Posts by Dan

The best crimper for spearfishing ie. for mono and wire is the Speardiver ALL stainless steel crimping tool available from FreediveStore.com. It has a stainless steel tool head with stainless steel handles and red non-slip grips, with 4 positions to crimp all wire and mono normally used for spearfishing, from 50 LB to 450 LB test. And includes a built-in side line cutter.

Being all stainless steel it's perfect to use at home and take on the boat. Other crimping tools have stainless Steel in the description but are almost never completely made of stainless steel. Normally only the handles are stainless steel, this is most evident with crimpers that have a black color tool head. But even crimpers that have a steel colored tool head are most commonly not stainless steel

For best holding strength and durability crimp in two spots slightly back from each end of the crimp, so that the crimp edge doesn't dig into the mono and cut into it. Leave the middle un-crimped. When possible lightly melt the end of the mono with a lighter to form a glob, before pulling it to the crimp. This will lessen the possibility of the mono slipping through the crimp.

Speardiver ALL stainless steel crimping tool

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Dan, have you ever had diarrhea issues after giving your dogs raw fish?

Never because my dogs eat raw meat in the first place.

Feed them the fish heads, and any fish you can spare. All raw of course.

It is the Speardiver Phantom handle. I haven't put them in the store yet, I'm not sure if I will. There is an additional grip without a thumb rest, so it's same profile for left and right hand. The shape of the grip is very similar to the D'Angelo handle, but is more robust, fills your hand better. The grip is as close to the plain of travel of the shaft as can be.

This has to be the most inspirational intro I've read yet I've just recently been talking to someone whether there's spearfishing in Jacksonville at all. Welcome to Speardiver.

Steven Callahan, author of the book Adrift - 76 days lost at sea, described spearing dorado that would swim around his life raft with a makeshift spear rigged with a kitchen utensil for a barb.

I have a few different carbon barrels and need to see which one will fit your handle.

Phil, that's good thinking outside the box. It didn't occur to me to cut off the sleeve.

On the other hand why go to the trouble of modifying an RA muzzle, it doesn't allow routing the shooting line well, and even without this fault is not a particularly good muzzle.

Chase, I think it's time you read this post http://spearfishing.world/info…earfishing-locations.html

Jose, you can cut the barrel on an angle for a nicer fit.

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I'm curious, what is the weight of a Speardiver CF 120 barrel with plugs? (no handle assembly, no muzzle, no reel attachment, no screws, just the plugged barrel alone)

12oz (340 grams).

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Also, does the Rob Allen Closed Muzzle fit the Speardiver CF barrel?

No. RA handle and muzzle are both male and female, and the space between the spigot and the sleeve is smaller than the wall thickness of the Speardiver carbon barrel. Rob Allen carbon barrel ends appear to be thinned to fit the components. This is really strange because the whole purpose of the sleeve is to enforce the carbon tube, but thinning the barrel walls to make it fit weakens the barrel. Bottom line is if the carbon barrel has good wall thickness, only a spigot will do and a sleeve is not necessary.

Beach diving you'll learn more about a specific area and fish movement there than boat diving, you'll get to know it very well.

I'll try. The demand for it is very small, can't justify production.

Do you use 300lb or 400lb?

It is as hau said, no matter what length, a carbon barrel with a built in track has a nicer feel to it. With longer guns a good carbon tube is preferred because it will not flex. An aluminum barrel would have to be quite robust to not flex and will consequently be heavier and less maneuverable.

To me a carbon barrel is worth the extra cost. I can't think of any disadvantages vs an aluminum barrell. And the Speardiver Carbon Speargun Tube With Track C1 is a very good tube, it's the only one that has a deep integrated track.

A come-along, now there's a word I think I haven't heard in 25 years. Nearly had my chest crushed by one that let go and flew past me. Summer job loading railway cars for a shipping company..

That's what I thought. Like I said I wouldn't expect it to hold anything like that. The crimped loop gives it a lot of holding power. In a pinch if you don't have a crimper, you can just make a loop using the crimp and burn the end of the mono, it will hold some fish.

Nice work on the components John.

I don't understand what's holding the mono in the slider.

If mono is crimped without a loop, I wouldn't expect it to hold anything.

As I was reading your post I was thinking Appendix. How old is Tino? I had mine out at 4 years old.

Looks good. A bit of color correction (remove the green/yellow tone) on the first pic would make it better.