Pitch pine speargun build

thanks guys , i think its best to use which ever method is easiest for your body type .

the build is DONE ! i did final sanding with p100 sand paper then used a minwax teak oil finish and i changed the shooting line to 100lb mono with 3 wraps to test the range and i also trimmed and polished all the hardware .:)

thanks Lunker , i left it a little rough mostly because i got tired of sanding it plus i wanted it to have a grippy feel .

hey guys tested the speargun a little and the range seems to be around 20 feet , it has a lot of power with 3 5/8 band . the oil finish is actually working pretty well and the oxide coating i did with the rust proofer worked really well with no rusting .

i also switched back to 2 line wraps which is a little shorter than the range but far more manageable than the 3 wraps i was using to test it , i also prefer the nylon braided cord to mono , it is easier to manage .

20 feet from the end of the muzzle to the rear end of the spear shaft , there is an additional 4 feet from the shaft , last week i also went to an empty piece of beach and fired it in the air with the bungee unhooked but the shooting line still attached to just the spear and it went about 100 feet away and when it landed the tip went 2 1/2 feet into the sand . by the way is 20 feet good ? it is a 5/16 shaft and i also cut the bands to the limit of my strength .

the test was done in about 4 feet of water against a current , my day said it would have better range in calm water .

cool because a diveshop told me 3 5/8 bands are way over kill for rock spearfishing but in Trinidad a lot of the dive shop owners are old heads who like to KILL a fish and actually don't really like the thin shafts on euro guns . they told me that in Trinidad it was common for all spearfishers guns to have at least 3 5/8 bands cut short and the shafts were at least 5/16 . in the old days a lot of guys had 8 3/4 bands on 1/2 shafts to spear sharks . my father actually wanted me to put 3 3/4 bands on my speargun but the dive shop was out of stock .

i was aiming for the specs of the Hammerhead Evo 110 which was locally available [ too expensive ] is my 20 foot range equal to this speargun ?