.68cal Paintball Marker + .40cal Blowdart gun = ?

[Snowdog]

A few weeks ago, there were several incidents in my area involving people shot with blowdart guns. After the second or third attack, the "weapon" used was described as a "blow-gun attached to a paintball gun". In one attack, a fellow was shot in the head while waiting at a red light with his windows down. The dart had to be removed at a local hospital. It was believed all attacks were carried out at significant distances, according to the media.
Last I heard, there were detailed physical descriptions of two suspects, but I don't know if arrests have yet been made (I've just returned from NYC on a trip, not up to snuff on local news).

Here's an article from Citizen-Times describing the attacks:
http://www.citizen-times.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?aid=/20060614/news01/60614009/1071/webextras

I've thought about mating a paint marker and blowgun together in the past and now that I have a paintball gun (Tippmann C3 Propane-powered pump action marker), I would like to see if I could attach a .40 caliber blowdart tube inside the barrel, in a detachable/semi permanent manner. However, after these fairly recent attacks in my town and surrounding areas, I might cool my jets for a while. However, I would love to chrono some darts from my C3 with dart tube somehow attached.

Has anyone ever mated these things together? If so, what were the results?
I would be tickled to have a gas-powered dart gun that sent inexpensive/disposable darts sailing over long distances with consistancy that afforded some level of accuracy! Crows beware!

I am also concerned with the laws involving such a contraption. I can't imagine how they would differ from laws governing paintball markers and blowdart guns. Both are perfectly legal in my state and township.

Any ideas/predictions on range/velocity/accuracy?

 

[spin180]

I've been wondering how these miscreants have been going about their harpooning myself.

No doubt, with a little ingenuity, fashioning a gas powered dart gun would be fairly simple, even with spare parts and makeshift supplies.

I wouldn't dismiss their using a plain ol' blowgun, though. Many years ago, while spending a weekend at a friend's house, I found myself under attack by someone using a blowgun. It was disguised as teenage fun, and stupidity. Nevertheless, I took a blowgun dart to the head; more correctly to the bony structure of my brow-ridge/bridge of my nose.

Seems another friend staying over thought it'd be fun to blow darts at me as I tried to come through a doorway. I dodged most, but the last one caught me less than half an inch above and to the side of my left eye. A hunting tip blowdart lodged in my skull. It took a couple of good tugs to get it out. As I recall the dude the shot me was about 40-50 feet away. I don't believe he was necessarily aiming at my head, but even at that distance the dart still had a lot of force behind it.

 

[Bill Henry]

Heard about similar ideas, AGREE about "cooling" on the idea for now

A fully auto paintball gun is capable of an incredible amount of firepower (especially some of the newer, extremely powerful models). Actually, I am new to the paintball arena, but the technology is extremely impressive when you begin to look at what seasoned "paint ballers" can do with their guns.

I do not know about the dart idea, but have heard about making "special paintballs" that contain more than paint. The idea has been around for a while (according to the several articles that I have read), but I would caution that the idea is a deadly one (hence the outcome of the incident in your town).

I live in rural LA, and paintballing is not a mainstream (if anything in rural LA can be considered mainstream) hobby. I, like you, have a facination with the limits that a paintball gun can be pushed too, but I would be very cautious about the application if you are successful in making a dart gun or related, potentially lethal weapon. More power to you in the success of building it. Be aware that LE would frown upon finding the contraption with ammo in the car.

When I was young (and dumb as a rock), a friend of mine and I (the friend is a doctor now - of all things) made a crude form of nitrogly. It went BOOM when we hit it with a pellet gun, but we could have been killed at the age of 16 for the crazy act. Cool idea for around the house protection or close in varmit hunting. I have a Benelli for the same thing. Works really well.

Again, more power to you. I just know it would be my luck to accidentally shoot my minister driving up the driveway coming to see the family!

Bill Henry

Paintball is a really cool sport.

 

[usmccpl]

I dont know about mating the two togather but I got this contraption uses 12 gram CO2 cylinders and a nipple to blow air into my blow gun. Using that shooting into close cell foam At 50 yards I loose my darts because they go in deep enough that the cones fall off and the wire keeps going a lil ways.





one shot one kill

 

[Roadwild17]

I already have done this. When I got a new barrel for my spyder, I took the stock barrel and and old blowgun I has (24"). Inserted the old blowgun shaft into the barrel and shimmed it to be fairly straight, then filled the barrel with epoxy. Set it standing up on a plastic bag (threaded part down) to dry. Then puled/riped the plastic bag off and it was ready to go. Only down side it was you had to unscrew the barrel and reload the contraception every time. Accuracy was a little better than the original blowgun and range was about 60 ft if I recall, I need to dig that thing up sometime.


This was just a novelty gun and hasn't been used in years, besides paintball is so much more fun, you target is moving AND shooting back at you usually

 

[RyanM]

They make .40 a caliber paintball gun already. Do a quick google search and tons of places selling them will pop up.

 

[Sharpdogs]

I have never heard of attaching a blowgun to a paint bail gun, but I guess it can be done. A blowgun by itself is very powerful and insanely accurate for such a primitive weapon. The .40 cal blowgun is the smallest, least powerful and most commonly sold of all the blowguns. The .50 and .62 calibers propel a much larger dart. All of them can cause serious damage. There are some people who hunt small animals (rabbits, rats, squirrels) with .62 caliber. I hope they catch the jerk who is doing this. The liberals will use it as another excuse to take away more of our freedoms and ban something else. On a side not the sport of blowgunning is very popular in Japan. It has a small but growing group of fans in the U.S.A.

 

[carebear]

You can stick a 16d sinker into a concrete block and have it hold from a good 30-40 feet using a paper cone and a 3' or so 5/8" glass tube from the chem lab.

Blowgun darts are on the list of "things I don't want shot at me".

 

[hillbilly]

To heck with the puny .40 caliber darts.

What you want are the MAGNUM darts from Cold Steel.

http://www.coldsteel.com/blowguns.html

These are already about .63 caliber on the fletchings.

You could actully muzzle load them, fletching first, down an existing paintball gun and ZAP!!!!

hillbilly

 

[Harry Tuttle]

wanna push the paintball envelope?

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