Posts by Dan

Quote from tufual

what exactly is the point of a hybrid speargun ?

It allows use of a good stand alone trigger mechanism with a pipe. I see no other advantage. The "more mass to absorb recoil" idea simply doesn't work, as the mass is at the back of the gun not at the front where it's needed to control muzzle lift. People get the hybrids thinking they can add more band power, and the gun ends up shooting erratically. To shoot decent they need to be powered just like a pipe gun. Nowadays there are production pipe guns with good full stainless steel triggers, so the hybrid is obsolete IMO. They look pretty and allow for some creativity in the building of the gun, that's about it. If someone likes how something looks, they'll find all the theoretical reasons necessary to convince themselves why it's the ultimate solution to their spearfishing needs.

and there's some spearing action

Yes, security is the name of the game.

What kind of mastiffs are those exactly? I used to have neapolitans and these don't look like them.

Nice enclosure. But lots of dog crap.. For the benefit of members who own dogs, I should do a thread on raw fed dog's stool.

The male rott you see in the other vids is my Rocky, he passed away recently. The one in the vid is a stud from Miami I used this weekend. I hope the litter is not large, as it's my bitch's first and I don't know what kind of mother she is yet, and she only has 9 teats. I'm not greedy when it comes to pups anyways, this breeding is for me. The bottles I have handy, and a stomach tube too. If it comes down to that, I can pull through 3 weeks of it, easier on me than seeing a pup die. All my dogs are fed %100 raw, see this thread http://spearfishing.world/memb…80-dog-food-raw-meat.html. If you haven't done fish you should, I prefer mackerels for the dogs. Lets see pics of your mastiffs.

Is pirate redbeard your dad? Who took the pic?

Pups are in the oven.

May & Aaron - YouTube

I'd drill a little from both sides. Or clamp against another piece of wood and drill through both.

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Sweet, now the really fun part. For me the gun really comes together after rounding the corners, and then I know what it feels like to grip it.

The BLR trigger mechanism line release should not be a tight fit in the mech housing, it should move freely as you see in this vid. It's not auto resetting, which means you will have to hold the gun right side up, for it to fall into the down position on its own, and allow loading the shaft. For this it needs free movement.

I recommend cutting the line release slot such that it doesn't allow the line release to go in all the way. In the release position it should still stick out about 1/4", to allow easy manual resetting if needed, it will still release the line no problem. Also I'd square the corners/walls of the line release slot, the rounded profile may act like a wedge and cause it to stick.

Speardiver bottom line releae speargun trigger mechanism - YouTube

The line release slot, not too wide?

Penetrating epoxy. You cut the butt really short.

I meant I have ready made line guides of different shapes, you won't need to polish those. But if you prefer to fab your own, I probably have a piece of stainless lying around.

I have a few plates for you to choose from.

Some of the posts are too old to edit. If you'd like to update your gear choice make a new post and I'll delete your old one.

It's actually surprisingly clean for doing it with a knife.

Naw, she went down to the 2nd post.

They can't see anything past the first post. Still it's not worth the bandwidth. I'm going to remove the pics from the first post, and change the thread title so it doesn't attract attention.

That is unique. Good work.