Blowgun

This is the most simple toy to have hours of fun with!

Step 1: Materials

Requirements

-PVC tube: diameter of 1 cm (0.39 inch); Length can range from 20 to say 100 cm (7.9 to 40 inch). Longer barrels are more accurate, but harder to carry around in combat and require a longer breathe to operate.
-magazine page
-adhesive tape
-a pair of scissors
-sandpaper

Comments

[freeza36]

Hey i just wanted to know your input to the question that Higgs Boson, myself, and another one of our friends are all asking. What can be done to make the blowguns better at this point? Yours and ours are practically identical, except for the darts. Even with the best darts we can make, they still only ever shoot accurately at a max 35 feet. What do you think?

[bcavaciuti]

if you make yours out of metal(copper or aluminum) about 4-5ft depending on your breathe add a mouth peice out of plastic and duct tape or glue on a small funnel (i use a small latex kitchen funnel with the spout cut off and hot glued to the end) and look at some nail,wire,disposable craftknife darts you can even go hunting with them with an average range of 50 to 100 feet :) i am waiting till summer to remake mine and am gonna ask a local farmer if im allowed to hunt on his land after ive got pinpoint accuracy

[freeza36]

I don't like using a mouthpiece. I tried a couple.

[SPYBOOM]

HOW LONG SHOULD THE PIPE BE

[casvandegoor]

about 20 to 30 cm for this instructable. But often real blowguns are much longer. Check out this instructable.

[excessive.insurgence]

Whats the diameter of the PVC???

[casvandegoor]

 About 1.5 cm (0.6 inch)

[Vator]

Why do not use normal copy paper?

[casvandegoor]

You can use copy paper. I shouldn't have said "NOT normal copy paper" (I published this instructable a long time ago)

Advantages using magazine paper:
-Cones are easier to make
-Cones are stronger
-Cones remain usable when they're moist (from breath)

Have fun!

[Jonsta]

Put a nail in the end and push it down with a long screwdriver, then drop in some resin. Perfect for hunting!

[JosiePosie76]

We made several 4 foot long pvc pipe blow dart guns.... Very, VERY accurate.... We made the darts out of electrical nut covers(the yellow ones) and hand ground metal darts..... Very cool indeed....

[AlternateLives]

This reminds me of a story of one of my classmates and an impromptu blowgun. he used one of the big plastic pixie stick tubes and a tack. unfortunately for him, he inhaled instead of exhaled, and swallowed the tack.

the tube is still posted on our science teacher's bulletin board.

[slifenoa286]

ow.

[a_person]

I used copy paper and it worked just fine check out my instructable for the stuff on a stick contest http://www.instructables.com/id/Micro-and-Super-Micro-stick-shooters/

[Weaponsmaster]

Loving the simplicity! Perfect design... Until you cut your lip

[rrrmanion]

can you use cardboard tubing? like foil and things come on.

[_Scratch_]

u misspelled scissor

[BOOM5601]

Thank you, grammar cop.

[wax54]

he mispelled it allot mr. angry

[your dog]

great instructable!

 just my 2 cents
instead of paper, duct tape works well.
you can also use a pen cap from a marker- it fits snuggly

[Deep Blue]

making is spelt wrong

[xxxxiii1]

You can use the darts more often if you reinforce the end with tape

[aoehero]

If you roll a pin or better yet a needle into the dart they become formidable. Or you can just throw the dart for effect.

[mastermaker]

hahaha,my blowguns are a bit more complex and im in middle school so my friends like em a lot. The first thing to do is take apart 2 pens so you have perfectley circular tubes and tape them apart as good and as straight as you can,then you can wrap some sort of thread around the middle as a handle,but thats optional. The second thing you need is the dart,i usualley just roll up a nice cone of paper then after sticking a staples in the top,some tissue and glue and tape,i get a solid dart that shoots a really far distance and can stab into things(never shoot the teacher!) I sometimes can use these because there a lot more secretive and sometimes i use dummey darts on my friends(they arent sharp but they sting like hell even with thicker clothing on) and even after modifying one ive came up with a gun i can fit into my mouth that is rubber-band loaded that can shoot sharp staples 20+ feet and completeley undetectable, im good at this stuff beleive me

[DanDiego]

I have made blow guns that shoot standard push pins! Although they do not look aerodynamic, they fly point first and will stick in a cork board or even drywall. Just take a push pin to your local hardware store and buy a piece of tubing that is just slightly bigger than the diameter of the push pin. Make the tube at least two feet long. Hold the tube almost level but slightly tilted down away from you before you insert the push pin (pointy-end first). Be very careful not to take a breath with the tube in your mouth or you could swallow the push pin! Range of the blow gun varies with the length. Blow hard and you will see the push pin fly and stick into your target. With practice you can get quite accurate.

[ellisgeek]

um..... how do u make the "darts"

[Kazeem]

Spiral rolls of paper... like... where you roll it from the corner... when u put it in your gun, you can then mark where it touches the edge, with a felt tip, and cut round there, to keep it sealed well in the gun, but not too tight

[themakeitguy]

nice job on the dart shape! putting a nail through the tip is a bit better than a coat hanger, and you can try different sizes :P

[illdoyourdrugs]

Not bad but a real blowgun uses needles. you want your projectile to stick. Nice non-lethal one though.

[zobbs]

acually needls are to brital use small tacking nails

[illdoyourdrugs]

Ive used them with no problem. The one i made that i was reffering to was a very small portable one using a bic pen as the barrel.

[PKTraceur]

it does not use "needles" as you call them. they are "Darts"

[casvandegoor]

My father teached me to make these when I was 6 or 7. Ideed the longer blowguns with iron pins are the 'real' ones. But I liked to make this simple one an instructable. I did tried a blowgun with needles, which was fun, though you could not battle with someone else.

[ruiqim]

Yeah, right. Your father "teached" you how to make these.

[bennor3]

no offense but you spelled scisor wrong.

[kser]

he was trying to tell oss how he spelt it he or she did it on purpose

[chardster]

Dont criticize someone if you make the same mistake. hahaha.

[iPodTouchMaster08]

so did you

[casvandegoor]

haha

[benthekahn]

"adhesive tape, or you can use also normal tape" What's the difference?