Pea Shooter / Blowgun for BBs

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This is a stealth pea-shooter and quick-load ammo box for plastic BBs I made for a small friend. Simply suck up a BB, aim and BLOW! There is a ridge at the mouthpiece end to stop you inhaling the BB and to provide some 'stiction' and stop the ball dropping out. Light ones are best. I can get a BB 40 feet (12 metres) or so. Print with a raft as the plate contact area is small. After printing, give the bore a slight smoothing with a round or half-found needle file and then pass through a scrap of tissue with wax furniture polish to reduce friction further. BBs are 6mm in the same way printer filament is 1.75mm; they vary a bit but appear to be consistent from the same batch. The shooter will work with them all but getting the suck right to just trap the BB on the ridge without jamming may take a couple of test tries. Get good enough and you could enter the [World Peashooter Championships](https://www.contrarylife.com/2018/07/world-pea-shooting-championship-2018-47904/) in Witcham. SAFETY WARNING : Do not fire at elderly persons, animals or me (unless there is a really good reason to do so #:¬) .