A good read. Too bad about the injured fish that weren't landed. Was this Laudy? How was the vis?
Posts by Dan
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The muzzle is getting simpler, that's a good thing. Maybe a round profile on the wire instead of 90 degree corners would match the lines of the gun better.
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Please explain more about the prusik knot.
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What kind of float lines does it work with, only the tube style or any rope? What should be the min/max diameter of the float line?
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Does the clutch work on the same principle as the Chinese finger trap? Doing the same job as a cleat on a tuna board?
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Welcome to the forum Willie.
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I think I recognize your method. It's the long methodical way that I learned as a kid over 30 years ago. Human physiology is an incredible thing. I don't remember the sequences, especially the last one which is the longest, not having played with rubik's cube since I was a child. But when my hands touch the cube, which I've done a couple of times since, they still remember the sequences. It was a big deal for me as a kid and I practiced it quite a bit. Back then you had to buy a book that would teach you how to solve it. I'm sure there's a way of looking at the cube that will solve it in a minimum number of turns, but I'll leave that to the flexible minds inclined that way.
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Did you end up getting that mac in the pic?
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Congratz on the new boat. Nice pics.
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Dude sweet shooting! Is that the Speardiver carbon gun?
Good choice of music, and I like the slow motion effect just before the shot.
If you have two of the same gloves you can turn one inside out and it'll be good for the other hand.
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Great vid. The diver sure kept his cool.
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Nice going.
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I figured it was food related. I just thought whatever it was holding looked too robust to crack open with the force it was using.
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What was it trying to do?
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Josh/Neptonics posted in this thread yesterday. Regardless of the content of his post it was removed, as per Speardiver forum policy addressing specifically this kind of situation, outlined here http://spearfishing.world/foru…09-advertising-forum.html. The purpose of this policy is to allow forum members to not feel intimidated when posting a negative review of a product or a service, by the provider of such product or service. If the review is unjust the community will set the OP straight. In the case of the business that's the subject of the thread rebutting the complaint, it's guaranteed the customer will be portrayed as being at fault. How courteously this is going to be done has been demonstrated on enough occasions, the forum can do without it.
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I see the tip describing a arc before the shaft is released.
Don please explain what you mean by this.
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Jim, it may not appear that way because of the camera angle but I am actually on the bottom, more specifically my knees and left hand. I'm in the shallow end of the pool and the target is suspended in the deep end so it's at my eye level more or less. When I'm checking out a gun I first shoot horizontally.
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The gun in this thread is the same as the Seac http://spearfishing.world/spea…e-pneumatic-speargun.html. When it becomes necessary, take it apart and familiarize yourself with the internal components, it's really simple. The only thing you may need to do is change the rings if they dry out after a few years. Or if the inner tube gets scratched and you get an air leak, in which case you must replace it. Oil doesn't need to be changed.
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Thanks Joe. I haven't priced the gun yet. If you're serious about getting one pm me and we'll figure something out. I've only built this one 130cm at this point.
So I shot it in the pool today. Vis was hazy
but not as bad as it looks in the vid, I could see where the shaft hit. The target was 23ft distance from my eye. The gun is 6ft long from butt to spear tip, and my extended arm from my eye to the hand is 2ft distance. So the target was 15ft distance from the the tip of the spear.The fish on the target is 13.5" long, so not even close to a legal mutton. The next one I'll make 16" long. This practice session was a sobering reminder that anything more than one wrap of line, with 2 x 16mm or 1 x 19mm band configuration, is wishful thinking. Unless the fish is big.
The first shot in the vid is actually the first shot I ever took with this gun. After that shot there have been a few so so shots and a couple of good ones, and those are the ones which I put in the vid. There are 4 shots on the target on the bottom left which are a bit off. Those were done with a different gun by a different person.
I haven't had a pool practice session in 5 years. I find that shooting in a pool is different/more difficult. I figured out that lining up on a real fish my forward movement and extending the arm stabilizes the gun. Whereas sitting there and trying to hold it perfectly still just makes it wobble more. I don't like shooting in the pool very much. Maybe if it was a big pool which allowed me to do a stalk before the shot would be more fun and relaxing.
About the gun, it's certainly not nose heavy, and for a 130 fairly easy to move. It seems to me watching the video, that the recoil is straight back and there's little muzzle lift before the shaft is past the muzzle. Of course a side view of the gun would better demonstrate this. All in all I feel confident about this gun and will use it.
