We donated a custom carbon fiber gun as a raffle prize back in the spring to raise money for the FRA. We don't sell them, so it was a unique opportunity for someone to own the only gun like it outside of Chad's garage. Gary Heidleberg was the winner.
I won't be able to attend, but I'm curious. What is it about the expo that turns you off?
I have a clear idea of what sperafishing means to me, how and why I do it. You go to a thing like that and you get bombarded with other people's ideas on it. I simply don't need that. It doesn't make me feel good to know that there's a million people doing what I hold near and dear, especially in my back yard (the expo is 15 minutes away from my house). I don't feel special any more and feel I lose the intimate bond I have with the sea, as if it wasn't eroded enough already as of late. Grogan wants to make spearfishing like baseball or something, that disturbs and revolts me. Some may find my POV hypocritical considering the medium we are using to communicate. But I always said I don't want this site to become another spearboard. I want to keep it friendly and small.
The exception is one of the guest speakers Steven Callahan. I read his book Adrift and admire his courage and resourcefulness. Although I don't really know if I have anything worthwhile to ask him in person. He made a very good effort with the book and said everything important there.
Thanks. Griswold will be showing off our latest carbon fiber gun (and delivering it to the new owner) at the Blue Wild Expo in February, if anybody will be there. It's 56" long, with three wraps of carbon fiber over an improved core material, delrin enclosed track, spring resetting line release, molded handle, and custom 3-hole delrin muzzle. Even unfinished, it looks like death incarnate. <img src= " height="23" srcset="https://spearfishing.world/forum/images/smilies/emojione/1f606@2x.png 2x">
I had seen the gun, it looks great, the paint job is a bit over the line though 
. IMO your guns are far better than other custom guns, those hybrids with enough mass are really cool. Chad use to acomodate 4 5/8´s with no recoil, that´s really something for a bluewater gun.
Thinking it twice, the gun i was talking about, was a gun made specifically for " Ocean ed" from spearboard, i had seen some pics of your carbon guns though. Chad is a great person, honest and commited, i see why you are not selling massivelly your guns, you still consider a privilege to build them, just for the sake of the pleasure involved. That´s the secret of art, the auto referentiality and purity of intention.
I have a clear idea of what sperafishing means to me, how and why I do it. You go to a thing like that and you get bombarded with other people's ideas on it. I simply don't need that. It doesn't make me feel good to know that there's a million people doing what I hold near and dear, especially in my back yard (the expo is 15 minutes away from my house). I don't feel special any more and feel I lose the intimate bond I have with the sea, as if it wasn't eroded enough already as of late. Grogan wants to make spearfishing like baseball or something, that disturbs and revolts me. Some may find my POV hypocritical considering the medium we are using to communicate. But I always said I don't want this site to become another spearboard. I want to keep it friendly and small.
That´s why i hate pics man. Around here it´s another thing cause you are sharing memories with friends, as the ones Aaron has shown us about his dogs. Those beautiful and simple images bear the true essence of the outdoors life, beauty and simplicity. You don´t need a bunch of technical stuff and land huge fish just to be recognized. And therefore ending up with a swelling ego. Around here i feel free and safe to post stuff of my family and home, i did it in spearboard i inmediatelly get called a Fat ass", directly from a sponsored diver and so on. Damn i feel so happy when i get my family to the beach, and i get a bunch of little mullets speared by me directly to the frying pan, and see my kids munching them in the face of the deep blue. That´s what spearfishing is for me. I like big fishes cause they yield big fillets, but it´s not a matter of trophies or stuff to brag for. I had seen a lot of huge fish being landed with jbls and pole spears with rotten slings, nobody cares around here, some of the best divers around don´t even use a snorkel, and mark my words when i´m telling you that they outdive most of the SB legends.
I hear you on them divers with less than adequate gear and I'm glad that you like it here fatass! <img src= " height="23" srcset="https://spearfishing.world/forum/images/smilies/emojione/1f606@2x.png 2x">
Sorry for the derail Davie.
Glad to be here too bro ... I am sipping a clam chawder bowl as i type hehehe
Let's hear it for the FATASSES!!!!!!!:fanwave::hooray:
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