A friend of mine used to do stuff like that . Home made darts out of nails with tufts of wool to act as tail to make it fly straight . Or the ends of shoe laces with a needle through it .
He would wonder why it did not work right after that . An old BSA Meteor ,It was almost spotless when he got it . His dad took it off him and put it in the metal skip at his work when he caught him shooting it in the garden and just dartboard as a backstop with a main road behind it
He does paintball now