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blow gun darts fletched with mikweed fluff, cotton & squirrel
swamp monkey:
Here is a thistle fletched blowgun dart (top) compared to a milkweed fletched dart (below) I gave this one a flint tip by suggestion that is what the tiny "bird points" were really used for. While i cannot dispute their use on blowguns I read an article in PA a few issues back where a fellla used bird points to penetrate a deer without any trouble. I cannot see much use for putting a stone tip on a blowgun dart but I have not tested this like that fella did with the bird point arrows. That was a good article by the way.
The other pic is just the tip of one of my blowguns, I will post a blowgun later after I get the camera warmed up.
thanks for the kind words folks that means a lot more than I would have anticipated.
JackCrafty:
Awesome!
swamp monkey:
--- Quote from: stickbender on January 05, 2011, 12:33:40 am ---
Swamp Monkey;
Those are beautiful. How are you applying the thistle? Are you laying the thistle in your hand, and putting the string in a slit in the end of the dart, and rolling the dart, and finishing off by wrapping and pull through, or are you gluing piece by piece?
I watched a guy making them by rolling them in his hand, and it was quick, and beautiful when finished. Less than a minute. I tried one some time back, and it was no beauty, but it functioned quite well. I want to try again, and practice a bit. I have lots of thistle on my property in Montana. :P I want to make a blow gun, for them, with a piece of 1/2 inch copper tubing in a piece of cane.
Wayne
Wayne did I answer your question?
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stickbender:
Yes, you did, as well as those of others on here. Very nice drawings also. ;) Thanks.
Wayne
jthompson1995:
Has anyone ever tried or heard of a blow gun made from a sumac stem/branch?
It has a large pith that Native Americans would hollow out to use as a tap to collect maple sap.
I though if you could straighten a long enough section and remove the pith it might work and not have to worry as much about the nodes inside tearing up the darts as much.
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