Posts by LunkerBuster

pretty sure it is on the bottom..

Quote from hau

LunkerBuster---thanks for the trick of spotting the hog and then going back up to breath up for the kill dive

they are really the only fish I feel comfortable doing this with because they tend to stay in one area unless chased....
i also find that a lot of hogs will follow me out into the sand when I dive onto the reef and then out... I don't know why, but it happens and helps me get the tastys back home for dinner

i have held both guns and feel like they are probably pretty comparable...given that there are replacement muzzles out there(i dont like either companies muzzle) I would lean towards the mako because of the decreased cost and SS mech.

if you want, I would try to borrow one of each and use them before purchasing.

I love how the RA doesn't have a loading pad btw..makes it easier to aim and to hold IMO

the main hog trick i use is to dive on the reef's edge and then swim out into the sand...I then aspetto in the sand for a while watching the reef...I have found more than a few hogs moving into or off of the reef like this...I often can only spot them like this and have to surface to breathe up and then descend to shoot, but it still helps me find them...

I also check every large fan coral near the edge of the reef.

wow, very cool of you guys... way to put your skills where your beliefs are...awesome

ill be watching for updates

a trick i like to use is to find their spot and swim a bout 30 yds up current, then i dive and find a piece of relief that i can hide behind. i do this for a few seconds til they come out and then i usually have a shot from the top/back angle.

incredible fish and a great story too.

world record or not, that Malibar is amazing..:)

thanks

crystal....perfect...i guess i didn't know what a bias cut was..thanks

thanks for the pics steve...suit looks really nice

any pics of the suits steve? specifically upclose on the material.

i thought so...no yellow at all, not one of our spanish macks at least

another great report...like taking me with you.

thanks for sharing.

gotta be careful with those cudas. they will fight forever...there is a video of on without any head or guts still trashing when it's spine gets hit....crazy fish

awesome fishing report!!!a budding Hemmingway in our midst

great looking king

very good write up so far buddy...can you elaborate a little more about step 7 please, i don't think i quite understand the procedure you are describing

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Taboo?? I can relate but, not talking about it would in my eyes would be coward es.

So U shoot a short.

How the hell do you learn if not from experience.

I personally don't like the feeling of shotting a short but it has happened am I am glad, not learning from it would be irresponsible

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and that is the difference between a fool and a wise man.....

I remember the first short fish I ever shot. It was my first time diving and I was using a fiberglass pole spear, I had just shot a nice mango at about 16" and was feeling very cool. I dove down a few times to look around (no stalking skills at this point) and saw dozens of snappers, they all looked about the same size and i saw one that looked massive. Ifollowed him around and finally lined up the shot, released the spear and as soon as the spear hit I knew he was short. The other fish were tiny little schoolies and they made him appear massive. I felt so guilty about the shot and the mistake that the lesson was indelibly burned into my mind. If you don't KNOW it is legal, it is short.
I learned a lot that day about the magnification and the lack of scale can do to your visual perceptions...as soon as I got home I added tape wraps to the spear at 10,14 and 20 inches so I could always have some reference point, that's where the gun marking evolved from for me.

Howdy buddy, glad to have someone from the dark continent:)

looking forward to hearing your stories and learning from some new experiences

i use the marks to gauge before i shoot, look at the fish, then the gun then the fish, if i have to look again, it short

i should add for clarity, I understand that there is a required tradeoff in order to reduce mass and streamline the gun, but the mech should be small, the handle bigger IMO

the handle it the only point to apply force one handed and since it is the fulcrum(i guess really your elbow or shoulder is, depending on how you move the gun through the water) you need to be able to effectively transfer maximum force as efficiently as possible

just looking at the pic again and i have two things pop into my mind

the first is that the loading pad on this gun, and almost every euro, is too high. Not that it is not effective for loading, but it seems like it is right in the way when looking down your arm...I find this to be very true of the beuchat munidal handle as well. and the mako, whichever is the cheaper handle.
Why do they do this? does anyone else want the thing lowered an inch, maybe even just a half inch?

the second is that sharkfin tabs are infinitely superior for many reasons, why aren't they universally used? I have a RA shaft and it is bendy and hard as shit, I love it for those reasons, but if it had tabs it would be about 30%better for the loading and positioning the shaft in the mech without looking, and or the loading/rigging options.
What are it's downsides?price? bigger hole in the fish, maybe?

what it is about the handle of the gun is so much about the angle of the handle. that is sooo big for each shooter based on hand size and angle of the fingers..if you are forced to break your wrist up or down at all, it loses a considerable amount of strength (see; sloppy drunken punch breaks YOUR hand not other guy's face)

i personally like as big a handle as possible because i have big hands and find i get cramps from holding the smaller handled guns (i hate the handles on the wong guns i held at blue wild....felt like squirt gun handles)
I would tend to shapelock i guess..i really should experiment...