Posts by Dan

Quote from fuzz

As I recall, you liked your old Riffe to be overpowered & said it shot fine. Did you run 3 5/8" & 9/32"?

Can't remember saying that I liked it, if I did say it must have been very early on. I did have the Riffe overpowered with three 5/8" bands but it was out of ignorance, and my accuracy suffered. I now use two 5/8" bands exclusively with a 9/32" (7mm) shaft. But I like light wood guns. I was asking whether a beefier stock, with perhaps an enclosed track, will be able to handle three bands and 7mm shaft, as I believe some people use it. I actually consider this set up different/smoother than two 19mm bands. And yes, I think two 19mm with a 5/16" on that omer is too much power and too much shaft.

Thanks for the post fuzz.

I finally received the black twine in the correct diameter. I shipped it today to those of you who previously received the thin one.

BTW Cuban kingfish is a joke name. I remember seeing barracuda marketed in the US as saltwater pike. It's probably the same motive behind calling hog fish hog snapper.

Excellent post.

fuzz, two 19mm bands are like three 5/8 bands. There are guys that use three 5/8 bands with a 9/32 (7mm) shaft

Wow that's confusing. The red one is definitely in the snapper family. What do you think they call jacks?

fuzz, what fish are those? Maybe one is a pacific cubera , the other some kind of grouper.. Mexico fish?

Lobstering in shallow water 15-25ft develops great breathhold for spearfishing application. There's only one step you need to take from there to go deep and it's just psychological, past the basic compensating, streamlining and dropping straight down.

Well I certainly didn't mean you Papaa. It is a Barracuda, cuda, barra (tinu), and of course the Cuban kingfish "Cuban snapper".. only ever heard one person say it.

I consider freediving to perform a task, any task that involves hand eye coordination and fine motor functions, to be almost on par with freediving to spearfish, minus the hunting intelligence. Objectives such as freediving to film, freediving to salvage something etc. I believe that freediving to spearfishing takes a little more energy because that's what it take to be able to react to something unexpected/random, such as the appearance of a fish.

Actually it's the Cuban kingfish, but some assholes don't know the difference. And you know I don't mean you Marco.

Judah, I don't think you understand the "crux" of my position. I'll make it as transparent as I can. The psychology of the competitive freediver, which is fundamentally go as deep as he can no matter what (hopefully without passing out), has nothing to do with what I do which seems to me to be spearfishing. The "advanced" techniques are an extension of this psychology. Go ahead and talk about it all you want, I may keep stating my position until I get tired of doing so. I believe it's important that the differences be noted. The good spearfishers I knew that go deep, I've never seen them do anything special, they just breath up and do it.

Ahh Marco, your lost love Olga.. But we now have O2 deprived who is also nice looking. I know because I googled her <img src= " height="23" srcset="https://spearfishing.world/forum/images/smilies/emojione/1f606@2x.png 2x">

Welcome to the forum Arion.

hau, putting a pin on the shaft is not difficult, now that you're using a stainless steel shaft that can be drilled. All you do is drill a hole with very tight tolerance for the pin you're going to use, and hammer it in there.

The Spanish is completely out of context.

One thing they did with that gun rack and cooler is block access to the boat from the back. I keep a cooler in the same spot and it fills the space very well, but it's a portable marine cooler. I also have a nice ladder on the transom, and while we never use it when spearfishing it's nice to know I still have the option of entering the boat from the back, especially when working on it at home. I think my boat is bigger than that one though, if it was the same size it would have to be done the way they did it, I'm so glad I was able to get a larger RIB. Still a slick looking boat.

Quote from mrmike

my dad can weld stainless if you decide to go that route. let me know if you want to go that route and ill talk to him. he can also do aluminum if you want to save some weight.

Mike, does your dad fabricate tubes/frames for boats? Or know someone in Ft Lauderdale that does?

IMO having an enclosed track on a pipe gun does not offer an advantage in accuracy as compared to an open track pipe gun. Enclosed track for accuracy is for wood guns with a lot of band power and the mass to handle it.

The advantage of an enclosed track on a pipe gun is ease of loading, as you eliminate time spent trying to keep the shaft on the raised track until it engages the mech and the line is wrapped. However this problem is solved by incorporating a recessed track into the pipe as opposed to a raised one, such as with the new Speardiver speargun.

The advantages of the open track gun in this case are that the cheaper notched shafts can still be used, and the shooting line can be connected either to the back of the shaft (going inside the housing) eliminating the toggle effect for safe shooting deep into holes, or to a hole in front of the notches. The enclosed track pipe gun must use a shaft with a round notch and full size sharkfin tabs. Another advantage is that on close up shots where the shaft doesn't clear the track, such as when shooting into a hole, there is no risk of damage to the track.

hau's enclosed track pipe gun is very well made and unique.

Quote from hau

3. The Euro is already wide WITHOUT the bands. WITH the bands stretched the Euro is way to wide for my liking.

I agree with this.

Thanks Don.