Top 10 reasons why I Shoot a Hybrid

Don Paul's Top Ten. ''Why I Shoot a Hybrid''.

# 10. Love the carbon fiber look.

#9.Less cutting of dwindling teak timber.

#8.Only have to sand half the barrel.

#7.Quick disassembly at airport allows me to declare, '' Just sailboard parts sir''.

#6.Store my car keys, spare change and gold necklace in the front hollow tube, to control muzzle flip.

#5.Got a great deal on broken windsurfer masts.

#4.Too cheap to buy long straight exotic hardwood.

#3.Entitled to use super secret ''Hybrid handshake''.

#2. Acceptance to Elite Diver bashes.

And the #1 one reason Why I Shoot a Hybrid......

Love big busted chicks coming up at beach asking ?
''Is that your Wong?'' :thumbsup2::thumbsup2::D

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Quote from sdeisen

double trouble is a hyrbid? I never noticed

Yes.
My gun has a square, stiff (high moment of inertia) 7075 T6 foam filled core, and fabricated rear mech from 17/4, along with line releases for each shaft.Boron/carbon side pods provide a cuttle bone shaped barrel able to handle up 800 lbs of rubber.The pods contain champers and ports allowing the gun to be trimmed (water or lead shot) for 3/8, 9/32. and 5/16 shaft weights. My gun floats with the bottom shaft in,but is ballasted to sink nose down for safety.
To kill noise and feel better in the hand I bonded and SS screwed Aussie lace wood sides, open muzzles with line cross over pins for shaft retention of both shafts, 17/4 mech mounted at the very back to increase rubber pull.
I CNC milled a cast handle to include a clevis end Ti push rod and articulated
light wt trigger. All my components were weighed to the gram for a balanced launch platform.
I had some BF Goodrich glue that (thanks Space Shuttle) boiled at room temp, I glued deep grooved delrin tracks to the barrel, the wood encapsulates the tracks on the sides.Overall lengthis 66''. Epoxie top coat.

Cheers, Don

Quote from sdeisen

Tis the king of guns. Still one of the only guns I get excited to see.

Thank you buddy, that means alot.
Than you will really like the next generation I'm building little by little.
I cast the grips from tooling clay I made a latex mold from. The barrel will be a Metal matrix composite tube made for a navy project that went south a few years ago.
Today I milled out some of the handle and pressed in my trigger pivot bush's, a lot more metal to remove.
Your the first to see this.

Cheers, Don

Quote from tufual

Don even tough i made my gun from scratch you my friend are on another level !!! Can't wait to see your future projects . by the way that aluminium handle looks really strong . good luck man .:thumbsup2:

Thank you mate. This gun will be a very slow build to replace my current gun in time which is still killing fish.

Cheers, Don