Posts by Dan

Gun has been sold.

Welcome to the forum Khalid. Your waters are beautiful. I hope to see some pics.

Pneumatic spearguns are not hard to load. It is truly a case where technique is more important than strength. Loading a pneumatic you're using your ab and bicep muscles in a sort of crunching motion. It's a very powerful combination of muscles. The trick is: 1. To be able to give the back of the gun something to push against like your foot, or your knee with short guns. 2. To keep the shaft and gun aligned in a straight line, otherwise the shaft will bend rather than pushing in the piston. The more pressurized the gun, the better the technique needs to be.

To be able to load a long gun without aids the distance between the diver's foot arch and hand has to be slightly greater than the distance from the handle of the gun to the tip of the spear as it sits in the piston (with the piston being at it's most forward location right at the muzzle). The handle of the gun goes on the foot arch and the hand goes over the loader which sits on the spear tip. The other hand holds muzzle and shaft aligned. Then you crunch and push the shaft in until the piston locks back at the trigger.

This pic I scanned from the gun's manual.

I don't understand the second part of your post. But chest, upper ab whatever you want to call is simply painful by comparison to hip loading. I look at guy's faces when they're chest loading and I can see the strain. I'm pretty relaxed when I hip load.

I've been an avid wood gun user for a long time. One of the main reasons for this is that I find chest loading very uncomfortable, and prefer a hip loading gun. A hip loading gun requires a butt extension which as a rule is not incorporated into pipe gun design.

Today I used the new Pursuit speargun, which has a shaft with two sharkfin tabs. I was surprised to have found a comfortable loading technique. I hip load the first band to the fist tab. It requires a little more time positioning the gun on the hip so it doesn't slip, with the handle angled along the groin, but it's not too bad. Now the 2nd band has always been the problem because it's that last 3" or so to the further tab that requires a range of motion that the muscles used in hip loading simply don't have. So what I did is load the 2nd band on the same tab as the first. Without removing the fingers from under the band, fingers held under the band with tension, I use this tension to raise the butt of the gun to the loading pad on my chest, and simply continue the loading motion to the last tab.

Obviously this would not be possible with a notched shaft, a shaft with small pins, or a shaft with mini sharkfin tabs, because you couldn't load two wishbones on one of those even temporarily. I was using this method all day today and I'm confident I can use a euro gun now provided the shaft uses sharkfin tabs. I realize this may be old news for some of you, but for me it's a sort of breakthrough.

Pantoja and I went diving with Rolo today. I took the opportunity to ask Pantoja to use/test this pneumatic speargun. As I mentioned before this gun is a 110 with about 13" of shaft overhang, which makes it the maximum length pneumatic I can load without any aids. Pantoja has less reach than me, so he used a simple but ingenious contraption to load the gun; a loop in the float line hooked over the heel. Here's a vid demonstrating his loading technique, very fast and efficient, as well as the accuracy and reach of the gun.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qU75oeRYD4A

Here's a pic of a mangrove snapper he shot which demonstrates the accuracy of the gun. Notice the fish was top shot, under any conditions this is a difficult shot, and the mangroves today were very skittish.

A decent size amberjack that Pantoja shot, this shows a little of the punching power of the gun.

Anyone that tried to shoot bonito knows how fast these fish move and how hard they are to hit. I think I missed about 10 of them today. A successful shot on one of these fish shows the maneuverability and speed of the gun, as well as the skill of the shooter.

In conclusion I have to say that this is a good economical pneumatic speargun. Initially I was going to have it used for a year to see it's durability, but these guns are so simply built using all the same materials that I don't see the point. I'd have no hesitation adding this pneumatic speargun to the Pursuit line, and may do so in the future.

I don't use pneumatics myself so I'm selling this new gun for $150.

Very fat snapper, conagraz. Cool pics too, especially the retro one.

That's the correct order.

For #1 You're loading the bands in the wrong order.

Marco, will you teach me the special food blessing you like to do, maybe this will fix up the carp good <img src= " height="23" srcset="https://spearfishing.world/forum/images/smilies/emojione/1f606@2x.png 2x">

The PR crew is looking good

It's cute, fuzz likes cute stuff <img src= " class="smiley" srcset="https://spearfishing.world/forum/images/smilies/emojione/1f606@2x.png 2x" height="23" width="23" loading="eager" data-tooltip="biggrin" aria-label="biggrin">

Now I know the meaning behind fuzz

But he's a killer too <img src= " height="23" srcset="https://spearfishing.world/forum/images/smilies/emojione/1f606@2x.png 2x">

I knew what was coming and couldn't help laughing when it did. No good deed goes unpunished

I guess he wanted his hook back too? Otherwise why not just cut the mono, the hook will rust out no?

I'm in.

Lion fish are edible. You just have to clean them carefully. There are a few videos around showing how to do this.

hehehe sorry bro. Go for the lion fish and don't forget to eat it.

Revised forum fish records.

Amberjack - Griswold 96lb
Barracuda Great - Emil 51lb
Chub (Australia) - red tide 27lb
Cobia - Rolo 50lb
Dolphin - griswold 54lb
Giant Trevally - Nunodias 72lb
Grouper Black - Roberto Reyes 51lb
Grouper Nassau - Jareyberrysplash 25lb
Grouper Yellowfin - Roberto Reyes 31lb
Grouper Garropa - Monster Slayer 40lb
Hogfish - Roberto Reyes 14lb
Jack Black - Roberto Reyes 23.3lb
Jack Cravalle - John Hanson 31lb
Kingfish - Nunodias 73lb
Lion Fish - Roberto Reyes 3/4lb
Lobster Spiny - Roberto Reyes 7lb
Mackerel Cero - Roberto Reyes 15lb
Mackerel Shark - red tide 26lb
Mackerel Spotted - red tide 14lb
Margate Black - Dan 8.5lb
Marlin Black - Nunodias 243lb
Pacific Tiger - Roberto Reyes 4lb
Parrot Fish - Roberto Reyes 21.5lb
Snapper Cubera - Roberto Reyes 63.5lb
Snapper Cubera (Pacific) - Don Paul 60lb
Snapper Dog - Roberto Reyes 19.14lb
Snapper Mutton - greekdiver 19lb
Snapper Mangrove - John Hanson 12lb
Snapper red - griswold 22lb
Snapper red (Pacific) - Roberto Reyes 24lb
Snapper Schoolmaster - Roberto Reyes 6lb
Snapper Yellowtail - Roberto Reyes 6lb
Snook - Roberto Reyes 28lb
Triggerfish Ocean - Roberto Reyes 16lb
Tuna Blackfin - Roberto Reyes 25lb
Tuna Yellowfin - Roberto Reyes 276lb
Yellow Jack - Pantoja 19lb
Yellowtail - Don Paul 48.5lb
Wahoo - Don Paul 79.6lb

Roberto, I need some clarification. Pacific Trevally and Pacific Trevalle, are not the same thing? Also is Pacific Tigre a grouper?

Very interesting pics Don. I was waiting for the rest.

Were using the cam to take Laker party pics......
More dive shots after the party.
Don

Nice

I think that was Rene Potvin.

General hardwoods in Ft Lauderdale

Maybe wood guy?

What size shaft? What kind of power?