Blow Guns

You may wish to add an Paintball Magazine Quiver set to your blowgun. The magazine set allows you to carry up to 80 paintballs on your blowgun. (Paintballs and blowgun not included).

The Splatmatic accessory transforms any .40 caliber blowgun into a semi-automatic paintball gun. Remove your blowgun mouthpiece and attach the splatmatic to the tube. You can load up to 20 paintballs into the tube supplied with the splatmatic. Every time you press the button, one paintball will load into the barrel. (Paintballs and blowgun not included).

In recent years, blowgun target shooting, which shares traits with both throwing (pub) darts and archery, has become a popular sporting event. The range is 10 meters long by 2 meters wide. The 3-ringed targets are composed of a 6 cm bulls-eye, centered at 160 cm above ground, scored as 7 points. The inner ring is 12 cm in diameter, scored as 5 points, and the outer ring is 18 cm in diameter, and scored as 3 points.

The shooters use a 120 cm (4 ft.) barrel with a bore of .40, or .50, caliber (in Japan, only .51 cal. is used). 6 rounds of 5 shots are taken, with a maximum score of 210 points. Men and women of all ages compete equally, as do handicapped shooters. 

The only concession made is for wheelchair-bound competitors, whose targets are lowered to 90 cm. This is perhaps the only sport to make the claim that all participants are considered equal. There are several competition styles practiced around the world.

Standardization of competition style internationally is being pursued by the International Fukiyado Association. 10 meter target shooting, using a standardized barrel caliber and length, and a standardized dart length and weight, is hoped to become an Olympic event. 

Also a Field Style competition, based on the Cherokee Annual Gathering blowgun competiton is being included as one of three styles making up the blowgun Olympic event. In this style, similar to the winter Biathlon, the shooter runs from a starting line to a target lane, shoots and retrieves the darts, running to the next station.

The course length varies from 1/4 to 1/2 mile (400 to 800 m) or longer with between 9 to 16 targets at various heights and shooting distances. 

The final style is the Long Distance target shoot. The target is a circle of 24 cm diameter. The firing line starts from 20 meters. Three darts are fired by each shooter, at least one must stick in the target. All successful shooters move to the next round, moving back 2 meters each time.