Post by craftsman on Nov 16, 2006 1:28:25 GMT 8
ASBA
American Sports Blowgun Association – A USA based affiliate of the IFA (see IFA) promoting the sport of blowgun target competition.
Backstop
The part of a target used to slow down the forward motion of a shot dart, after it has penetrated the target face. Usually made of dense self-healing foam plastic, cork, or other shock absorbing material used to prevent damage by penetration of the dart into objects behind it.
Blowgun
A hollow tube, made of bamboo, wood, plastic, or metal used as a device for the delivery of various darts. A blowgun is a simple weapon consisting of a small tube for firing light projectiles, or darts. The wielder blows into one end, forcing the dart out the other.
Broadhead
A Dart used for hunting. Also, a dart tip attached to the tip of a target dart shaft, shaped like an arrowhead. The purpose is for blood-letting after penetration.
Bulls-eye
A nickname for the center-most ring of a target; also for a dart scoring in the center-most ring of a target.
Cone
The back end of a Dart (see below), which acts like a piston in a cylinder. Air compression applied to the cone drives it forward, out of the muzzle end of the blowgun.
Dart (also called: Flight)
A projectile fired by air pressure, from a hollow tube, with no trigger or other external devices. Various configurations of darts exist, based on the length, shape and purpose.
Dart types:
Competition Darts:
• Target Dart – A dart with a cone, and shaft of wire, sharpened to a point
Darts for Hunting:
• Stun – A plastic cone and cylinder of the same diameter, or with a non-pointed weight at the front.
• Super stunner – A Stun dart with a machine screw at the business end
• Zapper or Stinger – A stun dart with a nail shaft, point-end forward
• Pro Hunter – A Zapper with an 8 d nail, having a spearhead point
• Spearhead dart – A target dart, with the point flattened to a spearhead shape
• Broadhead – A sharpened edge tip of metal or plastic added to a target dart, arrowhead shaped. May be dual, triple, or quadruple edged.
Specialty Darts:
• Helicopter – A stun dart with plastic tails, which rotate the dart slowly down like a helicopter blade, used for amusement
• Cap Darts – an exploding “cap” on the end of a stun dart causing a “bang” when struck on a hard flat surface – used for amusement
• Gigger darts – Used for fishing, a target dart with a barbed hook tip, attached to a fishing line
• Soft tip, or suction cup tipped darts – Used for amusement, indoors. The soft tips are shot at a pincushion-like target – the suction cup tipped, at any flat hard non-porous surfaced target.
• Tranquilizer darts – A hypodermic syringe (usually having from between a 1cc to 3cc volume payload) used by veterinarians, animal control officers, or DEP agents to deliver medicine into an animal from a distance. Because of the heavy weight of this projectile, they are more often shot from a CO2 powered air rifle.
• Velcro darts – Used with self-stick target – a stun dart with a strip of Velcro attached to the end – indoor amusement
Dart Guard
An attachment to a blowgun tube, used in conjunction with a quiver, to keep the sharpened points of the darts held in the quiver from being damaged, or sticking the shooter.
Double Robinhood
2 dart shots, stacked into the initial shot - 1 pair. (written on scoresheet as: D7, D5, D3: depending on the location they occur.)
Flight
See: Dart
Full-House Robinhood
One single robin hood, and one double robinhood in the same round, regardless of scored point value - 1 pair, and one triple (written on scoresheet as: F7, F5, F3 if all in one value - or F75, F73; F57, F53; F37, F35 - where the "triple" score is indicated first: depending on the location they occur.)
Grip
A device added to a tube to make holding it easier.
• Foam Grips slide on the tube (barrel).
• Pistol Grips slide on the barrel, and are used to steady the barrel by holding it at a 90 degree offset.
• Rifle grips are used like a pistol grip, with an extension like a rifle stock, to use the shoulder of the shooter to steady the barrel.
IFA
International Fukiyado Association. International sanctioning organization, promoting the sport of blowgun target competition, based in Nagaoka, Japan.
Mouthpiece
The end of the blowgun that is used to propel darts by placing it to the shooter’s lips, and forcibly exhaling to project the dart through the tube
• Non-cup shaped mouthpiece (a tube guard) is used on the Japanese Fukiya - this is not an anti-inhale mouthpiece. One usually wraps their lips around this style mouthpiece
• An anti-inhale (Safety) mouthpiece is made as a "one-way" (keeping the dart from being inhaled) device by having a slightly smaller diameter than the barrel - compressing the cone when it is inserted through the mouthpiece
• High Compression Mouthpiece - has a shallower bowl - made for .40 caliber barrels, used to increase the internal pressure applied to the cone at the time of shooting
• Paintball mouthpiece - usually a colored plastic, has an anti-inhale bar through it, so a paintball cannot be accidentally inhaled
Muzzle
The far end of a blowgun, through which the dart exits the tube when shot
Muzzle guard
A tubular piece of plastic or metal which covers the muzzle end of a blowgun, keeping the muzzle end from being damaged, which could affect the trajectory of the dart. May have a unified “peep sight” incorporated (see Sights)
PhiSBA
Philippine Sports Blowgun Association – A Philippines based affiliate of the IFA (see IFA) promoting the sport of blowgun target competition.
