The beauty of the blowdart

Ferno · Post by **Ferno** » Sun May 22, 2005 2:37 am

roid · Post by **roid** » Sun May 22, 2005 6:52 am

heh. anyone actually got one?
(they are illegal here)

someone here got me interested a while back and i tracked down some neat videos of them in action.

Stryker · Post by **Stryker** » Sun May 22, 2005 7:41 am

I've been tellin' yall, all along...

Pun · Post by **Pun** » Sun May 22, 2005 8:04 am

I used to have one when I was a kid. Ordered it out of the back of Soldier of Fortune magazine. it came with a do-it-yourself dart making kit. You'd cut the rod to the length you wanted, then heat it up and plunge it into a plastic bead. We started experimenting with longer than recommended darts with multiple beads on the end. I remember being able to completely penetrate a piece of half inch plywood with those things. They are truly dangerous and very very accurate. you could easily wax an unsuspecting bird with it. Wish I still had it.

JMEaT · Post by **JMEaT** » Sun May 22, 2005 8:31 am

Bwhahaha

Ferno · Post by **Ferno** » Mon May 23, 2005 12:54 pm

lol. crazy stuff pun.

WarAdvocat · Post by **WarAdvocat** » Tue May 24, 2005 6:45 am

Yep, they're insanely evil. We just used the beads to tag people. Not as accurate, but omg.. the welts.

woodchip · Post by **woodchip** » Tue May 24, 2005 7:36 am

If you are interested, here's link to where you can buy them (and see the different types made:

http://www.selfdefenseproducts.com/blowguns.htm

snoopy · Post by **snoopy** » Tue May 24, 2005 1:53 pm

I remember making pretty dangerous projectiles out of a hair clip, rubber band, and straw... They wouldn't penetrate plywood very well, but they could stick a soft-barked tree pretty well at close range... their main problem was accuracy.

Dedman · Post by **Dedman** » Wed May 25, 2005 8:37 am

We used to make pretty deadly projectile weapons out of a triangular architechts scale, blue pencil lead, scotch tape, and a rupper band.

The thing would create enough power to bury itself a few inches deep into a wall.

Stryker · Post by **Stryker** » Wed May 25, 2005 10:13 am

I made a weapon out of paper and scotch tape capable of firing 20 feet with pinpoint accuracy and hard enough to cut you.

Top Gun · Post by **Top Gun** » Wed May 25, 2005 10:52 am

You guys all related to MacGuyver?

Hostile · Post by **Hostile** » Wed May 25, 2005 12:02 pm

I remember my first blowgun. We used a straw and some chewed up paper on the bus driver!!!!

Liquid Fire · Post by **Liquid Fire** » Wed May 25, 2005 12:27 pm

I once made a weapon out of a pen, a rubber band, and some bbs.

It fired fast enough to penetrate bark from 20 feet away and was very precise. Now that I think about it, it might be a good idea to make another one.

DCrazy · Post by **DCrazy** » Wed May 25, 2005 12:31 pm

After the store closes (I work at Staples) and we've got nothing better to do, we take those mini sharpies and insert a rubber band into the clip. Those things are accurate, but not really painful, and a hell of a lot of fun.

SuperSheep · Post by **SuperSheep** » Wed May 25, 2005 12:43 pm

Made several blowguns as kids, usually out of in-line straws, a needle and some thread. But, that got old after a while, ya know, using our lungs, so...

We bought a high power CO2 rifle and loaded our home made blow darts in that.

1/2", pffft. These suckers would go through 1/2" of plywood and about halfway into a 2x4. heh.