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What would be your choice as the best spearfishing manufacturer around and why.

Speardiver without a doubt.

A squid is always special nice mack too.

Welcome to the forum. Lets work on changing that user name

Yeah.. you Califonia guys probably invented the idea. Do you remember when the first ones appeared Don?

Judah, I don't understand what you're looking for?

This is the handle I make for my guns and it's as contoured as I would want it to be for reasons already mentioned. I am interested in an economical, easy to apply material that will make a wood or plastic speargun handle more grippy, but not contoured to that extent. I don't use rifles so I can't comment on your product for that application.

Good night Don.

Nice. We saw a couple of big turtles screwing a few days ago. The male didn't care but as soon as we came close enough for a pic the female stuck her head out of the water, looked really surprised to see us, and dove out of sight.

Damn rfoggyone, your speargun looks like it fell into some swamp thing turd <img src= " height="23" srcset="https://spearfishing.world/forum/images/smilies/emojione/1f606@2x.png 2x">

One of reasons we don't make handles like that for spearfishing is that sometimes the gun needs to be fired from an unorthodox position, shoot from the hip at a close fish or shoot into a hole. All those contours would be a problem, they're designed for one firing position only.

Here's a pic of the housing from their website, but it doesn't give me a good idea of what was done.

Jason, can you please post a pic of your housing with the fix. Is the attached lens glass or plastic?

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sharp enough.

I was watching the movie Bluewater Hunters with Psychobilly a couple of days ago and noticed in the blackout scene Don Paul had his Tiputa gun. We both thought it was pretty cool, the video is around 25 years old. Correct me if I'm wrong Don.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RcacLPF6cDc

I like the fact that I can say anything here if I really want to. But in reality I find that running the forum I feel more restricted than I was on SB. But I consider it all worth it because it's for the greater good. Along the way I reap some benefits, but it's not easy. I really would like to relax and enjoy the forum, maybe I could do that if I had some help. fuzz, do you want to help and moderate? If the California section grows I want someone local to take care of it. Telling you ahead of time moderators can't ban administrators

For reference the 6' hollow aluminum JBL polespear is $35 http://www.leisurepro.com/Prod…cSort_0/JBLD72.html?Hit=1 The one I had was longer than 6', but I can't seem to find it online.

Bench grinder is fine. I like to use a disk sander now if I don't have to take off too much, it's more precise. For most spearfishing situations the spear tip doesn't have to be very sharp. The increased possibility of poking yourself and penetrating the skin is usually not worth the advantages of a very sharp spear tip. A sharp tip can help in those rare situations where the scales of a turning fish could deflect a spear, or with very big fish where every bit of penetration counts.

I wonder what the Nassau grouper thinks of all this

Yes. Maybe my use of the word clarification came across too aggressive.

Beautiful fish. Any one of them bigger than Jareyberry's 25 pounder?

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25 pound yellowfin grouper taken in July of 09 in the Bahamas in 35' with a polespear
Edit: Nassau grouper and new hogfish record coming this summer

Which organization did you register the Nassau grouper record with? This thread may be of interest http://spearfishing.world/gene…per-in-world-records.html

Rambo, does it last or do you apply before every use?

Welcome Carlos.