Posts by Don Paul

  • South Florida Bluewater Build.

    Please take a spotter with your for you first shot, they can stay behind as you cock and shoot.
    You can brace your non trigger palm on the gun butt until you figure out the recoil.
    Nice job mate.:toast:


    Cheers, Don

  • Top 10 reasons why I Shoot a Hybrid

    Quote from tufual

    Don even tough i made my gun from scratch you my friend are on another level !!! Can't wait to see your future projects . by the way that aluminium handle looks really strong . good luck man .:thumbup:


    Thank you mate. This gun will be a very slow build to replace my current gun in time which is still killing fish.


    Cheers, Don

  • Top 10 reasons why I Shoot a Hybrid

    Quote from sdeisen

    Tis the king of guns. Still one of the only guns I get excited to see.


    Thank you buddy, that means alot.
    Than you will really like the next generation I'm building little by little.
    I cast the grips from tooling clay I made a latex mold from. The barrel will be a Metal matrix composite tube made for a navy project that went south a few years ago.
    Today I milled out some of the handle and pressed in my trigger pivot bush's, a lot more metal to remove.
    Your the first to see this. ;)

    Cheers, Don

  • Top 10 reasons why I Shoot a Hybrid

    Quote from sdeisen

    double trouble is a hyrbid? I never noticed



    Yes.
    My gun has a square, stiff (high moment of inertia) 7075 T6 foam filled core, and fabricated rear mech from 17/4, along with line releases for each shaft.Boron/carbon side pods provide a cuttle bone shaped barrel able to handle up 800 lbs of rubber.The pods contain champers and ports allowing the gun to be trimmed (water or lead shot) for 3/8, 9/32. and 5/16 shaft weights. My gun floats with the bottom shaft in,but is ballasted to sink nose down for safety.
    To kill noise and feel better in the hand I bonded and SS screwed Aussie lace wood sides, open muzzles with line cross over pins for shaft retention of both shafts, 17/4 mech mounted at the very back to increase rubber pull.
    I CNC milled a cast handle to include a clevis end Ti push rod and articulated
    light wt trigger. All my components were weighed to the gram for a balanced launch platform.
    I had some BF Goodrich glue that (thanks Space Shuttle) boiled at room temp, I glued deep grooved delrin tracks to the barrel, the wood encapsulates the tracks on the sides.Overall lengthis 66''. Epoxie top coat.



    Cheers, Don

  • Why build Hybrids? Pros and Cons

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    So, I admit, it is a lot about who he is to me as much as how his guns work. Jay Riffe didn't invite me to go spearing with him. (just saying....I know he's a good person but also a busy man)



    That's because we're out diving hard feeding our sushi craving family's.
    I'll send you some Riffe stickers for your boat, before long the whole family will be down there diving.;)
    You have a standing invitation to dive with Julie Riffe and I any time your up my way, but it may be a wet bumpy ride.^^


    Cheers, Don

  • Top 10 reasons why I Shoot a Hybrid

    Don Paul's Top Ten. ''Why I Shoot a Hybrid''.



    # 10. Love the carbon fiber look.


    #9.Less cutting of dwindling teak timber.


    #8.Only have to sand half the barrel.


    #7.Quick disassembly at airport allows me to declare, '' Just sailboard parts sir''.


    #6.Store my car keys, spare change and gold necklace in the front hollow tube, to control muzzle flip.


    #5.Got a great deal on broken windsurfer masts.


    #4.Too cheap to buy long straight exotic hardwood.


    #3.Entitled to use super secret ''Hybrid handshake''.


    #2. Acceptance to Elite Diver bashes.


    And the #1 one reason Why I Shoot a Hybrid......


    Love big busted chicks coming up at beach asking ?
    ''Is that your Wong?'' :thumbup::thumbup:^^

  • Revolutionary new speargun on ebay

    Hurry get a bunch, then wrap some Pep Boys ''Real Carbon'' wrap tape to the front and Ace Hardware's Digital
    wood grain tape to the rear, and they will sale for double that price.^^;)


    I actually saw this on FeeBay last month but didn't want to cut in to any Gun Seller's sales.^^
    Now the cat is out of the bag.


    Cheers, Don

  • Why build Hybrids? Pros and Cons

    Quote from hank

    Having shot a hybrid the most over the last 30 years, is there a reason why?


    I'm using a Wong 55 hybrid but I'm not experienced with other designs other than the Riffe C3 and Baja Plus.


    This could turn into a very interesting thread.


    I will get back to you tonight after work. The short answer is my stress calculations were easier for me with materials I have worked with as a metal fabricator. I wanted more stiffness with less cross section to handle 4-bands that store 520lbs of pull......but the real reason was the dumpster where I consulted was always full
    of free Space Shuttle trash.;) I did buy the Ausie Lace wood cladding though.


    Cheers. Don

  • Why build Hybrids? Pros and Cons

    I would give Terry Maas the credit for the Hybird as we know it today and Skip Hellen was the first to clone
    Terry's gun and put a couple up for sale. Some time after that the design and power was watered down to
    what is readily available today. The two guns I have shot the most over the last 30 years are Hybird construction, but differ in the methods of Terry's original gun. I believe Dr Wong has produced the greatest numbers and variety's of the ''Maas'' style.


    Cheers, Don

  • Impaler Spearguns feedback

    Quote from tufual

    what exactly is the point of a hybrid speargun ?


    The jury's still out on the definition. ;)


    Wood/metal tube
    Wood/carbon tube
    Carbon/metal tube
    They were ''invented'' when someone broke the muzzle off a wood gun, and had a broken metal tube gun he hacked the end off of.;)


    Cheers, Don