50 cal blowgun mod

Any size tubing would work. The darts can be blown out of electrical tubing, PVC, carbon fiber, fiberglass, ali, all of which work well. You can also make you own darts with some practice. Getting them to group and fly consistent may prove to be a challenge. Certainly heavier gauge wire could be used. I have used coathanger wire spun on a grinder to create a point in .625cal configuration. Also used skish-kee-bob stakes as shafts as well as 1/8″, 3/16″ diameter wood dowels. The cone base will be the hard part as a light, flimsy, paper or plastic film cone will not do. Something like a electricians wire nut might work. Or go with the prefabed dart deals although the sites i listed have some interesting darts to say the least.
here is some links. The micro tank or a shimmed tank might do the trick. The idea of the short ones in .40 are hard to say as its all about air volume. There might be enough area to displace the additional air letting you get by with just a 40cal. as far as i know you’d be the first to try.
http://www.polar-electric.com/Blowgun/Darts/index.html
http://www.geocities.com/caliber625/index.html?200621

Just say when… I’ve got a few guns here to shoot 8)

First you pee into a windstorm now this!!!

When will the madness stop!?!

😛

Rob I’ll have to agree…I think the talon would be way to much…unless you shot alot heavier dart. I think part of the succes, with the co2 was the fact that you always get a little liquid co2 in the mix until your cart is about gone. This would simulate a blown breath as the small amount of liquid expands going down the barrel..I’m not sure the the intial blast off a talon valve would be right….However I too am no expert on the subject..Just built one and got lucky…You know I could have turned the valve down on that bad boy and it would have probably been better…Nahhhhh why ruin something that cool !!!!!!! Byt hte way Rob what part of NC are you in…

the one I built was deadly accurate…At the time my chrony was down and when I got a new I never thought to test the velocities….I can tell you the valve was shooting 14.3 gr cp’s at 750 fps. If memory serves me correct the darts were around 16 to 21 gr so roughly that translates into around 600 fps ( same length barrel )…here was the problem though..I know you seen pictures or most of us here have done it…Picture a dart with the shaft half thru a piece of 1/2 ply wood…Had one,,,had to test it at 10 feet sure enough…well out the crosman 30 feet straight thru and it would pop the end off every time.. Or bend the living piss out of the wire…Manage to take 2 squirells and 1 Dove with it..Then I picutred on of the kids getting the piece of wire in the foot because it would go clean thru and pop the end off on the squirell too… So then i had the bright idea to increse the wire size. shot the dove at 15 yrds and blew it all to pieces…was gonna eat it too…

You speaking from experience there rob? 😛

I’d like to see a blowgun thing. Dnc was thinking about it a while back. Of course, without anything to make parts, it’s just hopes.

I think it’d be wicked. There was that arrow shooting think that I think lemak made. If that’s possible why not a blowgun.

I think you should try and get them going as fast as possible, just to see what they can do. Then figure out how fast you can make it go with accuracy.

Be cool. 🙂