Excellent video! Blowguns are a vastly underrated tool. I'm a bit obsessed with them, having 5 or 6 at all times (including a brand new setup still in packaging for a friend or a backup). Eager to move into a house butted up near some woods, and come fall hunt some squirrels. I'd love some rawhide bowstrings and stew for a fall treat! Keep up the fun work, i'm envious! Beautiful darts!

Awesome video. way cool Dart

I build some stone tipped darts and a tribal member said they didnt use stone tipped dart in the past ,I said how do you know?

Does the paper “click” into place like the plastic ones do?

Try using milk jug plastic it melts perfectly to make cones for darts

If you can get some rough New York Chert it’s almost as sharp but won’t break. I have a very small blowgun I’ve been experimenting with and just came across your channel. Extremely helpful. Thanks man

Phesant mount would be very cool please share!

Perfection, thank you for existing

product list please. amazon link for your exact blowgun

Hell yes

Too Much long Work for a projectile that Can bé used once and bé forever Lost. It is not economical. Maybe you Can use a tooth or a claw or a Bone if you do not want to use métal. A metal nail is enough i Would Say.

1/2" electrical conduit/ not extrusion conduit is 40 cal l have made many of them and they work awesome

A coat of hide glue after attachment to dart shaft

Put a light glazing of pine pitch over the sinew after you get it set, that should give ya a good seal..

An idea for cone material might try punk wood it's similar to balsam wood and would work easily

The smaller point will penetrate deeper because the force (mass X velocity) is centered in a smaller area. Also, reducing the weight of the point will increase the velocity using the same energy (blowing) to propell. I wonder how many millennia it took our ancestors to figure it out by trial and error?

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Awesome hunt ! Looks like a real challenge... I've done a lot of slingshot hunting and with my bow . But this looks like something I'd really like to try ...

Good video I love blow gun hunting and fishing

If you take a pice of wood palm size oval shaped and glue some lether to it it will help in the knapping part . It works really well

Use balsa or cork for a cone. When you get it shaped, fire it to harden the wood

Why dont you use thistle 33:28 downlike the cherokee and other southeastern tribes did and still do ,they also make darts from the cane they also use for the blow tubes M

I got a good idea for a natural cone use corn cob pith

I have been hunting with my blow pipe for about 45 years now. I use points that I hammer forge from nails. They work great on things up to Racoons in size.

Where about do you live? Thats the most mullein ive seen in a few years and have hunting some...lol

Instant sub....what a cool channel...I Knapp, bowhunt (primitive,trad and modern), watch Ryan gill and am just in awe that another channel exists that I had no idea about ...keep it up sir!

Have you heard of using "Pith" for the cones? Google Tribal dart quiver.

I have found many small points some only a little over one eight inch wide triangle in shape where they was a large camp probly used for hundreds of years the last to inhabit these camps were the Creeks before Jackson pushed them out I have always thought they were blowgun points other people said they were just small arrowheads

Try birchbark for your cones. Some other barks might work well also. Just a thought. Like the video

Dude I just found your channel and am so looking forward to more content. Love the blowgun stuff and the anthropomorphic taxidermy. I hunt american reds up here in Alaska, little mfers move so fast that they often dodge the dart. Is there a dart weight you recommend for higher speed? I'm showing my gf this video right now on the tv, were so blown away by the squirrel warriors! Awesome. Would be cool to make an ermine warrior 😁

What do you do when the point comes off do you just reuse the shaft and Knapp another point

Could you try that same thing with some glass bottles I don’t have any flint or anything in my area

thanks for the vid. i learned something new. cheers! Minnesota!

Great video, sir! I make little ABO-style darts using dried Johnsongrass stems about 6" long. Fletch the tail-end of the shaft (like an arrow) and put some cotton at the base of the point to act as piston material! use a small twig to help shove the cotton (or whatever natural material) into the blowgun and have at it! The shaft and fletching are super light and the center of gravity is very far forward. Stable and FAST darts.

I under if rabit lether taned harder would work man this is awsome your helping me

Very interesting,have to make some

Great vid , you’ve given me an idea, I’ve been using thin bamboo skewers but they don’t stabilize well due to they’re light weight. I’m gonna try cutting down some denser tree shoots.

Is your blowgun also homemade?

Nice

That's an awesome way to do it. Supercool!

You are correct that is the way to distribute the weight in a drag stabilized dart.

Really cool.

Great stuff! Keep the content coming!

amazing