Posts by Morgames

    Dan, I've been reading your posts in this thread dating back to June 2009 and August 2008 regarding shark spikes for spearguns. In your 13 AUG 2008 post you emphasized the need for a spike on spearguns in south Florida waters and your subsequent posts and exchanges with has and Tin Man address was of attaching a spike to a gun with further mention that it need not protrude more than 1.5" so that a PPD may be slipped-on. I have two spearguns that I shoot and both have slotted muzzles for the power bands which may be problematic for shark spike attachment(?). One gun is a Riffe Model M Mid-Range (44" stock) teak mid-handle gun and the other is a custom mahogany DeathStick (built by Ken Jones) that is fitted for carrying a [second] freeshaft on the left side. The DeathStick is equipped with a slide ring that slips over the Hawaiian flopper tip to connect the shaft to the shot line. The Riffe mid-handle has a horizontal reel and the reel line feeds through the line guide underneath the muzzle. Both guns can also be (and frequently are) configured with Neptonics' break-away rig so the spearshafts' shot line is connected directly to a float line to the surface float. I doubt Ray Odor or a successor is still manufacturing his original "kill spike"/shark spike since he must be in his early 90s, i.e., if he is still alive. With my DeathStick I can slip a .223 PPD over the tip of my spare shaft IF I haven't used it but, with the Riffe, I have only the blunt wooden muzzle to fend-off an aggressive "tax collector". I'm wondering whether you or your colleagues might have appropriate solution for my two wood spearguns. Any and all advice is appreciated as I continue spearfishing (both free diving and on scuba) in my late-60s.