Posts by Dan

A good gopro ready mask https://spearfishing.store/spe…h-spearfishing-gopro-mask

Some things to consider with guns you mentioned in your first post.

Rob Allen normally doesn't have a loading butt, I find this uncomfortable. I feel like the gun can slip down into my groin under pressure.

Riffe euro has a small handle which I feel doesn't offer enough control over the gun when tracking. Also the stock being wide in the horizontal plane, with the added width of the stretched bands, makes it hard to grip the gun in the middle, that's where I hold while swimming.

Pathos D'angelo 2 handle used to have a horrible sharp profile grip that would really dig into your chest when loading. I don't know if it's still like that.

The Salvimar Voodoo has it's own issues you can read a review here Salvimar Voodoo V-Pro and Vuoto speargun review

As you can see each of those guns has drawbacks. Could I use all of them successfully? Sure. Would I choose them if I had other options? Absolutely not. One bad detail about a gun makes me think WTF did they do that. The gun is a tool and you want your tool to work in an optimal way for you. Small poorly thought out details amount to unnecessary inconvenience. I don't want to deal with that.

You mentioned JBL, I hope you meant the newer wood series because everything else is crap. The newer wood series is pretty good. The trigger mech requires too much force to engage the shaft in the mechanism. The handle angle/rake is not ideal.

The Riffe C3 is a good gun except for the handle which is ancient and not ergonomic. One of its good features is a deep track.

Isn't 115cm speargun long for Russian rivers? I'm guessing you're going on a spearfishing vacation to nice clear water.

What spearguns are available in dive stores in Russia?

Speardiver Phantom speargun accurate, strong and durable. All steel trigger mechanism, loading butt, choice of configuration (bands and shaft), ergonomic handle for good leverage when tracking, great price point.

True the camera is better on the mask, for a few reasons.

Looks good. Think the paint will stay on?

I would do a bungee through the hole in the handle to secure it in the sheath.

Ha I just remembered while I was down there grabbing the gun I saw the lobsters in the hole and was pointing to them signaling to you. Did you catch that at the time? Because looking at the video even I had a hard time figuring out what I was doing at that moment.

Alan The forum has now been upgraded and includes the feature of resizing pics for you on the fly. You can upload straight from your phone. Go ahead and try it again, lets see those lobster pics.

Put up the vid of finding the speargun. The back of the shaft was a just wedged against a rock, I don't understand how someone couldn't recover it. It was just floating right up over the ledge. Not even bad visibility or current could account for it.

It was a beautiful day. Bugs were plentiful, as well as discarded AB Biller spearguns and surprisingly.. cheese. Unfortunately fish were not.

I would go with the HERO7. I still use the HERO4 silver it makes great quality video and is very small/light. I chose the silver because it has the view screen so I can attach and point the camera correctly.

Rob Allen has a speargun camera mount. The angle is a little weird as the camera is mounted under the bracket not the conventional way on top, but the bracket is solid.

I don't know about the other side, but here I think "on the water" is overrated. Unless you're right by one of the inlets, the boat ride to open water takes too long, gotta go slow and not make wake in all the little waterways, even most of the intracoastal. Might as well trailer the boat to a marina, which gives you access to anywhere along the coast. Though there are some condos/apartment buildings with docks that are pretty close to the inlet.

Welcome to the forum, from the Atlantic side

Welcome to the forum.

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Do you cook it whole?

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Nice mutton, good fast shot. He was going to run away but then got curious/confused and had to check you out. I've seen this before.

Disturbing, the soundtrack adds to it. Thanks for sharing.

I don't think weakening the shaft with a recess for the flopper is worth any practical benefit towards streamlining the shaft. I'd just get a good quality 7.5mm flopper.

As you know stainless steel tends to be pretty soft for drilling whereas the spring steel AKA carbon steel Rob Allen shafts are made of is very hard. You can't drill it with a normal metal bit, or even with a cobalt bit which I use exclusively for drilling stainless steel shafts. The only drill bit I know that will work on spring steel is a Carbide bit in high speed. These carbide bits are relatively expensive at $10 - $15 for the 3/32" diameter, and brittle, if you drop it on a tile floor it will break. They also tend to break if your drilling angle is anything but perfectly straight.

I've had a few, drilled a few holes in RA shafts, and broke my last carbide bit about a year ago. I will not be buying it again. Consider that RA shafts are galvanized after the flopper pin hole is made. When you drill a new hole the galvanizing is removed and the metal will rust quickly. A rusty flopper pin hole equals a flopper that doesn't move freely making the shaft useless.