Posts by Dan

I believe your gun should be an 850 not an 830.

Make sure the low pressure selector is not on.

Use a single flopper spear, the double flopper tip is unnecessarily heavy. No need for a slip tip, it's for hunting big fish, something you wouldn't normally count on doing with such a small pneumatic.

Don't worry about the measure of how much air is in the gun. Don't take any air out. Pump it 50 times and see how it is to load. Keep adding 50 pumps until the gun is as hard to load as you'd want. I'm not sure but I think you can't over pump the gun with the factory pump it comes with. If you've reach the maximum pressure the little pump will give you and it's still not enough, you'll have to take it to someone who has a fitting that can feel the gun from a compressor or an air tank. In such a case they will have a gauge that will say how much air is in the gun.

This pneumatic should have no problem penetrating these fish completely from the distance you described.

There's a small possibility that on the fish you described the gun as bouncing off, the spear did pass through and hit a rock that was directly behind the fish.

Overall though the 850 is a small gun not meant to be used over any significant distance. The punching power it will have is for closeup shots only.

You spit out the snorkel after your last breath and just before diving.

I do it because when I surface I can take a breath quicker, as soon as my mouth breaks the surface, rather than having to first blow the water out of the snorkel. When hunting shallow and diving on a fish taking the snorkel out also eliminates the bubbles noise which can spook a fish. There's also a safety reason in case of blackout but I don't remember what it is.

Yep, it has to be accurate the way you were slaughtering those little schoolmasters today <img src= " height="23" srcset="https://spearfishing.world/forum/images/smilies/emojione/1f606@2x.png 2x">

You didn't miss much, conditions were not good today. There was current combined with waves which pushed you in all directions and made swimming very difficult, plus not being able to see bottom in 40ft made us go home early. At least I was an advocate of going back after the first dive. We made a 1hr stop in the shallows on the way back in and scored some hogs, schoolmasters and lobsters. I see puky Larry is already home and logged on too

Atta' girl, very sweet. Thanks Don.

Making the track deeper shouldn't be an issue. There are pretty of shallow tracks out there and the shafts are held nice and tight. It's all about the length and angle of the pin. This is why I prefer a plate.

I'm in.

Very interesting, thanks.

Rusty shaft? Must be a coated shaft. Why deal with the hassle of rust?

It's not like they know or care by looking at an email if you're a Florida resident.

What about you Jeff, no diving lately?

127 members here vs. 30,000 on SB. Still lots of good info, reports, and just entertaining stuff. A trip report from Japan will certainly spice things up

Nice vid. What's it feel like to be next to such a big animal?

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Schock as in cock shock Oto? <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">

Very good report hau :thumbsup1:

Welcome to the forum. Feel free to start threads and ask questions.

Does Luv2fdive mean love to f***ing dive or love to free dive? <img src= " height="23" srcset="https://spearfishing.world/forum/images/smilies/emojione/1f606@2x.png 2x">

They definitely have a season, I forget what month it starts. I got one off the 2nd reef in Ft. Laud. and it was in March. Tasted too fishy for my liking.

Then the shooting line won't come off until the bands lets go of the tab. I read that it works but I wouldn't take a chance. I also read that it works with the shooting line wrapped on the tab in front of the band tabs.