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who hunts with a blowgun?

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recurve shooter:
i know blowguns have been mentioned a few times on the forum, but id like to know who all hunts with them and what you killed. some info on your pipe would be nice, pics better if you can. the reason i bring this up is because me and Ian were at islandpiper's boat builders rendezvous toady and one of the builders had his gun there, and after playing with it we went home and made ours. Ian has a Cold Steel big bore which is a little bigger than a half inch, and i quickly made up a little six and a half foot one out of electrical conduit, and few darts out of dowels, and i just made us up some broadhead darts out of some scrap steel and dowels. when i was a kid i Had a homemade one like the one i just made and i killed a few birds with it, but nothing really worth mentioning. i love these things cuz they are easy as heck to make, and the darts are easy so its no biggie when i break or lose one, which happens alot lol. so yeah lets see or hear about em guys if your into it.  ;D ;D

Dane:
I slayed a mighty black widow spider with mine. :) No, I really did. I had one of those aluminum ones with the darts made out of plastic beads with piano wire for the dart body. The thing was a ton of fun, and super easy to learn to use, but as for hunting, I think I read that people who used the things to hunt game used poison. That includes hunting people. 

Dane

recurve shooter:
yeah those little ones are fun but kinda usless. the big half inch ones can shoot big heavy darts with wide sharp steel points, and i assume they would be pretty deadly on birds of any kind, squirrels, and with the right shot placement, rabbits. i thought there would be more guys interested in this lol.

Badger:
We used to make them from 1/2" electrical tubing, the darts were about 6" of coathanger steel with gause and tape for a seal. Killed many pigeons shooting up into the palm trees where they hung out. Not much power to them for anyhting larger than birds and probably better suited for poison tips. Steve

Mechslasher:
hopefully hillbilly or barry will chime in on this one.  i've seen some of their cherokee type blowguns made out of cane. 

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