Shit weather target practice

You shoudn't ask. Is like when at school there was always the "smart ass" that asked if calculators were allowed at the exam....

i think he meant shouldnt of asked the condo ppl. as in like instead of can we do this? just let it slip by.
but its true the condo ppl woud of been on that one like white on rice. I still "owe" the front door guy 5 dollars casue he supposedly had to move my car.

Damn this kid is sharp. I didn't get it either until you explained it. And it goes back exactly to what I told hau when you guys were here. You don't ask for permission for that sort of thing you just do it Although the speargun thing would've obviously been a no no. And now hau you set yourself up for an automatic no for when we just want to get together and try the fins and wetsuits.

What are you guys using for a target? I made one from a piece of cheap conveyor belt, and it works OK. This is the stuff I used:

http://cgi.ebay.com/Conveyor-b…ain_0?hash=item563111cf42

The target is just a strip of the conveyor belt about 7' long. The top edge is looped around a piece of 3" PVC pipe, capped at both ends, to act as a float. The belt just hangs down from that, with a few dive weights on the bottom to hold it in position.

I've only used it once, so Chad may be able to add more info. Shafts shot with 2-bands would penetrate the belt, but stop at the shark fins. Shafts with more bands would sometimes go all the way through, but the belting takes much of the energy out and the shooting line stops the shaft.

I have a heavier piece (twice as thick) that I have been wanting to try.

hmm. I bet the lap pool at my apt would do, it is 25m and shallow and almost never used aside from 9-2 on weekends...I'll take my gun down tomorrow and see what happens..if there is no uproar maybe it is a suitable location for this.

I will heed steves advice and NOT mention this to my apt manager....they know better than to try and talk to me...I am extremely annoying to them and usually right so they hate talking to me

lol a good situation to be in judah..

I'm a firm believer in the " forgiveness is easier to get than permission" principle, and I've used it many, many times. You might want to look over your lease just to see if there is any language in it that would address the use of the pool, however. Being as how you've got such a good relationship with your appt mgr. he just might let the Law do his talking for him. :@ Good luck on the lap pool. let us know how it goes.

I've thought of using our club pool for testing, but we've got waaay too many old folks with too much time on their hands, so they are always looking to get their nose in someone else's business. I live on salt water but the vis at my place is never good enough to do any practicing or testing.

look, id love to host such an event. But my family would be pushin their liberal agenda down everyones throat and drinkin wine and talkin about the joys of bill mahr

It's a date!

I've been shooting the conveyor belt target that Jeff made for a while now and am very happy with it. Don't know about a thicker one - it might be hard to pull the shaft out if it got past the flopper but didn't go all the way through. The one I have just takes a firm tug.

steve your place sounds awesome...bill mahr is such an asshole, but he is often my kind of asshole.

i brought the gun down the pool with my mask and short(er) fins and a snorkel and got into the water and had just put my fins on and a security guard materialized and asked me what i was doing. I told him i was practicing my diving and kept it vague. He very politely said that it was fine but please dont shoot the speargun as it is too dangerous for a public place. I looked at the empty pool and asked "who could get hurt" and he just repeated it was not safe.

I think it would not go over well to have a target session here

i was shocked at the response time...someone clearly was watching the security cams

Finding a pool to shoot spearguns is very hard.

can we rent the swimming fall of fame pool, i heard its reasonably priced to rent for a half day.
i dont know about spearguns but i think its like 20 something feet deep. good for suits and fins, weight arrangements, trying diff. masks, techniques etc