Home-made blowpipes
 

I never understood how the ancient people used to be able to shoot and hit birds and animals with blowpipes, but now I sure do. Those things are awesome!

Some people worked on the aircons at the office and there was a bunch of straight copper pipes left over, so we messed around with them making blowpipes to see if that could be a useful addition to our "office wars" armoury.

For the darts we rolled magazine paper (glossy is best) into a conical shape and hardened them with glue, so they are light but pretty stiff.

Best pipe length seems to be 52cm. I cant comment on the ideal diameter as ours were all the same (6mm). Best dart length is about 13cm.

Takes under 2 seconds for a dart to travel about 20 yards and penetrate a cardboard box, and accuracy is incredible, even for the unskilled.

It rocks!

Sounds neat! Wonder how much "work" you guys are doing at work lol!

I bought a "real" pipe out of a magazine with the darts and enjoyed the hell out of that thing. Unfortunately I've lost all the darts!!

an aluminum arrow with the ends cut off makes a great blow gun.

A simple 1/2 PVC can shoot a nail with a paper cone on the back pretty damn far.

yay, im gonna have fun this weekend

thanks tekaweni