Posts by sdeisen

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Marco I like the style of the handle I chose. When you grab it from any angle it naturally straightens out in your hand. The handles you posted, while ergonomic and attractive have to be grabbed correctly and kept lined up in the hand. When diving a lot of times I aspetto and let go of the gun and then grab it sideways to swing around. Unlike where you are from, here we usually only have shootable fish coming in from one direction, not surrounding us like you have Like Dan said, though, because the gun is a bit more robust I'm eager to see if the handle provides enough leverage, I think it will. If not I will get Hogue grips.

beautiful laminate

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Not sure sdeisen needs a butt pad. Sedeisen is one of the few spearos I know of, who shoots enough times a week to have calluses on his chest from loading his gun so many times.

sdeisen and nate;
That is a VERY NICE gun. Congratulations

Hau not sure if you are calling me a bad shot or saying I shoot a lot of fish <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">

Thanks for input and kind words, im going to take more pics soon.
About a butt pad, we tried doing g-flex with a piece of flip flop to the wood and it didn't adhere correctly.

A few weeks ago Japsw put up his blanks for sale and I said jokingly to Nate "hey I should buy this blank and you can make me a gun". He agreed and we set about getting the parts. I had my mind set on everything being black. In the end I wound up with a black handle, shaft, reel, reeline, line guide and nametag.
The lineguide wound up being not as nice as the stainless version so we opted for the S.S instead.
The entire gun was shaped, mech pocket gouged and recesses recessed with a hand full of tools;
basically a nightstand-router table, dremel tool, screwdriver and a small wood chissel.

Over the last 2 weeks Nate poured a few dozen hours into shaping the gun and peicing it together.
In payment he recieved one can of Grizzley pouches, and they were out of wintergreen.
The gun is 55 inches with 127cm band stretch.
I got a shaft from Dan that has the fins right at the mech
Here are some pics I took real quick before work the last couple days.

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Cant wait for the video, awesome as always

I keep coming back to watch this video. Really a good looking place

Cool video with VERY nice fish. Is that a steep drop at 6:05?

Viz is back in sofla. was top to bottom from 30 out to 60 feet. looked decent in shallow as i was paddling out too

And I finally have fishes to eat

nice diving marco

I've only shot 2 BIG cudas ever. But I feel like however they were handled wouldn't stop one who's trajectory met with you. That said look at all those cudas

“He could have bled out, we nearly lost him”

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You could tell when they were coming in. All the little bait fish would haul ass to the bottom.

What will you do with the king? Beautiful snappers too

Nice fish and kayak!, i know that second spot

Welcome

Thanks again, good luck with the rest of the stuff.

As he said, the blank's laser straight

Ill take it

oOoOo looks very Guambodian. Sounds like the stage is set for very big things. Were they reef white tips or oceanic white tips. With you being on a reef wall like that it could be either. In hawaii i loved seeing the reef white tips but DID NOT want to see the oceanic ones

Hello everyone. It seems our little tournament is plagued with recurring bad weather. NOAA is calling for wind and high seas again. At this time I will not be setting a new date for the tournament. Once winter really begins and we get some consistent lower winds I will post again; Starting fresh.
Sorry to everyone who rearranged their schedules trying to participate. I am excited for the event to take place and look forward to the weather cooperating.