Posts by LunkerBuster

  • Aeris F10 freediving watch

    x2 to what monster said...the prowler is a good watch, i believe the F10 to be a great watch.


    the prowler is alleged to have good pc interface as monster said but better display than the prowler and I think, user replaceable batteries which is a plus

  • Diving with goggles

    Conventional goggles have a skirt or soft material to help it seal. Just like a mask, this allows the internal volume of the eye covering to change. If the volume is static the change in pressure might be a lot less notable in the first two ATMs. Just a thought

  • Diving with goggles

    I would winder if the issue is about the eye itself. The eye can move about a little in the socket and it is a soft organ itself. Inside the goggle there is very little air and so to moderate depths the eye might just be able to flex and move in or out until the pain threshold is reached

  • Line release or not ?

    i have shot the same gun ( an AB biller) in my pool with the slide ring, the low profile slide ring, a shaft drilled and tied with mono, and a freeshaft.


    they all pierced a target at 1 m, at 2 m the stock slide shaft did not , all the others did, at 3 m neither of the slide ring shafts penetrated. none of them penetrated at 4 m



    that is not a strong gun the way it comes rigged and the trigger is not stout enough to power up for real performance.


    the slide adds drag on it's own and places the line and a bulky clip in the worst place to add drag and mess up a shot.

  • California dragon swim

    I dig it. ESP the MPLA nonsense. Shame that permiates our communication.


    Although every post after the first one is members only right?


    Some how I forgot about the finer aspects of our fine forum.
    I just need to buy a new scanner soon.


    Cheers, Don

  • Freediving class fins

    Quote from byronq

    I have to admit, the Nemo's/Waterways have a better snap than plastic fins. I feel more efficient, and should do tests with both in the pool. Part of my warm up is to work on efficiency, and get across the 25m with as few strokes as possible. I'll test both fins tomorrow, and reply here.


    From what I'm hearing, most of the competitive "depth" freedivers are moving to a much softer, responsive blade (i.e., 25's vs 40's). The result is that nice inversion with minimal effort, conserving energy and 02.


    i agree with this as a scrub, non competitive diver.



    the only thing I would change about my fins is to get the medium or even medium soft blades next time...Dan told me this and I was hardheaded and used to plastic...my ankles and lower limb tendons can handle the MH, but to what gain? i think the snappier and softer ones would actually give me better propulsion for the effort, and would certainly require less effort.

  • Freediving class fins

    A little more than a year i think...all I know for sure is that i will not be satisifed with anything less ever again.


    I still feel the same as when I first used them


    http://spearfishing.world/fins…on-fin-review-thread.html


    Quote from lunkerbuster

    I dove to check the anchor, make sure it wasn't on any coral or anything, and i was quite impressed with how easily i got to the bottom. I found that i use slightly different muscles when finning which I assume has more to do with the angle than the carbon. throughout the day I was pleased to find myself able to get places easier. that is the simplest way to describe it, I wasn't any better at diving, diving was just easier...i feel like the more i get used to diving with them, the more i will be able to turn it into better diving, as in, by knowing that I can move about easier, particularly on ascent, i will be more relaxed and calm which will turn into longer dives.


    the best example i can give was a particular shot. I was diving near the end of the day and had been schooled by small bait fish throughout the day and had considered taking a shot at one as a skill shot. So it was nearing the end of the day and I saw a small rainbow runner, maybe 11 inches hauling ass about 25 ft below the surface. so I dove and found him again and saw his path and tried to predict his movement and the fish saw me so he took off, I started sprinting the way I would with my old fins and damned if I wasn't able to stay with him enough to pull off a very nice stone shot on him as he pushed out to like 15 ft...


    he would have been gone daddy gone before.....at the end of the day, they are just fins and are only as good as the diver, BUT, these are without a doubt the best fins available without consideration of the price, and when one does consider that, it is a no-brainer. I look forward to many many dives with them and I highly recommend them to anyone.


    from the above link

  • Freediving class fins

    pretty cool...to me, it is always the indian and not the arrow. BUT....if one piece of equipment will make you a better diver it is your fins.
    clearly a lot can be done with any fin but the comparative ease of finning with CF vs plastic is unreal. I know I am a better diver with my cf pursuit fins than I was with my cressi gara 2000's....not to say anyone on here in garas couldnt whoop me, but the same diver will dive to the same depth easier and with less effort using CF over most other materials

  • Hawaiian sling - Rigging with a shooting line

    one thought I will add to this thread is how easily this can be rigged to the floatline too...I was for some reason very limited in my thinking and was only imagining the line going to the sling...Duh!!! it is a super easy breakaway rig and that should give you a lot more flexibility with the shooting line too.


    I estimated three times the length of the shaft and found that to work well