Quadruple Robinhood
4 dart shots, stacked into the initial shot dart. (written on scoresheet as: Q7, Q5 or Q3: depending on the location they occur.) [The ultimate score, therefore would be 6-Q7 rounds totaling 210 points, the penultimate score would be 5-Q7 rounds, and one T7 and a single 7 point shot totaling 210 points, etc.]
Quiver
A bag, box, tube, or other device used for carrying multiple darts. Also used to describe a device mounted on the barrel of the blowgun, that holds the darts by their shaft with a pincher-like projection, or a foam plastic used to insert darts, so the shaft is suspended approximately parallel to the barrel.
Robinhood
When the tip of a shot dart penetrates the cone of a previously shot dart, stacking two or more darts together. See: Single or Simple Robinhood, Twin Robin Hood, Double Robinhood, Full-House Robinhood, Triple Robinhood, or Quadruple Robinhood.
Single, or Simple Robinhood
When the tip of a shot dart penetrates the cone of a previously shot dart, stacking two darts together. (written on scoresheet as: R7, R5, R3: depending on the location they occur.)
Sight
A device mounted on the muzzle end of the barrel of the blowgun, assisting in aiming the blowgun.
(NOTE: In International Competition – no rear-mounted or light projecting sights are allowed to be used!)Muzzle-mounted types include:
Muzzle Guard Peep Sight
Fiber Optic Sight
Laser Sighting System
Parallax-Correcting Sight
Red-Dot Electronic Scope (Air Pistol)
Sling
An adjustable belting (usually woven nylon about 1.5 in. wide) attached to the barrel, used to carry the blowgun over a shoulder, or across the back, freeing the hands.
Shaft
The part of a dart in front of the cone (see Cone), usually a thin cylinder of metal, or wood - akin to an arrow shaft in archery.
Spearhead
A hunting dart, made of wire, with the point widened, flattened and sharpened, like the head of a spear.
Target
An object used to stop darts, (also - the animal shot at when hunting) usually a paper printed with concentric rings; used to measure accuracy by assigning points in descending order from the center-most ring
Triple Robinhood
3 dart shots, stacked into the initial shot dart (written on scoresheet as: T7, T5, or T3: depending on the location they occur.)
Twin Robinhood
2 pair of single robinhoods - regardless of scored point value (written on scoresheet as: W7, W5, W3, or W75, W73, W53: depending on the location they occur.)
American Sports Blowgun Association – A USA based affiliate of the IFA (see IFA) promoting the sport of blowgun target competition.
Backstop
The part of a target used to slow down the forward motion of a shot dart, after it has penetrated the target face. Usually made of dense self-healing foam plastic, cork, or other shock absorbing material used to prevent damage by penetration of the dart into objects behind it.
Blowgun
A hollow tube, made of bamboo, wood, plastic, or metal used as a device for the delivery of various darts. A blowgun is a simple weapon consisting of a small tube for firing light projectiles, or darts. The wielder blows into one end, forcing the dart out the other.
Broadhead
A Dart used for hunting. Also, a dart tip attached to the tip of a target dart shaft, shaped like an arrowhead. The purpose is for blood-letting after penetration.
Bulls-eye
A nickname for the center-most ring of a target; also for a dart scoring in the center-most ring of a target.
Cone
The back end of a Dart (see below), which acts like a piston in a cylinder. Air compression applied to the cone drives it forward, out of the muzzle end of the blowgun.
Dart (also called: Flight)
A projectile fired by air pressure, from a hollow tube, with no trigger or other external devices. Various configurations of darts exist, based on the length, shape and purpose.
Dart types:
Competition Darts:
• Target Dart – A dart with a cone, and shaft of wire, sharpened to a point
Darts for Hunting:
• Stun – A plastic cone and cylinder of the same diameter, or with a non-pointed weight at the front.
• Super stunner – A Stun dart with a machine screw at the business end
• Zapper or Stinger – A stun dart with a nail shaft, point-end forward
• Pro Hunter – A Zapper with an 8 d nail, having a spearhead point
• Spearhead dart – A target dart, with the point flattened to a spearhead shape
• Broadhead – A sharpened edge tip of metal or plastic added to a target dart, arrowhead shaped. May be dual, triple, or quadruple edged.
Specialty Darts:
• Helicopter – A stun dart with plastic tails, which rotate the dart slowly down like a helicopter blade, used for amusement
• Cap Darts – an exploding “cap” on the end of a stun dart causing a “bang” when struck on a hard flat surface – used for amusement
• Gigger darts – Used for fishing, a target dart with a barbed hook tip, attached to a fishing line
• Soft tip, or suction cup tipped darts – Used for amusement, indoors. The soft tips are shot at a pincushion-like target – the suction cup tipped, at any flat hard non-porous surfaced target.
