to the end of another. They are all .40 cal.
 
rzwieg said:
I made one when I was a kid. After seeing a Charles Bronson movie, I found a floor lamp tube, some finishing nails and made paper cones for the darts. Ha...ha...ha...!
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You have a magical piece of cinematic information! I have been trying to remember the name of that movie for a few years now and keep drawing a blank on it. What is it?

coyotebc said:
Correct, but it might be a waste of money ordering one from the US only to have Customs seize it.
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Very true!

Also ignorance of the law is no exscuse...
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Yes, unfortunately I am fully aware of this long-standing nonsense in "free" countries like The United States and Canada.

In the early days of both countries it could have been realistic because there were so few laws even a somewhat dull person could be expected not to become an outlaw except by conscious choice.

Now? Federal, State, City and County Laws? Legislatures for all getting together for months out of the year, every year, to create crisis after crisis and then offer up the solutions to the crisis they create in the form of law. The regular person cannot hope to keep up. Lawyers, of course, exist on part of this, there is no one lining up to rid the law of such a cancerous idea.

...would hate to see Pitdog buy one then be observed using it in public and get into trouble. If he knows it's prohibited and still makes or buys one then he knows the risks.
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I wouldn't want to see that happen either. Perhaps next time you and others should contact someone in such a situation privately instead of pointing it out on a public forum that is viewed by law enforcement personnel.
 
I suppose the question is: Would you rather have a pellet rifle or a blowgun as a hunting tool? I assume ammo would be easier to make with the blowgun.
 
Don; Love and Bullets....me thinks?

FWIW We live in a world where becoming an outlaw is far too easy.
 
I couldn't ship the whole Cold Steel blowgun to New Zealand so the seller sent me just the mouthpiece, darts and quivers and I bought the aluminium tubing locally (cheap).

The Cold Steel .68 ones make the .40 caliber darts look like toothpicks versus nails. My friends are always amazed at the power that the .68 ones produce, especially with the metal broadheads shooting into plywood - pliers are definitely required.

I modified the bamboo darts by adding an x-acto blade, bound with superglue and dental floss. They flew well - never tested on anything live yet.

Very accurate, but most importantly a whole LOT of fun.
 
Thanks for the information about the movies!

As far as the blowguns themselves, the Cold Steel renditions of the old Stupero .625 Magnum is an awesome thing to have. Some (or maybe all of them, I don't know) of the Stupero's were steel I think, you could actually use them as a hiking staff...the Cold Steel version would be OK for that, but nowhere near as sturdy as steel, obviously.

I would much rather have my scoped Daisy (1970s) Feinwerkbau up and running and use that for hunting (w/ Beeman 4.5mm pellets) or a Sheridan Blue Streak with a Williams Peep Sight and a couple thousand 5mm Beeman Pellets in stock.

However, you should have all of these things as well as slingshots. :)
 
orrey45 said:
Hey look what I found. I was cleaning out the garage and found these hanging on the wall.



The bottom one I painted to look camo and the top one is an extension to add to the end of another. They are all .40 cal.
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They all appear to have different style mouth pieces; which do you prefer and why? Do you load a dart from the mouth piece end then put the mouth piece on? If so why would'nt a trumpet mothpiece on a piece of aluminum tubing work as a blow gun? What is the Inner dia & outer dia of the tubing? Size in inches? What difference does the length make in the accuraccy or distance? Don Rearic i'd like to hear your comments if you have experience with blowguns.:cool:
 
Pitdog, I have a .50cal blowgun along with a .38 and .40 in 5 footers. I use the plastic broadheads. My son and I use them for rabbits and squirrel. We have a few small 18" and 24" for using in the house for practice on the electronic dart board. REAL fun.
 
1Tracker said:
They all appear to have different style mouth pieces; which do you prefer and why? Do you load a dart from the mouth piece end then put the mouth piece on? If so why would'nt a trumpet mothpiece on a piece of aluminum tubing work as a blow gun? What is the Inner dia & outer dia of the tubing? Size in inches? What difference does the length make in the accuraccy or distance? Don Rearic i'd like to hear your comments if you have experience with blowguns.:cool:
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The top one is not a mouthpiece, it is a connector so you could hook up two tubes together for a longer blowgun(not very good because the two pipes wouldnt line up exactly and sometimes the dart would get stuck). The other two are regular mouthpieces one with plastic bars across it so you can inhae the dart(load from the other end) the other has a narrower diameter so the conical plastic tail of the darts squishes on the way through so it can only go one way(load throught the mouthpiece). I perfer the second design. The trumpet mouthpiece could work but the moutpices fo blowguns are large enough to cover your mouth so you dont have to worry about air escaping. The length of the blowguns are 18", 24" and 36". The OD is .45" and ID is .41"(thanksto my handy digital caliper). I think the longer ones are barely more accurate. I would think anywhere between 24" and 48" wold be ideal, to long and its a pain to carry.

