Posts by LunkerBuster

Hi renan. Welcome. Please treat us to some pictures of your beautiful home

Sounds to me like you didn't shoot him in the right spot hahaha

Looking good man!

You should have put the pants on your arms hahahaha

It's okay. Even the man makes mistakes now and then hefe

Good point don. As always you help us see the whole picture

I don't know anything about marlin and crazy large tuna, but I do know a lot about physics. To a fish, the net buoyancy is all that he feels. spear to hard float, bungeed to another hard float bungeed to a bigger inflatable has a lot of fighting ability and doesn't have to cost an arm and a leg. Granted it is more to swim around with

The main thing about Cali diving is you need to be able to not freeze, good wetsuit , 5mm+, and not get tangled in kelp, so a reel or floatline w no float and be as streamlined as possible

Howdy and welcome

Very true words.
Especially about the fish who will "come back to life" and and really give you trouble

Nice to have a Hau post. Sorry it is about you being injured. Heal well buddy

I like the power head idea. It was what I was thinking about the whole time.

I don't know if you all saw Jeff's (tin man) post about his testing of the spike muzzle. He swung, not stabbed the spike on a gun into a fence post repeatedly. Making sure the primary vector was across the tip and not into it. This was to test the delrin and it passed

I used to be lucky enough to dive with Hau every weekend. He tested his muzzle spike with a huge heavy Torres .762 power head. It held up flawlessly. The spike on those muzzles is 1.5" out and in the muzzle

Thank you sir, for risking your ass to preserve what I take for granted all the time. Seriously, thank you

Also welcome to the best free diving spearing forum on the web. We are glad to have you

I hope Dan chimes in. He has a spike on his wooden gun

Those both look large and heavy. I only use flopper shafts so I cannot comment on those but on my polespears I like to have as streamlined a tip as possible

Good words hank, good words

You mean a rod through the entire gun? Integrated into the stock it might work, but I feel it would be tough to get it in without effecting the integrity of the stock

For the shark spike I would say you will need at least 1.25" sticking out and that much recessed into the stock. You could slightly angle your band slot with the front elevated. This will give some extra room under the front to anchor the spike (without having to move the slot back) and will help to stagger you bands and make them lay flat

Hahaha a funny typo and a very good blessing
I second

I thought a lot about that crutch idea. I don't think it would happen to me. Or you, having spent a few hours in the water with you off shore and a boat. Here is why. When you dive you are aware of your body. That is the key. What you use as your limit and how you know that limit is totally subjective, but you have that proprioception. The internal alarm will always go off for me before ill have the vest programmed.

I want it for the reason Tono articulated. Murphy. He lurks everywhere and underwater holding my breath I tend to want to mitigate risk.

I dive safer knowing I have a spotter. By rights I should push harder but I don't. I am instead more focused on being a good teammate and using the presence of the extra diver to work fish. I see the vest the same way. It will perhaps relax me but not encourage me to be reckless.

In a funny way it is like saying seatbelts make people drive faster.

I totally hate you

Enjoy brother. I know you will. Soak it all up and fill your soul.

God I hate you