wow!!!! glad shes ok. looking at the broken pieces i think even with the new pan screws that handle is marginal at best. for a small hybrid that shoot 2 bands it's probably ok but for anything else i would use any of the aluminum versions. i'm wondering if this happended happened before.......
I have no first hand knowledge just hearsay....but I believe yes.
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Thanks Dan, I just pray he is safer than me.
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Here's the tough guy... he going through the no smile phase.... but check out the crystal Vis.
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Welcome mate.
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The third screw ripped out. Quote Sheri.
Found my answer.
Don
The girl is switching to Tin Man's handle. But where is the rear left screw ?
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Normally i see more fish when there is a nice current going .
For me off shore it has been the same...no current, no pelagic game fish with one exception.... local Cali Blue Fin tuna. on a dozen dives over the years I have had the small Blue Fin swim along a wall with a deep drop off on a slack tide as I swam for the boat to change spots. The Island is 60 miles off the coast and the currents at my point can be like a river at times some times wind driven.
Terry Maas's book Blue Water Hunting has a great section on currents.
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Very cool story and pictures Chris.
My boy Dillon saw his first Yellowtail at Parsons Landing
last week. He said the Vis was 75' at Dr's Cove. I heard he was freediving 30'..... I need to have him back off a little and slow down or I wont be able to keep up when I hit 75 years old.:@
Great post, thanks mate.
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Its raining at North Laguna right now:(......Good luck tonight guys, be safe and watch out for the hoop boats.
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Monterey pine ,pine cone
Very cool, that is a first for me, what a great material for a northern gun.
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Welcome Ben, Tonga is one place I have never dove, been ti Raotonga in the Cook's a few times and really l loved the people and crystal blue water at the drop off.
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Welcome Mike, good to have you.
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Thank you for the reception. My stories are aged and I feel it best to watch, listen, and learn before speaking. Curious how this mirrors my spearfishing technique.
You are in a great spot mate. I would befriend some local SB freedivers up there and just get back in the water. It will all come back fast, I would just go slow, relax and make sure your rig has a slip tip as it will hold better if the shot is not perfect and the fish runs.
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Thank you Phil a perfect start. I would like to also see posts from Woodman, Tin man, Metelin,and Wood Man. Then I will find images of one of my early gun mentors work who lives in Hawaii. His name is George Kuznecovs, a early master of the elegant wooden gun and burner of film.
I only met him once and handled one of his fine creations when I first met Jay Rife many years ago but was forever inspired. I would love to own one of his guns some day.
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Don Paul---
as soon as I saw XP100 I thought exactly the same thing.
I used to shoot an XP100 in IHMSA" back in the day". <img src= " height="23" srcset="https://spearfishing.world/forum/images/smilies/emojione/1f606@2x.png 2x">
XP100--welcome to the best freedivingspearfishing forum there is.
Cool... flinging the Fireball.
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Ciao Dario. Welcome mate, good to have you.
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That gave me chills, I would want to fly fish anything close in the US some day, but I would rather do it with just my boy...GF and a nice Iron skillet for the one I don't release. Thanks Aaron, very nice film.
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is this thread just for European builders or just" euro" builders
phil
http://spearfishing.world/spea…us-speargun-builders.html
I would be honored to have you start it off... as Charile, Jack and Wally would have loved your work.
I'll add to this as I get my home office set up later.
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