Posts by Dan
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Looks good. Guess the bands have to be white to start with.
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Welcome to the forum. What a great offer. Hope you post pics/stories of your adventure.
You should add an email to your post for contact.
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Nice fish.
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Welcome to the forum. A two piece spear for a speargun is not practical. There is no way to make the connection between the two spear sections strong enough. The spear will inevitably bend or break at that point.
Speardiver spears/shafts are the best and the price is good https://spearfishing.store/spe…-7mm-75mm-8mm-85mm-shafts
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The back edge profile of any fiberglass or carbone blades can be modified with the right tools to fit any foot pockets ie. insert deep enough. Location of angle on the blade vs the angle in the foot pockets can be a sticking point but is normally ok if the angle on the carbon blades is not too sharp, rather a curve as with the Speardiver blades. In this case the foot pocket tendons will bend to accommodate the angle in the blades even if they're somewhat offset. That's pretty much all the difficulty you'll encounter with new blades as they should not come predrilled, and you can make screw holes in the blade exactly to match the location of the screw holes in the foot pockets. Screw holes tend to weaken the blade at that point and need to be made carefully. If a blade already has screw holes they will not normally match any holes in the foot pockets other than the ones they were created for. But they will be close, so making additional screw holes too close to existing ones may weaken the blade to point of failure.
DiveR blades do have a sharp built in angle. And the fiberglass version is not all that durable. A customer brought in this broken DiveR fin just the other day and switched out to carbon blades. Nowadays fiberglass blades don't make sense, a good carbon blade is faster, more efficient and more durable. Think like when you want to break a piece of metal, you start bending it back and forth until it weakens and finally gives out. This happens with plastic and fiberglass, but not with well made carbon fiber blades, they will last a million flex cycles without weakening if not abused. It's just the nature of the material.
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Welcome to the forum Dylan.
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Congratz on the new speargun, may it serve you well.
Speardiver RTX 120cm, best production speargun in the world, with titanium reel and line $435. I'll take a band gun over a pneumatic any day for its ease of use/maintenance and reliability.
Speardiver RTX Speargun60cm - 120cm integrated silencer track aluminum barrel speargun, all stainless steel roller trigger mechanism, shark spike open muzzle, shark-fin tab spear.spearfishing.store
Speardiver Titanium Vertical Speargun ReelVertical Titanium ambidextrous speargun reel 30m and 60m line capacity.spearfishing.store -
No warranty or repair service possible? Terry is very conscientious about his product.
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Welcome to the forum. You need to determine what thickness you need.
Best spearfishing open cell wetsuits:
Speardiver Reef Spearfishing WetsuitSpeardiver Reef open cell spearfishing wetsuitspearfishing.store
Speardiver Green Lava Spearfishing WetsuitTwo piece, open cell, green camo spearfishing wetsuit. In 3mm, 5mm and 7mm.spearfishing.store -
It was an inexplicable move for Aqualung. Maybe they just got OMER and Sporasub for a price that allowed them to run it without much further investment until it was no longer viable, and then the value of the assets.
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OMER is now finished period, not just pneumatic spearguns. Maybe permanently.
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Thank you.
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Yes the Mares Cyrano HFT pneumatic speargun is discontinued. While aesthetically it was a very nice pneumatic speargun, functionality wise it was no different than a more standard looking compressed air powered speargun.
As an alternative consider the Seac Asso it's a very nice pneumatic speargun. Powerful, accurate, a reliable work horse, it's been around for many years. At a very affordable price, an updated look and all the right lengths; power/range configurations, the Seac Asso (Ace in Italian) is a no brainer for air gun fans https://spearfishing.store/seac-asso-pneumatic-speargun-cr It would be my choice for a good looking, functional, no-frills pneumatic speargun.
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For roller spearguns and standard spearguns shooting line I use monofilament. Mono is stiff, holds its own weight straight so it doesn't coil and float around creating possibility of entanglement, and is easier to handle/more predictable in the water. Cheap and easily replaceable, no knots to mess around with. Also less drag than a corded line. Even when I use a reel with line, the section attached to the spear + 2 wraps is mono. Here's a link to high quality monofilament / shooting line for speargun rigging https://spearfishing.store/spe…argun-shooting-line-300ft
You will need a good crimping tool to compress the crimps that will make the attachment loops in the mono line, to the spear and muzzle bungee. I prefer this all stainless steel crimper to keep on the boat, it doesn't rust https://spearfishing.store/stainless-steel-crimping-tool
This is high quality mono made in Florida that's tested and always true to its stated breaking strength https://spearfishing.store/mon…nt-speargun-shooting-line
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Packed with all the features experienced spearfishermen look for, the Speardiver warm water spearfishing rashguards with loading pad are now available https://spearfishing.store/spe…r-spearfishing-rash-guard
- Two-piece, jacket and pants.
- Heavyweight durable Polyester fabric.
- Super stretchy .
- Sublimated Blue camo print, will not fade.
- Thick loading pad for easy speargun loading.
- Hooded long sleeve jacket with beavertail closure.
- Neoprene reinforced seat and buckle areas.
- Drawstring with tension snap on pants waist.
- Knee protection.
- Finger loop on jacket sleeves.
- Stirrups on pant legs.
- Unisex.
- 5 sizes.
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Welcome to the forum.
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Any speargun bands that will adequately propel a spear must be made of natural rubber / latex. To avoid natural rubber your only reasonable choice is a compressed air speargun. The Seac Asso is a good affordable option https://spearfishing.store/seac-asso-pneumatic-speargun-cr
