Posts by Mighty kc

  • First Fish

    John,


    My schedule has changed, I am working 4 - 10 hour days now. You and your wife are welcome to go with me, I need help with the sheepshead. 2 with 1 shot ! I have never done that in 30+ years of diving!


    Good shooting,
    Keith

  • SCUBA spearfishing

    I dive the Northern Gulf, and there are far more scuba divers than there are free divers. I see them every time I go and I can tell you that I kill just as many fish as they do. Scuba is not an advantage to me, it just allows more people to participate in diving because it doesn't require the physical ability and practice.


    I compare it to this;
    I love archery. I started bowhunting when I was a teen. Not many bowhunters back then, and all bows were recurves, the compound was not available. As soon a compound bows came out, lots of people started bowhunting because the equipment made it easy to become proficient at 20 to 25 yards. I still hunt with a recurve bow, but that's my choice. A couple of years ago, it was made legal to hunt with a crossbow during bow season, and more people were bow hunting. Some guys shooting compound bows started raising hell saying "that's not a bow and it shouldn't be allowed". I still kill deer during bow season, just as many as the guys with compound bows and crossbows.

  • Speargun Shaft speeds vs the sound of gun

    Mangrove snapper, I aim between the eyes, and hit them behind the gills. Red snapper, If I aim between the eyes, I hit them between the eyes. I guess red snapper are not as smart. I shoot some noisy guns, my dive buddies tell me so often. Pneumatics, Aluminum Euro guns, and now a Co2 powered gun. (I don't like wood). I don't have issues with fish leaving before the spear gets there.


    KC

  • My new / used 120 speargun Pelaj Nemesis

    Jose,


    I have one of those guns in 120cm. I like it, it shoots straight and the bands are easy to load. My only complaint is the safety. I cannot operate it with gloves on. I epoxied a reel mount to the bottom of the gun, and attached a roballen reel to it.

  • Barracuda with Alessandro at the FADS

    Marco,


    Get that boy a full suit! and anything else that he wants for spearfishing!



    You guys remind me of when my boys were small. I got a kick out of seeing him going in for the "kill shot"


    Great video, Barracuda are one of my favorite fish


    Keith

  • Fear of spearfishing Barracuda

    I shot this one back in spring with a pneumatic with no floatline or reel. I was shooting sheephead and other small stuff in 60ft of water with maybe 10 or so feet of visibility. He swam out from behind a pipe and I was pretty confident of the shot. If it had not worked out, I would have lost a gun. I have shot a lot of Cuda, and the only injury that I have had was wile putting one on the boat.

  • Bought a Maco2 CO2 speargun

    Dmitry


    This gun loads easily. you slide the shaft down the barrel and engage it to the trigger mechanism, then open and close the valve to charge the gun. I purchased a Beauchat 100m pacific reel with the pneumatic adapter and it fit the gun well. I purchased the gun mainly to replace my 130cm and longer band guns. I have had difficulty loading long band guns since I injured my shoulder several years ago. This gun takes a little getting used to with aiming. Its not like a rail gun, but a lot easier to become accurate with compared to a pneumatic. It is very powerful. the spear has passed completely thru everything that I have shot with it so far, but the largest fish that i have shot with it was a 34lb cuda. I shot Cero's and mangroves with it, and I felt like I was shooting a squirrel with a 44 mag. Anyway, I bought the gun for large fish, and I plan to find some as soon as the wind lays down and I have a break from work

  • Bought a Maco2 CO2 speargun

    I would like to make a correction to something that I stated earlier; This gun DOES NOT float if the co2 bottle is full. I had the bottles properly filled, and went diving Sunday. Although the gun is not uncomfortably heavy, it does not float with the spear out with a full co2 bottle. although the conditions were good, I did not score with anything big on Sunday. Got a couple of mackerel, some Mangroves, and 1 Cuda.


    KC

  • Bought a Maco2 CO2 speargun

    Update;


    The co2 bottles that I used on my last trip were filled at a local big chain sporting goods store, and were not filled correctly. I have since had them filled by a competent person, and the change in velocity is significant. I have had some old 5/16 shafts re threaded for use in this gun, but I think that the 10mm may be needed now that I am shooting correctly loaded co2 bottles. At $85, the shafts are not cheap, but I think they would be very difficult to destroy given the diameter and material.


    Plan on spearing an area that we have named "Jurassic Park" this weekend (Sunday) fully intend to try it out on some big surfboard size AJ'S and Lemonfish


    KC

  • Bought a Maco2 CO2 speargun

    Here' a pic of the slide ring. As you can see, it is large. But, all of the fish that I shot yesterday were complete pass thru shots. (the were all 20lbs or less). I used the co2 because I have not found an apparatus to fill the air tank from a scuba tank. The air tank that came with the gun does not have the little fill port on the side of the nozzle, it has to be filled from the end. all of the scuba/paintball fill stations that I see only attach to the little side nozzle. I took it to a scuba shop and they said that they could not fill it. I am calling the shop that I bought it from and ordering one. I like the idea of filling it myself.