I'm afraid of the dark.;)
Cheers, Don
I am terrified. I think that's why it is so enjoyable.
Saw a couple nice bugs 2 1/2 weeks ago out at night.... try to find them again!
Posts by dustyyoungblood
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This Thread is to share your 2012 CA Lobster opener stories. And if anyone is looking for a dive buddy Friday night, give me a call. I'll be shore diving Orange County and might need another buddy in the party. Its gonna be a good time.
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We should start a new thread. Best handle design!!!!
A pinned handle in a pocket has a big advantage.... NO SCREWS!
I was working on this Pinned Aluminum handle receiver, when I finished one and found of that several others had already been making pinned handles.@Phil, do you get credit as the first to make a pinned handle?
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Beautiful gun, but that is NOT a properly recessed handle... I would not want to shoot that with 6 bands... Be safe.
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The stuff looks like crap, but man you guys are a tough crowd.....
Perhaps he has better stuff and those are prototype photos? Being an Industrial Designer myself, we build lots of crude prototypes to prove out concepts as needed. Judge a book by it's cover I guess.My favorite things for sale are THE DECALS. That's when I laughed out out SettingSteel SpearGear - Spearguns, Pole Spears, Performance Spear Gear, Slip Tips, Spearfishing Decals, Spearfishing Chartes - 1 Breath 1 Shot 1 Kill
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You have done well. nice wood work on the band slots
I'd love to read the design specifications for this. Dimensions, shaft size, and parts list? Makes it much for fun to discuss. -
There have been some good circumstances noted in this thread that make good cases for a safety. But I cannot bring myself to want a safety, under any circumstance. A safety is just not safe enough! These trigger block safeties are not much more than a trigger guard that moves. When I enter the water and load my gun, my mind knows it is time to concentrate and be in the best control that I am capable of. If I had a safety to resort to.... well, I think it might make me lazy and careless. I kind of enjoy being on edge while loaded up. It keeps me in control and responsible.
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Cool gun. How much programming time invested in getting in cut on that really cool Laguna?
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I give up, you set the bar to high. Tremendous beauty !
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Cool Dan. And nice photos on the carbon gun.
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If I would have had Double Trouble I might have got 2 fish.
Oh man..... Now I get the title "Bummer"
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Well done! Go fire it!
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Agreed, awesome slow mo shot! Thanks for posting
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Rather well done. You are gonna mis it way to much to part ways.
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It may just be personal preference, but if you are trying to get a big bull to come a little closer... wouldn't you want a wetsuit pattern like this?
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More summer fun.
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Is that a darker wood species on the rear sides? Looks well shaped with lots of skilled labor. Nice work!
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Well, I wandered back to SB to see if any interesting topics were up..... There were a few. One today started to discuss the growth in new divers we have seen in Orange County CA. I commented that the Surf Industry media was playing a big role, others commented that it was the fault of the OC Spearos club.
Then poooooffffff! thread deleted!!!! WTH. I give up. what a strange place that forum.
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my hero! Dammmmmmmm I need a boat
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In 1979 I lived at Victoria Beach, a hippie named Richard always had a few of the local cuties gather when he came out of the surf with a nice fish.
The other big chick magnet was a dog named Bear,a huge red husky we had trained to pee on tourist's beach towels. I decided getting a dog was out of the question and set out building a pole spear out of some left over carbon fiber rod I had in my garage. I borrowed the green trident head from my childhood flounder sticker and I was ready to go.
The next day I walked down the long stairs past Ozzie Nelson's house armed
with my frog fins, mask, and new pole spear. At the base of the stairs I was refreshed by the spray of a large shore-brake as it curled down the sand.
On the beach, my friends were playing volleyball as I waited for a lull in the set and hustled through the white water.
Once outside the breakers I pulled my mask up from around my neck, sealed it and dropped into the crisp clear November water.Now the lack of wet suit, big surf and a long pointy thing got me thinking a dog may be not such a bad thing after all. Just then a small corbina finned into view, I dropped down and
saw the dark shape of a large uncovered halibut. In one motion I dove to
the bottom thrusting the frog gig hard into his head. Great billows of sand erupted as I pined his head and finally was able to get a death grip within the gills.Now the fish was convulsing bait fish as a started for shore.
As I looked at my friends on the beach I could see them standing up and pointing at me. Finally a little attention for the non-surfing Yankee Boy.
Wow.... where did all that water go...what is that loud hissing sound ?
As I glanced over my shoulder a sick feeling came to the pit of my stomach,
like when you run out in front of a car and say ...Oh Shite!
The huge wave sucked me in and over the curl, I didn't know where my mask
and polespear were but me and my flatty were heading for shore.
I also don't remember body slamming that tourist with the black knee socks and sandals, lying on that new $20.00 beach chair.
Then the great wave receded with it's bounty of coolers,boggie boards and tanned bodies.
Bear was licking my face when I opened my eyes, blood was dripping off my trashed hand and a 25# Halibut was in my lap.''That was Far Fuc-kin Out'' how long you been surfin flatties? asked a sleek blond bartender I knew from the White House Pub.
It was right then I knew California was my new home.
Beach's, barbecues, and blonds with a dog named Bear.Cheers Don Paul
Don, I remember you telling this story live at the legends event in San Diego. Which was so much fun to be at. The fact that you walked in the ocean and got a 25# halibut on you first try is testament to your abilities. I think you included some more colorful details here. Especially the dog, that's really funny stuff. I cannot imagine how much fun you must have had living down there. Thanks for sharing.
