[Chimes]

Hello Everyone!

After multiple robin hood shots I've decided to start making my own cones to replace the brittle and broken CS ones. I wanted to replicate the CS cones so I cut the cone off the end of a CS broadhead dart and hot glued a screw into it. Using that I made my first batch of cones, now I've decided to change up my tactics and make myself a vacuum former so I can produce cones that are all the same.

Here's some pictures of that first batch, along with one of the CS mini-broadhead darts that had a damaged cone. Some of the first ones I made did not come out the way I intended.. Which is why I want to build a vacuum former, something simple like the one in this video. Also, sorry for the blurry photo on the CS dart, it just didn't come out right.

I need to make myself something for trimming the darts too, kinda like what he's using to ensure such a nice fit in the blowgun.

 

[treefork]

Your cones look good . That guy was really set up with special tools and jigs he made.

 

[Chimes]

Yup, got a lot of good ideas from him. Can't wait to get my setup up and going.

 

[Teach]

I've watched all of this guys videos on cone and dart making. Personally I'm shooting for his helical cones using forms and a vacuum former. This just makes way too much sense not to try.

Curious, seeing as how you used a Cold Steel cone as a form..........did you find you had to go to a larger diameter shaft as the outside dia. of the CS cone will now be the inside dia. of your home made cones?

Teach

 

[Chimes]

I've watched all of this guys videos on cone and dart making. Personally I'm shooting for his helical cones using forms and a vacuum former. This just makes way too much sense not to try.

Curious, seeing as how you used a Cold Steel cone as a form..........did you find you had to go to a larger diameter shaft as the outside dia. of the CS cone will now be the inside dia. of your home made cones?

Teach

I used the cone off the broadhead darts that come with the blowgun, which has a smaller outside diameter than the mini broadhead cones. Being just a bit bigger than the shaft the small bit of hotglue I used to secure the shaft to the cone got that all cleared up.

 

[Chimes]

I've watched all of this guys videos on cone and dart making. Personally I'm shooting for his helical cones using forms and a vacuum former. This just makes way too much sense not to try.

Curious, seeing as how you used a Cold Steel cone as a form..........did you find you had to go to a larger diameter shaft as the outside dia. of the CS cone will now be the inside dia. of your home made cones?

Teach

Earlier while messing around with some thicker plastic I whittled down the outside diameter of the CS form I was using. Now, it's an even tighter fit for my CS mini-broadhead darts. I've also cut the rest of the cones off the other broadhead darts so I can make forms with different diameters for different sized dart shafts. Took the broadheads out of the dart too, now I shall sharpen them up and use them for making a hunting dart.

 

[NaturalFork]

Robin hood shots are a bummer. Darts would last forever if it wasn't for that. I think I am going to make a target that holds 4 or 5 official blowgun target sheets.

 

[Teach]

Robin hood shots are a bummer. Darts would last forever if it wasn't for that. I think I am going to make a target that holds 4 or 5 official blowgun target sheets.

Yup, I like cutting out centre shot sized circles out of tape and sticking 5 of them to a square chunk of foam. 1 out toward each corner and one in the middle. then I shoot one dart at each dot.

 

[Chimes]

I hang a bottle cap in front of my target and shoot at it myself. Maybe I should put up 5 of them and shoot at each of those.

 

[dhancock]

Robin hood shots are a bummer. Darts would last forever if it wasn't for that. I think I am going to make a target that holds 4 or 5 official blowgun target sheets.

I like using a multiple bulls-eye target such as this one: http://targets.s3.amazonaws.com/PDF/Bullseye2Multi.pdf That way I can shoot 5 or 6 darts before collecting.

 

[Teach]

I hang a bottle cap in front of my target and shoot at it myself. Maybe I should put up 5 of them and shoot at each of those.

I have done this many times but I quit because every time I do it I always have more success hitting the swinging bottle cap than I do at placing a dart into a target centre. Weird I know.

 

[Chimes]

I hang a bottle cap in front of my target and shoot at it myself. Maybe I should put up 5 of them and shoot at each of those.

I have done this many times but I quit because every time I do it I always have more success hitting the swinging bottle cap than I do at placing a dart into a target centre. Weird I know.

I have a drawer full of bottle caps just for hanging target practice.. Always seems easier to put a dart into one of those than say a 2D target.

 

[Teach]

I hang a bottle cap in front of my target and shoot at it myself. Maybe I should put up 5 of them and shoot at each of those.

I have done this many times but I quit because every time I do it I always have more success hitting the swinging bottle cap than I do at placing a dart into a target centre. Weird I know.

I have a drawer full of bottle caps just for hanging target practice.. Always seems easier to put a dart into one of those than say a 2D target.

Haha, glad I am not alone amigo!