Posts by tufual

  • Pitch pine speargun build

    hey guys just wanted to ask what do you think is a good length for a blue water gun and how long should the butt extension be from the trigger for hip loading a long gun because the 100cm purple heart gun feels kind of long to reach when chest loading also what is the best way to load a long gun . thanks :)

  • Pitch pine speargun build

    hey guys the speargun is basically finished , i tested it yesterday but the beaches was filled with tourist because of the carnival time so i had to go to the surfing beaches where the water was so rough and current was so strong that it was very difficult to stand in three feet of water , so i was only able to test fire it . i went with 3 5/8 band which was awesome [ a lot of power ] the shaft and gun body handled it well with no flexing from either . because of the solid purple heart body the gun is negatively buoyant with the shaft loaded and slightly positively buoyant with the shaft unloaded . surprisingly though the gun is rather perfectly balanced in the water because i kept it bulky and because of the purple heart's total weight there is VERY LOW recoil and it is extremely quiet , all you hear under water is the movement of the band trough the water , the density and weight of the purple heart also aids in noise reduction , my father actually said the noise level is VERY close to that of his old Nemrod pneumatic gun which is what i was aiming for . the ER119 tool steel shaft performs very well although the corrosion is a slight issue , i can always go with the locally available stainless which will work just as well but for right now i treated the steel with a rust proofer that makes a black oxide layer on the steel . there is a double wrap of 300lb test 3/32 nylon braid for the shooting line but with the 3 bands it needs to be extended to 3 wraps , also the blue line is Dyneema wishbone cord and the white is nylon cord that i am trying as a wishbone material , all i have to do next is apply a wood sealer ,neaten it up a bit and test it properly .


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  • Pitch pine speargun build

    forgot to say that the main reason for the dry fire was to feel the trigger pull which felt around 8-10 lbs which is a little heavy but it is what i wanted and the stroke of the trigger is around 5/8 '' .

  • Pitch pine speargun build

    hey guys i bought some 5/8 bulk band today and did the some dry test shots of the speargun today , i decided to go with 2 5/8 bands and i am following the 300% rule although i will admit it does take some strength to pull 5/8 bands until they stop stretching . because i basically made a euro style pistol grip with virtually no loading butt it has to be chest loaded , it is impossible for me to pull the 5/8 to full length that far down to my hip because there is no loading butt to add length away from my hip . however the test shots were great but more importantly the ER119 tool steel that i am using for the spear shafts hit a 1'' ply board covered with cloth at a distance of 6 feet at full power and there was no bending of the shaft at all [ good news ]. when i went to the dive shop i also played with some JBL and RIFFE shafts and i have to say the ER119 5/16 shaft had the same amount of hardness and spring of the RIFFE and JBL spring stainless shafts . i will also say that Wishihadgills was right in that the purple heart does has some weight out of the water but i am hoping that it will trade off into a low recoil .:)

  • Shark and Bake

    spoke to my dad and he said bake and shark is mostly made with white and black tip sharks but really and truly any shark can be used for bake and shark .

  • Shark and Bake

    love bake and shark but as far as i know they use normal reef sharks . but most of the shark meat is now from Grenada my dad knew a guy in the 80s that only hunted shark , with a huge co2 gun around Trinidad . hoped you enjoyed it . by the way i once saw them bring in a sand shark to Maracas Bay to be used for bake and shark you could get some more info from the fishing village on the lefthand side of Maracas Bay .

  • Missed Fish

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    fish that took the Red Pill.


    funny as hell man <img src= " class="smiley" srcset="https://spearfishing.world/forum/images/smilies/emojione/1f606@2x.png 2x" height="23" width="23" loading="eager" data-tooltip="biggrin" aria-label="biggrin">