anyone ever hunt with blowguns?

[hunt-tha-deer2324]

these are super fun and im just wondering if anyone else does any hunting with these things. theyre easy to make and pretty powerful, thats why i like them. i just never see it talked about on MS before.

[Jzack]

When I was little kid i used to have one. My old man would tell me to put salt in a paper bag and wait for the hard to catch snipe. For some reason I never got one!:dizzy:

[boehr]

these are super fun and im just wondering if anyone else does any hunting with these things. theyre easy to make and pretty powerful, thats why i like them. i just never see it talked about on MS before.Maybe because it isn't a legal method to hunt with. I'm just wondering what and where you hunt with them since you state they are super fun, you must use then eh?

[DANIEL MARK ZAPOLSKI]

that kinda reminds me back in the late 60's and early 70's when bow hunters tried to get the right to hunt with POISON tipped arrows:dizzy:i think they were watching way to many johnny wysmiller movies (TARZAN) they got that jungle fever.:bonk::coco:

[live2fishdjs]

In college we used to buy mice and hunt with them in our appartment. Does that count?

[zimmzala]

My buddy had a blow gun and bad mouse infestation at his house. We would bait them with dog food in the middle of the kitchen floor then take them. We never put out more than 2 gallons though! :lol:

[Garret]

My buddy had a blow gun and bad mouse infestation at his house. We would bait them with dog food in the middle of the kitchen floor then take them. We never put out more than 2 gallons though! :lol:

2 gal of bait! LMAO!!!

Grew up with a blow gun and had a bunch of fun in the early 80's with it. Target shooting and stuff. :rolleyes: Had a no good kid from down the street try to sneak up on devils night to soap our windows and burn a bag full of dog poop on the porch. He never used the soap and when he went to light the bag of C$#* my oldest brother in an upstairs window just lightly blew into the blow gun and put a 3" dart in his rear end. I was watching him while sitting on the roof of our house with a garden hose and a dozen eggs. (we were guarding our house from kids like this punk) After he jumped in the air and grabbed his backside I hammered him with cold water. To say the least he never tried anything ever again!

He's lucky one of my three brothers didn't get a hold of him or he would have been in worse shape.:dizzy: Never seen a kid run so fast! We were all just kids between ages 12 (me) and 17 (oldest brother) Funny stuff!

Wish i still had that blow gun!

[outdoor junkie]

You don't see it talked about because it's illegal. This isn't the Amazon forest. How many animals would be wounded if everyone walked around with a blowgun.:dizzy:

[Garret]

You don't see it talked about because it's illegal. This isn't the Amazon forest. How many animals would be wounded if everyone walked around with a blowgun.:dizzy:

Depends on how good a shot you are! ;):lol:

[Due51]

You can bring your blow gun and Neil Duffey can bring his machette and you two guys could hunt geese together.

Heck, we might even make a forum designed just for that..........

Michigan Traditional Blowgun/Machette Waterfowlers

[lookin for the gills]

Maybe because it isn't a legal method to hunt with. I'm just wondering what and where you hunt with them since you state they are super fun, you must use then eh?

so is using a bb gun at small game but everyone here has done it.

[Garret]

Interesting thought I just had??? I've seen people bow hunt for geese, turkey and pheasant on TV among other animals with a bow. Is there really a difference between a mouse, chipmunk, red squirrel or shnew with a blow gun and a flying goose with a bow?

Not advocating hunting with a blow gun but do you see what I’m getting at?

Personally, I hope to take a turkey with my bow next year.

[boehr]

so is using a bb gun at small game but everyone here has done it.Sorry Tim, I don't think so.

[Little Roober]

Sorry Tim, I don't think so.

:whistle: :whistle:

Years ago, while at Outdoorama, I saw them for sale. I wasn't going to buy one "just for fun" so I asked someone at the DNR booth if they were legal for small game (squirrels from deer stand, etc). He said yes so I made the purchase. Haven't heard anything different till now.??

Steve

[solohunter]

Sorry Tim, I don't think so.

