Posts by Dan

Ahh don't be so dainty People actually dive those, I've tried diving it too but couldn't find the pipe because the vis was bad both times. I did find the ledge it comes out of though. There's some big fish to be had there sometimes according to some of the local divers.

I don't believe the pipes are what's controlling the vis. I'm with you on trying to find what is. The reason I don't think it's the pipes is because of some conditions that I've witnessed. You guys never go out of the inlets so you don't see it. I think vis has more to do with currents that either bring clean water in from further out, or don't. My guess is that as a rule the vis here is mediocre. It can become worse by winds creating waves and churning up the bottom, and/or outflow from the inlets. It can become better if currents bring in clean water from offshore.

Ahh don't be so dainty People actually dive those, I've tried diving it too but couldn't find the pipe because the vis was bad both times. I did find the ledge it comes out of though. There's some big fish to be had there sometimes according to some of the local divers.

I don't believe the pipes are what's controlling the vis. I'm with you on trying to find what is. The reason I don't think it's the pipes is because of some conditions that I've witnessed. You guys never go out of the inlets so you don't see it. I think vis has more to do with currents that either bring clean water in from further out, or don't. My guess is that as a rule the vis here is mediocre. It can become worse by winds creating waves and churning up the bottom, and/or outflow from the inlets. It can become better if currents bring in clean water from offshore.

I think the vis issue is very important and deserves a thread by itself. Here's the new thread http://spearfishing.world/flor…a-visibility-factors.html

Are you going to shoot it? I'd like to know how it shoots. Three bands is a lot of power. I'm trying to imagine what the recoil's like.

A thing of beauty.

Teak oil?

That's valuable info Chad, thanks.

Thanks for the pics Larry.

No idea about wahoos but I'll guess 120 as well. Interesting how the shooter is behind and the gun in front of the fish for perspective. Who's is he? Where did he take the fish?

Have you outgrown the Riffe Larry? I was more accurate with that gun than with the gun I use now.

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Weaver aluminum bases. 18" for $24.99. I'm sure you can find longer ones.

http://www.midwayusa.com/viewproduct/?productnumber=135153

Do you think that will hold the line anchor against the run of a 40lb cobia without deforming? I've never seen a rifle with a scope before.

Very nice.

Doesn't look like there's much room for the trigger but it can always be shortened.

On a wood gun the float line isn't attached to the handle anyways so it doesn't have to be very strong. Just as long as the studs don't eventually work themselves loose.

The simplicity of drilling the holes as opposed to chiseling out/shaping a hole to accommodate the handle is a bonus. Pinning however makes things a little more complicated, if one has to match holes in the wood with predrilled holes in the studs. If it's aluminum maybe you can just drill through the whole thing.

You know if the part of the track that's not being used could be filled with a dummy plastic piece/strip it wouldn't be that bad, I mean it would be streamlined. But there's no room for it on a conventional pipe. The shape of the stock would have to be something like the Riffe metal tech.

Windsurfers use a track to attach the sail to the board. There's one metal piece that slides inside the track, and it has a bolt hole. Anything that screws into that bolt hole automatically tightens the piece in the track and makes everything stay in place. It withstands great forces as you can imagine holding up a sail and a person hanging off the boom.

The track similar to what I'm talking about is the third one down. It's actually a compact system, more so than what it looks like in the pic. And it can be much smaller on a speargun.

This is the brass slider.

I'd just like to say that while the idea is sound and I believe it will work, I wouldn't use it myself. I like simplicity in spearguns.

Post progress pics

John, not too much experience with it but I'm assuming the spear track sits in a just such a groove.

It would have to be a robust track.

Credit must be given to LunkerBuster, he mentioned it first. Could this be another one of those threads that leads to innovation? The thing to keep in mind though.. the line anchor should be one of the strongest parts of the gun.

Thanks John.

An adjustable anchor is a nice idea. But it would add all kinds of hardware to the gun, I like to keep it simple. I'm comfortable with one place for it once I figure out the range I want.

That's an interesting idea Mike. Putting the anchor closer to the middle of the stock will be two wraps of line but they will be shorter. Controlling the range of the gun by varying the distance of the line anchor from the muzzle.

Any possible disadvantages to having the line anchor somewhere between the middle of the stock and the muzzle?

EDIT- Pursuit has the Gopro HD Hero cameras in stock with an offer which I think is the best on the market for divers http://www.freedivingspearfish…-gopro-hd-hero-naked.html When you buy the camera included is an additional flat lens that fixes the underwater focus problem. The flat lens is available separately for $43.

Looks like a mangrove to me.

The question is then where's the best place to put this 2nd anchor relative to the normal rout of the wrapped shooting line; under it or over it (when using a side line release). Anyways I wanted my next gun to use the Heinrich line release system, now I have to figure out how that will work with 1.5 wraps.