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How would you make a wooden blowgun ?

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bowandarrow473:
River cane or the large invasive stuff that looks like a 20ft cornstalk (Arundo Donax?) woks well, also Japanese Arrow Bamboo or really any other member of the bamboo family will work well. Also, elderberry shoots work too but be warned, the stuff is slightly poisinous and must be dried thoroughly and a mouth buffer added so as to ensure you don't get sick from the wood.

riverrat:
if i made one out of bamboo or cane instead of splitting it, cleaning nodes, then glueing and wrapping i think id find a long steel rod the same diam. i want for my darts. heat it up till it glows red, shove it down the tube. keep doing this until its done.Tony

ekalavya:
So you all prefer bamboo or the better american rivercane.
I guess I will try. As plan B i thought of using a plastic tube surrounded by wood and
filling free space with asphalt, pitch , tar or some kind of wax. However working with asphalt, pitch
and tar would be new to me.

@TrevorM
I am sure a tube is still legal in those states. So unless you make a mouth piece or blowgun darts
it should be legal in those states too. it can not be that you have to remove your water pipes
and can not use a shower any more , because someone claims those are or could be used as
weapons.
It is even possible some metal tubes/pipes are used as primitive firearms , zip guns, samopal and so on.
They are not under gun law and matches are not ammo, although they could be used as such.
Also the possession of tobacco is legal, although deadly poison can easily be made out of it.

The odd thing is that this prohibition might be even against the US constitution for decades when not longer.
As i remember the US constitution says "all citiziens have the right to wear arms or so" .... this was even extended
to automatic and semi-automatic weapons. So a gun barrel is legal , but not when you blow a dart through it.
Although when you use precompressed air form another source it would be a primitive air gun or air softgun and
that would be legal. So together with a trigger , a plastic bottle , a pump and some isolation it would be perfectly legal
in those states too.

TrevorM:
Just what I was thinking. It seems like one of those almost pointless laws where unless you got a really dumb cop or were doing something you shouldn't anyway they'd never bust you for it. Still something to keep in mind for anyone that does live in one of those places I guess.

It's funny, when I was a kid I'd make them out of old pens and shoe laces with pins in them for darts. I was breaking the law and didn't even know it  ;D

mullet:
I believe the Cherokee's made them the way Tony describes. The first one I saw was made that way by Jonathan and he had it at PatB's first Camporama. We were trying to shoot darts with stone points through it.

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