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A dart gun is an air rifle that fires a dart. [1] The dart is tipped with a hypodermic needle and filled with a sedative, [2] vaccine [3] or antibiotic. [4] A dart gun containing a sedative is called a tranquillizer gun (also spelled tranquilizer gun, tranquilliser gun or tranquiliser gun), derived from the word "tranquil", which means "calm".
Tranquilizer darts are related to the darts for blowguns, but include a hypodermic needle and a hollow reservoir resembling a syringe, which is generally filled with sedatives or other drugs. These are launched from a dart gun using compressed gas, a tuft of fibers at the back of the missile serving as both fletching and wadding.
Shooting darts with a blowgun is an extremely stealthy, and even lethal, hunting technique if the darts are poisoned with plant extracts or animal secretions. In Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana, some isolated areas in South America, and in the Amazon and Orinoco basins, blowgun hunters fill the tips of their darts with curare.
The half-dart ammo also cuts down on the size of the magazine and blaster, making this a a small, portable choice in comparison to the full-sized dart guns. It also comes with protective glasses ...
A foam dart blaster enthusiast with a Nerf Stampede ECS in 2011. A foam dart blaster, or simply blaster, is a toy gun that shoots foam darts. The term is often treated synonymously with Nerf Blaster, as Nerf was the first brand to start producing blasters, [1] and has since remained the most notable producer of them.
Nerf's most popular product type are Nerf blasters, [18] which are toy plastic guns that shoot foam darts.These darts have different-style tips, including Velcro-tipped in order to stick to Nerf vests (typically shipped with Dart Tag blasters), suction cup darts designed to stick to smooth surfaces, streamlined darts to fit into magazines (referred to as clips by Nerf), and darts able to ...
To load the gun the operator first has to insert a fresh CO 2-cartridge in to its tubular compartment right under the barrel. Then he inserts the dart from the front into the short barrel part of the main body of the gun. The dart is now partly sticking out of the gun. Then he mounts one or both barrel parts on to the body of the gun.
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