A blowgun (also called a blowpipe or blow tube) is a simple ranged weapon consisting of a long narrow tube for shooting light projectiles such as darts...
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shed only a trace of blood. Blowgun Bushman poison (disambiguation) Fire Arrow Fukiya, Japanese blowgun Loire style blowgun (French page) "Curare". Archived...
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(sometimes spelled pea-shooter or pea shooter) is a toy version of the blowgun or blowpipe. It is usually a tube that launches its projectiles via blowing...
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Shooting sports (section Sport blowgun)
in Sulgen, Switzerland. There are several competition styles of sport blowgun practised around the world. A standardization of competition style is based...
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and arrow Crossbow Bullet-shooting crossbow Slingshot Slings Boomerang Blowgun Shuriken Chakram Firearm Taser Ballistic knife Chain weapons Whips Ropes...
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(pronounced [hunaxˈpu]) is usually understood as Hun-ahpub 'One-Blowgunner', the blowgun characterizing the youthful hero as a hunter of birds.[citation...
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be propelled by hand or with the aid of a hand-held implement such as a blowgun. They can be distinguished from arrows because they are not used with a...
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Varmint hunting (section Blowgun)
boar/hogs, that are preying on or displacing desirable native species. Shorter blowguns and smaller bore darts were used for varmint hunting by pre-adolescent...
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themselves into their own blowguns in order to defend themselves from the circling bats. Hunahpu stuck his head out of his blowgun to see if the sun had risen...
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Sumpit (category Blowgun)
Sumpit and sumpitan are general terms for blowguns, usually tipped with iron spearheads, used for hunting and warfare in the islands of the Philippines...
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weaponry of the Tontaipur is the blowgun, which originated from the Dayak people in Kalimantan. The use of blowguns by the Dayak people dates back to...
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Their traditional way of life relies on gardening, and on hunting with blowguns and darts poisoned with curare. Complex spiritual beliefs are built around...
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and accelerate projectiles, similar to the principle of the primitive blowgun. This is in contrast to a firearm, which shoots projectiles using energy...
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are the pioneer species of the peach palm (used for making spears and blowguns, as well as for fruit), and fast-growing balsa wood, used for ceremonial...
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guides to physics. In essence, the problem is as follows: A hunter with a blowgun goes out in the woods to hunt for monkeys and sees one hanging in a tree...
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Fukiya (category Blowgun)
The fukiya (吹き矢) is the Japanese blowgun, as well as the term for the associated sport. It consists of a 1.2 m (3 ft 11 in) tube, with darts approximately...
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Dipper asterism. The false sun-moon bird was shot out of his tree with a blowgun by Hun-Ahpu, one of the Maya Hero Twins, but still managed to sever the...
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projectile is rubbed over the back of the frog and the dart is launched from a blowgun. The combination of the two alkaloid toxins batrachotoxin and homobatrachotoxin...
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the spines of Cirsium horridulum (also called bristly thistle) to make blowgun darts. During the Seminole Wars, the Seminole people began to divide among...
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usually administered by a tranquilliser gun, if in the wild, or sometimes a blowgun if in captivity. Ryeng, K. A.; Larsen, S.; Arnemo, J. M. (2002). "Medetomidine-Ketamine...
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spears were the primary weapons of the Classic Maya warrior. Commoners used blowguns in war, which also served as their hunting weapon. The bow and arrow was...
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military orders (eagle knights and jaguar knights), clay pellets for blowguns, cotton-pad armor, traveling merchants who act as spies, wars for the purpose...
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Marinas, Amante P. Sr. (17 April 2012). Blowgun Techniques: The Definitive Guide to Modern and Traditional Blowgun Techniques. Tuttle Publishing. ISBN 9781462905546...
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Native tribes along the Amazon River harvest the fibre to wrap around their blowgun darts. The fibres create a seal that allows the pressure to force the dart...
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prey. Experienced, organized hunting parties using firearms, slings and blowguns can kill as many as eight to twenty lemurs in one trip. Organized hunting...
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Blowgun demonstration in Oconaluftee Indian Village, Cherokee, North Carolina...
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viewers will likely want more. But no film involving Nicolas Cage and a blowgun with curare-tipped darts can be all bad, and Primal gives us at least a...
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plant to cows as a tonic. The wood was useful for making fences, bows, and blowgun darts, and for building houses. There are at least 5 varieties: Robinia...
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List of premodern combat weapons (section Blowguns)
chu ko nu, zhuge (Chinese) Skåne lockbow (European) Stone bow (European) Blowgun, blowpipe, blow tube (Worldwide) Fukiya (Japanese) Ballista (European,...
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propulsion Bow Crossbow Repeating crossbow Cheiroballistra Slingshot Pneumatic Blowgun Explosive propulsion Fire lance Hand cannon (e.g. Heilongjiang hand cannon...
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