Bulliera/ Cuba...

Always nice to see a homemade Cuban airgun. Beautiful water and snapper.

Awesome. I love that DiY innovation

Very nice. How hard is it to travel to Cuba from the US? I would like to travel there some time.

You can go direct from Miami or Fort Lauderdale if you have family in Cuba. If not people go through Mexico, Bahamas, Canada and other, wherever the best deal is on air fare. I believe Virgili is from Canada. Almost permanent good vis and warm water, plus all the other good things Cuba has to offer.

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You can go direct from Miami or Fort Lauderdale if you have family in Cuba. If not people go through Mexico, Bahamas, Canada and other, wherever the best deal is on air fare. I believe Virgili is from Canada. Almost permanent good vis and warm water, plus all the other good things Cuba has to offer.

What if one use to have family in Cuba?

Traveling to Cuba is no problem either way. Many Americans go there. Cuban immigration do not stamp American passports, they stamp and give you another piece of paper instead.

Attitudes towards Americans in Cuba are fine, there is no hostility. Cubans see it as a government vs. government problem. The vast majority are not even aware of the normal stigmas about Jews, Arabs and other cultures. They're simply a country that welcomes foreigners from anywhere, their livelihood depends on it.

If someone was born in Cuba, and it shows on their passport Cuba as place of birth, they'll probably be required to apply for a Cuban passport. A Cuban is a national for life as far as they're concerned and requires a Cuban passport. This is not difficult to get from the Cuban embassy right here in the US.

If not born in Cuba then you'd travel like any other American through another country. Or if you can think up some family you may be able to go direct. To do this you apply for a permit here in the US. Then in Cuba they give you a different paper and stamp.

You can also go by boat. There were many boats with American flags in Marina Hemingway, where they normally dock. It's a good marina with affordable rates.

you got within 4 feet of those snappers???!?! you are a ninja

Alejandro's recent thread about bringing gear to Cuba got me thinking, but I didn't want to derail that thread so I'm bumping this one from a few days earlier.. as it's more relevant here.

Anyway, why are most of the homemade guns in Cuba pneumatics? It seems to me that engineering and fabricating a pneumatic would be much more difficult than a band gun, not to mention the limited resources.

The simple answer is they have limited resources. However intellectual capital is not scarce. High quality rubber is.

An engineer can make a pneumo out of scrap and it will last indefinitely rubber has a very short life span compared to that of the gun. It would be self defeating to set up a gun that would be useless after the bands crapped out

I had the same thought at first til I realized that they are only lacking in materials and not resourcefulness

I'm picking up what you're putting down Judah, it makes more sense now. Building a pneumatic just seems extremely intimidating, however when that's the best option for the long run, I certainly understand why they would go that route.