Posts by Dan

  • Caught a few fish

    Quote from greekdiver

    Sure. I will try it out and let you know results. How much you have left of it? What brand is it or who makes it?

    I answered your last question in my previous post. I have enough left to make you two bands. Let me know what length you want the bands, what kind of wishbone material and length, and if you want replaceable wishbones or standard. Price is $14 per band. i will order this band material again if there's interest.

  • Caught a few fish

    Quote from greekdiver

    I still use my pneumatic. I found a gun that was comparable to pneumatic. Abellan Denton 110cm. Really fast shot, powerful, small gun that has range, ect..

    I understand you're just making the move to band guns. This fast shot, powerful, rangy gun, all that is dependent on is the two 16mm rubbers you have it rigged with and the weight of the shaft. Any other stick with that band load and the same weight shaft will shoot just as powerful and fast and have the same range.


    This Abellan gun looks similar to the gun Johnny said you lent him, which he used when he came out with us. It may be the same gun or not, it doesn't matter because they are both Abellan and I can see that the shape of the stock is similar. I held and fired that gun that day. It's a heavy log, very difficult to track and not suitable for the kind of hunting we do here. You don't need that kind of mass to control recoil from two 16mm bands. If I sound a little curt it's because you've always insisted, albeit in a humorous fashion, on the superiority of the pneumatic. Now you found a wood band gun that is "comparable" :) Wait till you try one actually made for our waters.

  • Caught a few fish

    Man you guys are really picky considering gorilla and whatever other premium brand are probably all made in the same place. At least I know gorilla (Riffe) is. Mean green probably not because I read some negative reviews about it. There's a premier company for manufacturing rubber tubing in the US and if someone is not buying it from them they're buying inferior quality. Call my rubber band material "Pargo" bands if you like, it's as good as they come and due to the custom small ID is better than anything else on the market. I haven't thought about rubber again since I had that batch made.

  • Movies Thread

    I think I've seen this movie and wasn't sure what it was called, I did like it. I'm going to try and see it again.

  • hello from RI

    Yeah, 10ft is very crappy vis for us. One thing that I imagine you enjoy though is relatively virgin hunting grounds, I wouldn't think there are too many spearfishers in RI. Whereas over here the ocean is like an old whore. We mostly worry about getting run over by boats.

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    That's a cool greet, very appropriate for this forum. I'm weak on sea fairing terminology so it caught my eye. Welcome to the forum Don. A freediving spearfishing forum doesn't feel complete without a CA section so lets have a report to put there :)

  • hello from RI

    Spearbored :thumbdown1: and too many bubble blowers over there, we're the outcasts ;) freedivers rule!


    I believe there's no one on this board from that far North. I hope this doesn't deter you from hanging out with us. There are new members joining all the time and if you put up reports and pictures of your diving other freedivers will find them through the search engines and join. I'm interested to see pics of the sea in the areas you dive and the fish you get.

  • hello from RI

    Welcome to the forum DeepHunter. With the short diving season up there underwater hockey for me would be a way to stay sane. Always wanted to try it but since the diving here is year round spearfishing is a priority.


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    Dan