Blowguns!

Fuckin’ Hillbillys….. 😉 😆

These look pretty cool. you can put 7 of them in together, then put the cone behind them and blow them out…they open a little in flight, like a shotgun!!

I would stay away from the poison!!!
if you get caught it federal, and the shit aint an instant kill anyways… takes some time ya know 😉

them bull frogs need to be taken out with the air gun then eaten…. dam I miss me some frog legs, don’t have any around here 😡
bull frogs are hard to kill, I use to hunt them with a slingshot and some heavy assed ball shot. direct head shots are a must and even then it just kind of stuns them for a few seconds, if your not quick to retrieve them they are gone… a blow gun will just put a dart in them that they will swim off with and die a ruff death

not to sure if a gig tip would fly good in a blowgun… you will have to let us know hoe it works

Go to Lowe’s and get some copper pipe, then make some darts, then shoot them into some closed cell foam…
Shooting airguns into silent trap…well, there’s a lot of articles on here about how to make one of those 😀 Again, a trip to Lowe’s is in order 😛

EDIT:

Just found a picture of what I’m talking about with making your own cones with a milk carton, torch and plumb bob…this uses a different style plumb bob, but it will still work!

Here is a GREAT way to make your own darts…
first, get a plumb bob…like this

Then get a small propane torch (for repairing copper water lines).
Then get a plastic milk jug.

Now, use the torch to GENTLY…GENTLY…GENTLY warm a small area on the plastic milk jug, about 2″ diameter. When it turns clear-ish then stick the point of the plumb bob into the center and hold it still for a few seconds while it cools off. Do this many times throughout the milk jug.

Then, get a piece of copper or steel tubing the same size as your blow gun and sharpen the end of it to make a little sharp edge (like a hole punch). Use that over the pointed end of your new ‘cones’ that have been formed by the plumb bob and using a wooden plank underneath it, smack it with a hammer and ‘cut’ out the little plastic cones.

Now, you can decide what type of shaft you want to use. Steel, bamboo, plastic, wooden dowel etc etc.

Then all you have to do is take a pair of scissors and cut a tiny bit off the very tip of the newly formed cone and slide the shaft onto the cone. A dab of cyanoacrylate will hold everything together and VOILA! A very CHEAP, nicely uniform dart, AND they’re VERY easy, cheap and quick to make.

ENJOY!!

I’ve been shhoting .40s and a Cold Steel .625 “Big Bore” for awhile. The Mini broadheads (50 packs) are nasty. At 30-40 feet, they’ll stick hard into wood. The plastic cones are irregular and usually can be sorted and corrected with scalding hot water>shaping>cooling. Pretty damn accurate when you practice. I’ve killed birds in our greenhouse and nailed everything from flying squirrels to bats in the house. I usually don’t waste the flyers, but this one kept me up at night and was evicted a bunch of times…stuck it to the wall.

Here are some tips: your breath will condense after some shots and slow the darts down; let the pipe dry out a bit.

Target acquisition for me is to point “muzzle” at and slightly below target and focus on target. You should see a double image of the muzzle end. Depending on right/left eye strength, put the target in the center of the double image at first. Correct as indicated.

Breath control is paramount for consistent accuracy. I build up pressure in the lungs and cheeks, plugging the front lips with my tongue. Suddenly, squeeze cheeks and exhale from the diaphragm as you move your tongue out of the way. Takes a bit of practice to do all this while keeping the blow pipe steady on target. But, Amazonian natives collected hummingbirds for an ornithologist by shooting them all through the eyes! (This was after he complained that he couldn’t use the skins on specimens shot through the body-the skin would rip apart when skinning.)

Some cool, carved blow guns also come out of Borneo, if you know where to look.

A pizza box, stuffed tightly with magazines and newspapers, makes a good target. If you use a block of wood, keep pliers handy!

The Cold Steel mini broadheads are a bit heavy, I believe. So, they may travel faster if shortened and weighed-out. I’ll be cutting some of the wires to see what happens. The pipe on the big bore is pretty good; I got the single piece, long one. The darts are irregular, but can be modified. The flattened wire is the best part.

You can make a damn nice hunter from golf tees, spin-sanded in an electric drill, until they barely fit a chrome pipe. Sand the pointed tip flat. Drill a pilot hole for a brad with the head snipped off; that’s yer tip. Super fine copper wire, e.g. phone cable wire, can be used to even weight by wrapping the tip. Punched through a Blue Jay with one of those. That design splits on hard targets.

Have fun! You might not shoot yer eye out, but if you shoot too much, you’ll get dizzy 😆

yeah anything that was a moving shadow
have scars still when it freaked out and bolted over my shoulder only to pile drive the wall behind me