• Tranquilizer darts – A hypodermic syringe (usually having from between a 1cc to 3cc volume payload) used by veterinarians, animal control officers, or DEP agents to deliver medicine into an animal from a distance. Because of the heavy weight of this projectile, they are more often shot from a CO2 powered air rifle.
• Velcro darts – Used with self-stick target – a stun dart with a strip of Velcro attached to the end – indoor amusement
Dart Guard
An attachment to a blowgun tube, used in conjunction with a quiver, to keep the sharpened points of the darts held in the quiver from being damaged, or sticking the shooter.
Double Robinhood
2 dart shots, stacked into the initial shot - 1 pair. (written on scoresheet as: D7, D5, D3: depending on the location they occur.)
Flight
See: Dart
Full-House Robinhood
One single robin hood, and one double robinhood in the same round, regardless of scored point value - 1 pair, and one triple (written on scoresheet as: F7, F5, F3 if all in one value - or F75, F73; F57, F53; F37, F35 - where the "triple" score is indicated first: depending on the location they occur.)
Grip
A device added to a tube to make holding it easier.
• Foam Grips slide on the tube (barrel).
• Pistol Grips slide on the barrel, and are used to steady the barrel by holding it at a 90 degree offset.
• Rifle grips are used like a pistol grip, with an extension like a rifle stock, to use the shoulder of the shooter to steady the barrel.
IFA
International Fukiyado Association. International sanctioning organization, promoting the sport of blowgun target competition, based in Nagaoka, Japan.
Mouthpiece
The end of the blowgun that is used to propel darts by placing it to the shooter’s lips, and forcibly exhaling to project the dart through the tube
• Non-cup shaped mouthpiece (a tube guard) is used on the Japanese Fukiya - this is not an anti-inhale mouthpiece. One usually wraps their lips around this style mouthpiece
• An anti-inhale (Safety) mouthpiece is made as a "one-way" (keeping the dart from being inhaled) device by having a slightly smaller diameter than the barrel - compressing the cone when it is inserted through the mouthpiece
• High Compression Mouthpiece - has a shallower bowl - made for .40 caliber barrels, used to increase the internal pressure applied to the cone at the time of shooting
• Paintball mouthpiece - usually a colored plastic, has an anti-inhale bar through it, so a paintball cannot be accidentally inhaled
Muzzle
The far end of a blowgun, through which the dart exits the tube when shot
Muzzle guard
A tubular piece of plastic or metal which covers the muzzle end of a blowgun, keeping the muzzle end from being damaged, which could affect the trajectory of the dart. May have a unified “peep sight” incorporated (see Sights)
PhiSBA
Philippine Sports Blowgun Association – A Philippines based affiliate of the IFA (see IFA) promoting the sport of blowgun target competition.
Quadruple Robinhood
4 dart shots, stacked into the initial shot dart. (written on scoresheet as: Q7, Q5 or Q3: depending on the location they occur.) [The ultimate score, therefore would be 6-Q7 rounds totaling 210 points, the penultimate score would be 5-Q7 rounds, and one T7 and a single 7 point shot totaling 210 points, etc.]
Quiver
A bag, box, tube, or other device used for carrying multiple darts. Also used to describe a device mounted on the barrel of the blowgun, that holds the darts by their shaft with a pincher-like projection, or a foam plastic used to insert darts, so the shaft is suspended approximately parallel to the barrel.
Robinhood
When the tip of a shot dart penetrates the cone of a previously shot dart, stacking two or more darts together. See: Single or Simple Robinhood, Twin Robin Hood, Double Robinhood, Full-House Robinhood, Triple Robinhood, or Quadruple Robinhood.
Single, or Simple Robinhood
When the tip of a shot dart penetrates the cone of a previously shot dart, stacking two darts together. (written on scoresheet as: R7, R5, R3: depending on the location they occur.)
Sight
A device mounted on the muzzle end of the barrel of the blowgun, assisting in aiming the blowgun.
(NOTE: In International Competition – no rear-mounted or light projecting sights are allowed to be used!)Muzzle-mounted types include:
Muzzle Guard Peep Sight
Fiber Optic Sight
Laser Sighting System
Parallax-Correcting Sight
Red-Dot Electronic Scope (Air Pistol)
Sling
An adjustable belting (usually woven nylon about 1.5 in. wide) attached to the barrel, used to carry the blowgun over a shoulder, or across the back, freeing the hands.
Shaft
The part of a dart in front of the cone (see Cone), usually a thin cylinder of metal, or wood - akin to an arrow shaft in archery.
Spearhead
A hunting dart, made of wire, with the point widened, flattened and sharpened, like the head of a spear.
Target
An object used to stop darts, (also - the animal shot at when hunting) usually a paper printed with concentric rings; used to measure accuracy by assigning points in descending order from the center-most ring
Triple Robinhood
3 dart shots, stacked into the initial shot dart (written on scoresheet as: T7, T5, or T3: depending on the location they occur.)
Twin Robinhood
2 pair of single robinhoods - regardless of scored point value (written on scoresheet as: W7, W5, W3, or W75, W73, W53: depending on the location they occur.)