Rompe dedos

That was nothing, Pantoja's had the same thing happen and it was much worse than that, it raked the meat of his finger right off the bone. But at least this one was caught on video. I hate those articulated wishbones, I call em quitadedos (finger removers). If you're going to have your gun rigged like that, I wouldn't, at least use gloves.

Ouch!

Yeah. I used to like them until one of the pins that connect the center piece to the arms broke and turned the wishbone into a meathook. Luckily I was wearing gloves and only got a scratch on my finger but that piece of :grogan1: took the glove's finger clean off.

What performance? How is the articulated wishbone better than dyneema?

:rolleyes1:

como duele

I'm looking for the post where a Riffe missfired and got Pantoja in his face (if I'm not wrong).

For sure he will have some interesting stories to tell his grandsons...

That happened before this forum so it was never posted here.

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That happened before this forum so it was never posted here.

Do you have the spearbored link?

These are the posts.

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La Santa Fe 09/01/07 Pantoja spears himself

After changing the oil on his boat engine today he took the boat out for a quick test run with his brother and of course while out there did some fishing. He got a hog so the gun was fired once and then loaded in the water. The gun was only purchased 3 weeks ago BTW. For a reason unknown to me (I forgot to ask) he got on the boat with the gun loaded, I've never seen him do this before, if I did I would have said something. The gun has 2 standard length 5/8 bands and a single flopper 57" 9/32 shaft. Pantoja sat on the rear gunwale and proceeded to unload the gun.

He put the butt on his hip, grabbed the first band to unload it and the gun fired. As we all know due to the length of the C3X the point of the spear is much further than the head of the person loading therefore it's impossible to shoot oneself in the head. Quite different than a pneumatic speargun where if one does not pay attention the point can end up exactly under the jaw as it's reaching loaded position.

The spear hit the end of the mono and ricochet point first to his head. The spear entered at the hairline, was deflected by the cranium, exited under the eye brow passing over the eye and entered again above the cheek (I don't remember if it was the left or the right eye). In the shock of the moment Pantoja didn't know what happened but he said that when he opened his eye he could see the shaft directly in front of it. His brother ran over and grabbed the shaft so the weight of it would not tear the skin. Upon inspection the flopper did not completely pass under the skin and Pantoja decided to pull the spear out on the spot.

There was a lot of bleeding and I think he used a rag to put pressure on the wound while his brother drove the boat home. When I spoke to him he was just getting underway to the hospital.

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I just got out of the hospital , I don't know how many stiches I got but I think they were like 10 or so. The upper wound 7 , 2 on the upper lid and one on the lower. God , I'm ugly and swolen. I never got this beat up even in a fight.... well yeah once but no stiches.
It was stupid of me to bring the gun on the boat loaded, Even though I still don't get how it went off.
Idon't know how many times I was told in the hospital how lucky I was , but that is questionable, it depends how you look at it.
I didn't have a camara , shame A pic of me with the shaft stuck there would have been a hit. Anyways The surgeon who treated me took some pics , I'll try to get some after tuesday. He even put a couple wooden sticks in to show the tunel from the forehead to the eye. I apreciate the concern of all of you guys , it makes my day a lot better.

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It's been 11 days now since the accident and I saw Pantoja today. The wounds are healing very well. The two bottom puncture wounds are not even visible. The top one which was the largest still has stitches but looks to be healing well too. Lets hope it doesn't leave Pantoja too marked up, he needs all the help he can get

One thing that caught my eye as I was handling the culprit speargun, taking the trigger mech out of the gun to send to Riffe, was the condition of the spear. I must say that Pantoja has a flair for the dramatic as he did not bother to clean it since the accident, it's either that or some kind of Cuban juju..

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damn, I never heard or read this...scary...was there any follow up with riffe, any issue with the mech?

Post the other accident too Dan. If it's ok with all parties.:)

If you're referring to when he got hurt in the chest, it's already been posted here with Pantoja's permission, check the safety section.

LB, there was no follow up. I believe Austins replaced the mech for him after it fired off on its own again, this time in the water.

Thanks for the post.