Posts by LunkerBuster

  • How much experiance before going it alone?

    this is a dangerous question because to someone with bad judgment and a poor head on their shoulders, my anwer is a death sentence.


    since I dont know you well, yet, my advice is exactly what Stephan said. Ask yourself if you are ready to deal with anything that could happen? do you carry a first aid kit? do you have a flare or radio? without a buddy iwould never get in the water without those items. just because there are situations I cannot handle with just my hands and spear gear.


    for example..if god forbid I were to start bleeding (shark or cuda strike, slip with my knife, spear accident) and didnt have a big zip tie ( i keep them in my kit) I could VERY EASILY bleed out duting my .75 mile swim back to shore. Now I am still in a lot of trouble with a buddy, but I was a lifeguard, and so were a lot of my friends and we are good swimmers. If I had to I could swim someone in and that would leave them to apply pressure to the wound and greatly increase their chances.


    so the best thing to do is spend as much water time as you can until you are feeling confident AND mitigate as many risks as you can...use a plat so your catch is out of the water and there are less sharks, have a big float and a big flag, etc etc


    above all be safe and have fun

  • Looking for used starter gun

    upon thinking about this more...I dont know who you are buyingthat gun from, but I would either totally bail ( if it is a stranger) or if it is a friend or something, throw them 50 bucks for the trouble and then still get dan's gun.


    in a few years, or possibly months time, you will be very upset about the money you invested in this biller.

  • I've decided on a second gun - band question

    Okay so I dove w the newly rigged 90 and I loved it. I miss a little bit of power for long open water shot on a few macks that gave me the slip, but this is not a bluewater open water shooter.


    I had a faster reload and the really cool thing about it was the two second shots I took. I didn't rewrap the mono just engaged the shaft and reloaded and there was no tangle from loading the second band.


    I have to spend a minute or two in the pool dialing it in and learning it's effective range


    Loading it was cake after the first go round. I tied a 19" band which was a little over 300% and found it easy to load. I shot without a thought about the reload. I might switch to one wrap of mono and just make it a short range speed machine.



    After diving with the 90 all morning though I did feel a little naked. I missed the 120. I am just a long gun guy. The 90 is coming w me on all boat trips though. It is a great tool but if I am only diving w one it will be a 120

  • Goodmorning beautiful SFL

    There are parts of the intracostal where that wouldnt fit though right? I can think of a few places where it is salt, not near a bridge and more than 200 ft wide. I think there are limited spots but it sounds like it isn't totally restricted

  • Spear b que ?? 3-26-11

    plans changed from the lack of participation so hau and I had a great morning dive in some nice viz ( at first) and managed two hogs and a porgy in about 3 hours of diving...my hog and porgy were decent, haus hog was manly and nice...he was kind enough to gift to me as I had a chef at my local pub eager to cook up some fresh fish.


    she came though huge as well...pan seared the fish in garlic, parley and cliantro and made HOT habanero salsa to go with it...
    I have pics of haus' fish and the food, but my damn gopro was still on upside mode and Ihave to figure out how to flip the movies to take some screen grabs