SPECIAL AMMUNITION FOR BLOWGUNS


The blowgun is an interesting weapon which has several advantages. A
blowgun can be extremely accurate, concealable, and deliver an explosive
or poisoned projectile. The manufacture of an explosive dart or projectile is
not difficult. To acquire a blowgun, please contact the editor at one of the
addresses given in the introduction. 

Perhaps the most simple design for such involves the use of a pill capsule,
such as the kind that are taken for headaches or allergies. Empty gelatin pill
capsules can be purchased from most health-food stores. Next, the capsule
would be filled with an impact-sensitive explosive, such as mercury
fulminate. An additional high explosive charge could be placed behind the
impact sensitive explosive, if one of the larger capsules were used. 

Finally, the explosive capsule would be reglued back together, and a tassel
or cotton would be glued to the end containing the high explosive, to insure
that the impact-detonating explosive struck the target first. 

Such a device would probably be about 3/4 of an inch long, not including
the tassel or cotton, and look something like this: 

          ____________________
         /mercury |           \-----------------------              
        (fulminate|   R.D.X.   )---------------------- } tassels
         \________|___________/-----------------------


Care must be taken- if a powerful dart went off in the blowgun, you could
easily blow the back of your head off.