I made a magnum blowgun tonight.
Last week I got to use a friend's homemade blowgun which was made using instructions from this page.
http://www.geocities.com/blowgunhunter/
At 9 yards, that blowgun shot its darts all the way through an empty soda can, up to the paper cone on the the dart.
I got my own piece of 1/2 inch electrical conduit, some 1/8 inch dowel rods, and a PVC reducing coupler that fit the conduit okay. All the parts were in the same store, so it was easy to find a coupler that was smooth on the inside that fit the conduit okay.
I used one layer of duct tape on the conduit to make the PVC coupler fit snugly.
I'll try to post some pics tomorrow of the blowgun, the darts, and its performance from 10 yards away.
I've yet to make broadhead darts yet, so I'm just using "field points" for target practice. In other words, just dowel rods sharpened with a pocket knife.
My total cost is right at $6.50, and I've got 8 darts so far. And 48 inches of 1/8 inch dowel rod costs about .49 cents.
Compare to the "magnum blowgun" sold by Cold Steel for quite a bit more.
www.coldsteel.com/blowguns.html
Although, I did measure the bore of my blowgun with my reloading calipers, and it measures .62 inches. So I wonder if those Cold Steel .625 darts might not fit pretty well??????
A new way to hunt squirrels!
hillbilly
Last week I got to use a friend's homemade blowgun which was made using instructions from this page.
http://www.geocities.com/blowgunhunter/
At 9 yards, that blowgun shot its darts all the way through an empty soda can, up to the paper cone on the the dart.
I got my own piece of 1/2 inch electrical conduit, some 1/8 inch dowel rods, and a PVC reducing coupler that fit the conduit okay. All the parts were in the same store, so it was easy to find a coupler that was smooth on the inside that fit the conduit okay.
I used one layer of duct tape on the conduit to make the PVC coupler fit snugly.
I'll try to post some pics tomorrow of the blowgun, the darts, and its performance from 10 yards away.
I've yet to make broadhead darts yet, so I'm just using "field points" for target practice. In other words, just dowel rods sharpened with a pocket knife.
My total cost is right at $6.50, and I've got 8 darts so far. And 48 inches of 1/8 inch dowel rod costs about .49 cents.
Compare to the "magnum blowgun" sold by Cold Steel for quite a bit more.
www.coldsteel.com/blowguns.html
Although, I did measure the bore of my blowgun with my reloading calipers, and it measures .62 inches. So I wonder if those Cold Steel .625 darts might not fit pretty well??????
A new way to hunt squirrels!
hillbilly