To shoot you dont need large volume of air, a short powerful burst is all thats needed. I have a small styrofoam target that I shoot with the wire darts/plastic tails, tons of fun and if I miss its only a pin hole on the wall. Very easy to aim and close to idiot proof.
 
1Tracker said:
Don Rearic i'd like to hear your comments if you have experience with blowguns.:cool:
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I always wanted one of the original Stupero .625 Magnums just like I always wanted, but never got around to getting, an original .38 Cal. Jivaro blowgun, both back in the 80s. Along with a Beeman ComBow Sling and "The Most Powerful Slingshot in The World," made by a guy named Sinclair in Nevada, if I remember correctly.

What I did manage to get back around 1984-1986 was a Yaqua .40 Cal. blowgun from Midwest Sport Distributors and later on a .40 Cal. Mega-Dart Gun.

The blowgun was a bit anemic for my needs, not very powerful. It would be funny. . .if it were not so stupid. . .but Canada apparently got a bone up its' politico about the Yaqua/Yaqui for some reason, whatever...

The MegaDart Gun was incredibly powerful, firing the same (cone only) caliber dart, .40.

But it was just as hard to aim as it was powerful. I wish I still had it. With today's diminutive and incredibly powerful and accurate laser sights, it would really be more effective. Simple too, powered by slingshot bands!

The current Cold Steel .625 blowguns are very, very powerful. They're like the Big, Bad Wolf of Blowguns, you'll huff and puff and strike something down. :D

I still have a .40 from the now MIA Midwest Sport, and it's fun to use. But for hunting, the Cold Steel pipes and darts are the way to go. Powerful, accurate and really lifts the blowgun out of the borderline dangerous toy category and into something that people in this forum can really depend on under certain conditions. The only thing I have not been able to test out yet are the actual razor heads that CS was supposed to have last spring - I'll have to get back to that.

At 30-45 feet, if you have a set of lungs on you, you can dent 2X4s with the stun darts with the ball on the end. You can break glass with it. With the little mini-broadheads made out of steel, they will sink to "pliers required" depth easily in wood.

With the actual razor darts or carefully sharpened mini-broadheads made out of metal and some conditioning to get the most out of your lungs and practice for accuracy, I don't have any doubt these will kill small game. You might have to hang tight while they bleed out as is often the case with much more powerful hemorrhage-based weapons like broadhead-tipped arrows, but it will work. A cuts a cut, a stab is just a cut on the inside...these are just smaller cuts, etc.
 
When I was young, we made blowguns out of thin copper piping and needles from the family cork board; made paper cones and taped them to needles and they would stick in a wooden door from about 20 ft. Not bad for a pre-teen!!! No experience with professional blows...
 
My friend Joel and I have been using blowguns for years. It's really fun to go squirrel hunting with them. Since they don't have a loud crack when the projectile leaves the tube, you can usually get more than one shot off if needed without scaring everything away. There is definitely something in the human makeup that is instinctively good at using a blowgun. Since Joel made Srgt. and joined the SF, I don't see him as much anymore, but anytime he comes to visit, we break out the blowguns and play a few games of "Double Up". Double Up is a drinking game that he and I made up. It's not the safest thing in the world if there are spectators, but it is damn fun. The object is to shoot a dart into the back of an existing dart. The first shooter picks a spot anywhere around to shoot the first dart. The second shooter has to get his dart to hit and stick in the back of the first dart. If he can get it, the first shooter must take a shot. If he misses, but the first shooter can hit his own dart, then the second shooter must take two shots. Needless to say, it gets harder and harder as the game goes on. Like I said, not the safest game in the world, but once you play it, it's hard to stop. As for being useful in the wild, after some practice, you can get deadly accurate with them and it's an easy way to get a bird, squirrel, or other small animal. You can even make your own ammo. I'd still prefer a rifle if it was serious, but blowguns are fun.
 
I think they are so instinctive simply because the muzzle is up in your line of sight and that's about it.
 
I had a blowgun a long time ago....gave it a whirl & then gave it away....I went squirrel hunting with it ,to "test it out" ,4ft blow gun ,darts w/hunting tips and I am wandering aimlessly thru the creek & wooded area looking for these fiesty squirrels, ok I line one up and I huffed and puffed and bingo bango got me a squirrel or shall I say I hit him...he was mad as a hornet,squeaking and calling his brothering for back up,I thought he gave me the finger but I could not tell,anywhoo,I pulled out my H&R 22 revolver and popped him before his back up showed...that was the end of my blow gun journey, not for me...pistol /rifle or a big rock...
 
I agree, I had less than stupendous results with rabbit and squirrel and the .40 Cal. pipes in the 80s. But the larger .625 and the darts from CS really can take small game.
 
Here are the URL's for web sites that have lots of Mega-Dart blowgun info:

http://megadartguns.weebly.com/

http://airgunenthusiast.weebly.com/

-Dan

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