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proof that a deep breath and a tube can ruin somebody's whole afternoon.
means A long narrow tube through which a dart, pellet, or other small projectile is propelled by the force of one's breath.
from A plain English compound of "blow" and "gun," the name pinned onto a weapon Europeans encountered far from home — the Indigenous hunters of the Amazon, Southeast Asia, and elsewhere had been quietly dropping monkeys and birds with breath-powered darts long before anyone called it that. "Blow" comes from Old English "blawan," to send forth air; "gun" was borrowed wholesale to describe anything that fired a projectile, even something with no powder, no bang, and nothing but a good set of lungs behind it.
- silent kill
- darts fire with almost no sound signature
- poison delivery
- Amazonian hunters tipped darts with curare paralytic
- absurd length
- some traditional models stretch over eight feet
- lung-powered
- range and force come purely from your exhale
- sport status
- competitive blowgun shooting is a real organized thing
blowgun hunting in amazonia — yanomami and other indigenous groups use curare-tipped blowguns in the amazon rainforest
japanese fukiya blowgun — traditional ninja weapon used in feudal japan, documented in samurai combat manuals