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Article: Blow guns can be useful, but they aren't legal everywhere.
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- Countryside & Small Stock Journal
- Article date:
- May 1, 2005
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I bought my first blowgun back in 1966 as a teenager. I paid $8.95 for a six-foot blowgun and 200 darts. It was all I could have since we had been forced off the farm and yet I wanted to keep shooting. Town folk didn't like kids with firearms.
I have, over the years, had more than a dozen blowguns including a few I made myself. Still this weapon of the dark ages of mankind had a big drawback. The weapon could not be aimed down. Oh, it worked shooting level or at animals up in a tree but to aim with the blowgun below a 90[degrees] angle would dump the dart every time.
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