Posts by LunkerBuster

  • Neptonics Floatline??

    hahaha, that is too funny phil.


    they are cool, I use net floats (egg float) on the ends of mine and it is the same idea but a lot less elegant and it doent let my line glide over another line, instead it grabs and pulls the line with it

  • Chumming?

    i have no problem with it but I dont do it...I do gut my fish in the water and like to scale them too, the falling scales through the water will intice a lot of movemement...i have once of twice shot a fish and "brurleyed" it up to get a grouper to come out of a mave cave..it only worked once and I've tried three times

  • An experiment in vacuum bagging

    Quote from rich vandusen

    I'm not sure, that's just what Phil told me when he was messing around with vacuum-bagging blanks. He ended up tossing them in the trash.


    However, it may work with a few well wetted-out layers of carbon/kevlar sleeve over some type of non-pourous core material....


    Jeff made a spear with his son where I think he used pvc as a core for a carbon Kevlar sleeve. This would be a great application. Wonder if he did that

  • An experiment in vacuum bagging

    the thing that is really cool about this is the universal application of the pressure...it will always be more efficient to squeeze in from all points equally that just a few clamps.


    plus 22inches of Hg is nuts on a full sized gun stock of 40 - 60 inches :@

  • Neptonics Floatline??

    Kelp carrot us nice when diving without a float or around others w floatlines. It keeps the terminal end floating and makes your line run over other lines. Still hardly essential but serves a purpose

  • gun maintenance and inspection

    very good point about the lead..a knockout from a gun would be most complicated from over weighting :@


    gotta love 20 mm bands for safety <img src= " height="23" srcset="https://spearfishing.world/forum/images/smilies/emojione/1f606@2x.png 2x">

  • gun maintenance and inspection

    Quote from Joe Acevedo

    It would be a good Idea to change the Mech out on some of those 10 year old tuna guns , Ill never forget my buddy Plossel laying on my Deck after his Riffe went off while he was loading the last band :( ,,
    the scary thing was, untill then the gun was working Flawless


    first of all Joe, that is very scary.
    secondly, I want to ask you a question and i hope you dont take it the wrong way...do you think that your buddy would have felt as extreme of a recoil force if he was loading in the water? I have always felt that loading guns out of the water is just an invitiation for an accident, not that he was doing anythign incorrectly, just that the physics are different in air and it seems like a risk. Not knowing the circ around your story, do you think it would have been as powerful in the water?
    not trying to derail this into a debate about loaded guns etc, just wondering if that was a factor.


    thanks

  • Speartek floatline??

    the way i see it is the line is like the gun...there are better ones for certain circumstances, but if you are gonna go with just one, use whatever feels the best to you..I will say that Dan's rig is the best way to keep the line managed, it is always out of the way and the perfect length for the depth. I have two because I found 100 ft too long so now I have a 60 and a 40 ft.


    on beach dives they are still annoying in the surf but they are easier for me to manage in the water as they are stiffer....just aboiut what you like and what you are okay with putting up with.

  • Speartek floatline??

    as a fan of/ user of tube style lines, I would say that it sounds very good on paper, but the price has to be really cheap to justify one IMO...I find that even the best fl is still vuleranble and short lived and if you make your own then it is more cost effective..I use uv treated plastic and 400 lb tuna mono, ss thimbles , SS 400 lb swivels and tuna clips as terminal tackles..they cost me about 25 bucks for 100ft.