Bamboo-dart gun - is this for real...?

[AJMD429]

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https://youtube.com/shorts/_P_hIZ2vM2c

If so, looks easy to make.

[junkbug]

Pretty awesome.
I would actually not call that a gun, but a dart projector. When I saw the title of your thread, I actually thought someone made a bamboo cannon, like was common at the earliest days of fire-arms making

[AJMD429]

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I renamed the thread accordingly. But I just wonder if it was REALLY used in that time and place.

Looks easy to make, but unsure if it would do much.

[2ndovc]

Many, many years ago, by dad and I ran into to a guy that was liquidating the collection of a small museum in western NY. Rochester if I remember correctly. They had a very nice anthropological collection from the Pacific Islands. I bought a spear and he bought a bamboo poison blowgun from the Philippines . The bamboo quiver that came with the blowgun has a black tar like substance on the top that we were told to never get wet and touch as it was the neurotoxin that would render the game completely paralyzed. I've asked him multiple times to get rid of the stuff, but he just won't to it. The first thing I'll do when I inherit his collection is get rid of that stuff, just in case it is dangerous.
Otherwise it's pretty cool.

jb