Put the miranda card away,, the overpopulation of frogs in N/E mich would be epidemic if me and my brothers had not had BB guns in the 70,s see what we saved ya from?? ( insert statuate of limitations on misdemeanor)
starting kids out with BB guns on small game is safer, cheaper, and is the way most of us started in the old days.The blow guns I saw used in the tropics in experienced hands are as deadly as a 22. !! and that was homemade guns and darts, some they poisoned the tips and some they didnt. but they lived on what they killed. cant say that for everyone on here!----> me either )

[boehr]

Put the miranda card away,, the overpopulation of frogs in N/E mich would be epidemic if me and my brothers had not had BB guns in the 70,s see what we saved ya from?? ( insert statuate of limitations on misdemeanor)
starting kids out with BB guns on small game is safer, cheaper, and is the way most of us started in the old days.The blow guns I saw used in the tropics in experienced hands are as deadly as a 22. !! and that was homemade guns and darts, some they poisoned the tips and some they didnt. but they lived on what they killed. cant say that for everyone on here!----> me either )
What does that have to do with the statement, "everybody here has done it"? So again, I don't think so! Also just so you know killing frogs comes under fishing, not hunting which is the topic.

As to what you and your brother saved us/me from, ummmm...I wonder......:D

[steelsetter]

eliminating feral pigeons in the 70's and 80's. My Dad ordered me the thing after I begged him for a month of Sundays.... Seeing the guy holding the Anteater he killed just made me "need" one. After I got proficient with it in the backyard I was taking head shots on the "beasts" at ranges of 20' or closer in friends barns and lofts where bb gun fire was not allowed or wanted. I still have the thing and often look at it for the fond memories I had in the "blowgun heyday" of my youth.

The thing got put away though after my friend who had one and myself decided the City of Saginaw needed help with the over population of pigeons under the bridges in town after we got our drivers permits.

We went out "hunting" one fine summer day and where head shooting the beasts as they peered over the flanges of the I-beams looking at us.

We literally had the ground covered with them when a City Police Officer showed up:yikes:

He sternly told us how a blowgun was considered a firearm in the city, and that although we were under a bridge with no one around we were a public endangerment.

He then told us he would not "disarm" us or write us tickets, call our parents etc. if we never did it again.

After he saw we were scared sh**less and were afraid we were about to be clasped in irons.

He let us go and mentioned how he disliked the pigeon poop on his cars, but we WERE NOT TO COME BACK HUNTING!:D

[HunterHawk]

now thats a good story, Blow guns are a blast, we bought them from Jays one year while at deer camp, dad got one, bro got one and i got one... mand those things were fun to play with... used to shoot... targets with them and who didnt take the darts off and shoot the tops at siblings :lol: those things sting like no other.... after a while they even came out with paintballs for them... made a heck of a shot on my bros truck as he drove away one day.... good times

[solohunter]

this one must have got misplaced???
it showed up in my mail//

Posted by: RYANINMICHIGAN
On: 01-05-2008 11:43 AM


---Quote (Originally by boehr)---
What does that have to do with the statement, "everybody here has done
it"? So again, I don't think so! Also just so you know killing frogs
comes under fishing, not hunting which is the topic.

As to what you and your brother saved us/me from, ummmm...I
wonder......:D
---End Quote---

[Vicious Fishous]

I live in a spot where using something loud is out of the question, ever try to silence an RWS, (Impossible)
I use a blowgun for english sparrows and any starling(which is a rare but mountable trophy), I only shoot the male sparrows, cause the females look like to many other songbirds. Since my culling has begun the number of chickadees, nuthatches, finches, cardinals, etc. that show up to my feeders are quite stunning. At first we switched to expensive seed that the flying mice aren't supposed to like, even thisle, they would clean it out in day, and when a desirable bird showed up, we witnessed sparrows chase these away. Not to mention the flock is usually 50 to 100's, and the neiborhood cooper's hawk aparrently lost my address.
IMPORTANT NOTE
The little broadheads they sell are the only thing you should shoot at anything you intend to kill, and if anyone is going to "hunt" with one, don't intend to kill anything quickly or humanely without the broadhead, unless you hit it in it's less than pea sized brain, which is even hard for me and I'm at "South American Native Statis" with acurracy. We don't bow hunt with field tips now do we?
I practice alot with a dart board at 30' and getting to the point of holding tight groups and "nocking" my own darts. It's alot like shooting a long bow. I don't know about shooting a big ol' fox squirrel or rabbit with one, it seems like you'd end up tracking their little blood trails like a wounded deer.
I mearly am doing this because of an invasive spiecies that has taken over my yard, and if I lived in the country, the thought of a blowgun wouldn't have crossed my mind, cause high speed lead injection would have done the trick. Not to mention in all my years in the woods I rarely see some crapy english sparrow just hanging out, they are airborne city mice.
They also make paint balls for these if you decide to go non-leathal.(stray cats)
PETE