As a kid, I used to make and play my bamboo ‘Caplong’ pump gun all the time.

I would say that Caplong is a traditional Malaysia kampong craft made of bamboo and is played as a childhood game. It is especially common in remote villages where there are plenty of jungles with bamboo plants.

Caplong is made from a ‘special’ kind of bamboo. The bamboo needed to make this jungle pump gun must have a thick wall. The thick bamboo wall must be able to contain compressed air as it is ‘pumped’, producing a built up pressure that will result in an explosion of ‘bullet’ at the other end of the barrel.

Continue reading Caplong – Bamboo pump gun toy from my childhood days; Part I