Posts by Sames

Thanks guys, the rifle itself is a DPMS SASS in 7.62x51mm, with an 18'' match grade fluted barrel. I added the Leupold Mark 4 rings and scope, which is a 6.5-20x50mm LRT with a 30mm tube to bring in the most amount of light for low-visibility shooting. Also added the Harris pivoting bipods, JP trigger set at 2 lbs, PRM Monopod, Magpul PRS stock and AAC 762-SD suppressor. With 168 gr. Hornady match ammo it will shoot amazingly well for being a semi-auto, and will do consecutive 1,000+ meter hits if I do my part. With the suppressor attached and subsonic ammo, it is very nearly silent. With full-power loads, it sounds about like a .22lr.

It was a fun project to put together and tailor it to my specs, and is really fun to hunt coyotes and deer with at long ranges. I can't seem to stop though, once I finish one gun project I find myself working on another one...

I collect guns, especially precision rifles, since I used to be in the long range shooting department. Here is one of them, which will shoot sub half MOA depending on how well I am shooting that day. Sorry for the poor picture quality, you may have to click on the pic to see it clearly.

I just sneak out when she's sleeping and leave the cell phone at home... :boring1: :outtahere:

Great video and pics of you and your son Marco. Making awesome memories for sure, I hope to do the same with my son when he is old enough.

That is true Dan, and to help compensate for that I use my offhand to balance and turn the gun.

I lost my trigger finger overseas, so I use my middle finger on the same hand. I guess if your trigger finger hurts too bad to bend you could try it that way rather than switch to a different hand.

Great post, thanks for sharing.

Dang that looks good!

Beaver Lake is where I do all my diving, and I was actually out this weekend and saw the search and rescue divers out near one of my dive spots and feared this was the case. Prayers for the family.

I will say, for some reason Beaver Lake claims many lives each year. For us freedivers, the biggest concerns for me are getting snagged by the standing timber that is all over the place under the surface. It acts like petrified wood and the branches are sharp and have zero give- if it gets ahold of your suit it isn't going to let go easily. Add to that the murky water and it can be very hazardous.

I don't know the exact circumstances of course, but where he was found there is a lot of standing timber in that water, anywhere from surface level to 40 feet or so.

Not sure how well it would work for spearfishing, but the US Navy used this type of "camo" on its ships during WW2, to confuse enemy submariners as to the size, class, distance, and direction of themselves so the enemy couldn't accurately calculate their torpedo spreads.

That's great you have him as a friend, people like that are increasingly rare these days.

Thanks for the update, nice job on those fish!

Hey Stan,

I dove a lot in Puget Sound, and if you haven't found out, the waters there are a bit on the cool side- where I dove the water temp averaged low to high 40s. I would get really cold in a 7mm suit, and my face would go completely numb within a minute. Unless you have no nerve endings you may want to reconsider purchasing something thicker than a 3 or 5 mil like you mentioned or you won't be staying in the water for long.

There are lots of good wrecks out there between 30-60 feet deep, and most have a good supply of shootable fish hanging around them. Good luck.

Wow, that is awesome- there's nothing better to eat than fresh crawfish, way to go.

It's hard to believe the quantity and quality of fish you guys get on such a consistent basis, I am so envious of the dishes you can prepare. Great spearing

Great story, awesome catch!

Thanks for a great write-up and the pictures, that place looks beautiful. Good luck on your dives!

For such rough conditions it seems y'all made the most of it, nice haul.

Here goes for my first thread, I am hoping to help add to the freshwater spearfishing subforum by posting about my spearing trips on this thread. I finally found some free time to hit the lake this past Friday for some morning spearfishing. Visibility was worse than I was expecting, in one area I was able to see about 10 feet clearly, yet in others my hand would start to fade out of visibility if I fully extended it. Despite the poor conditions, I was able to test out my new Speardiver Pacific wetsuit, which I have to say exceeded my expectations in terms of comfort and design. More on that later.

I was able find an area with "good" visibility that contained several massive boulders all on top of each other, which created excellent hiding spots for catfish, which was my primary target (bass are illegal to shoot in this particular lake). I tried to dive down on the shallow side of the rocks, slowly glide over the top with my speargun aimed, and then pull myself down into the crevices and ledges. For whatever reason, the catfish here are very skittish and won't hang around if you come upon them suddenly or move quickly. That being the case, I did manage to spot 4 catfish in this area, and was fortunate enough to put a shaft through 2 of them before they shot down into the deep channel of the lake.

Although not an amazing day, I was thankful to get a few nice catfish fillets for supper. For those of you who may not know, the one on top is a blue catfish, and the one one the bottom is a channel catfish. I hope to be able to contribute here frequently and with more successful results. Thanks for taking the time to read this post.

Although I was never planning leaving the military and using the GI Bill I received upon enlistment, injuries sustained in Iraq forced me out. I was sure glad I had that GI Bill to put myself through school after that, otherwise I would have accrued a massive student loan debt. If you can get into the military Hookinfish, definitely use that GI Bill.