Fletched Blowdart!
Hey, recently I have made myself a 5ft. blowgun from steel 3/4in. conduit pipe with a 1 1/2 in. brass pipe for mouthpiece. Anyway, my dad is a bowyer by trade and has been making up arrows as of...
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very cool. and good idea about the feathers if your darts are wobbly it might help to make the cotton fletchin longer and a bit more fluffier around it'll slow it down but it should make it fly...
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I have seen blowdarts from a museum where the tail of the shaft was split and a triangular bit of leaf was pushed into the split and bound up again. This was then shot with a ball of fluff that wasnt...
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That is pretty nice work. Not sure I could pull that off myself but if it makes the dart fly farther, I may just give it a go.
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Buy some Duco Cement, just a clear glue that comes in a green tube, and use that too glue the feathers, and too stick the feathers too the shaft while they are gluing I would suggest pinning them with...
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try them without the cotton attached and they should stay straighter. lack of weight on the front and excess weight on the rear is making them turn. you can also add a spike or mini broad head to give...
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Ahhhhhh I will try that for sure. I do flintknapping, though nothing fancy I make arrheads and knives, if it works I will probably make some flint heads.
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I once shot a blow gun dart( steel flea market type) through a half inch piece of plywood using a air compressor!
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What kind of darts would I need too down a red squirrel? I shoot them with pellet guns, (.22 500fps. pellet gun works great,) and I know it takes a good whump to take 'em down, I have hit them just...
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O.k. so how you make a blowgun shotgun, it's still being perfected but will drive 18 bamboo barbecue skewers through a heavy cardboard box at about 10-15ft. First you make a plug from a dowel or board...
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the keyword is "hunting", i haven't had too much luck killing, lol. red squirrels are some tough little critters. i've seen my dad take half the head off of one with 3 shots of his .22lr and it was...
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Thanks for that Panbreaux, some very good advice there. Don't tell the game warden, but normally I bring my dog, (small beagle/terrier mix) out with me and let him run them down after I pop them out...
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Ive hunted grey squirrels with a 55# long bow for years. Ive had many of them run off with my arrows, only to find the arrows many days later a few hundred yards from where I shot them, Ive baged a...
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Those Greys are one of the toughest things I've ever seen. 1 day when I was in my early teens we spotted one on a telephone pole. 3 of us pumped shot after shot of .177 pellets into him and he barely...
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