Yeah a rod through the entire gun almost like a guitars truss rod.
Heeeyyyyyy....you're onto somethin' here. Maybe.
It would add weight but it would be stronger and you SHOULD be able to use a thinner piece of wood? so...maybe it wouldn't be a net weight gain after all. Interesting.
Its amazing, Im going to start applying for some jobs and move out here by years end, mark my words. Viz is amazing despite really heavy wind (but the wind kept me on the inside of the drop off.. theres massive chop on the edge)
everythings amazing, Im beside myself. Its like Jurrasic park everywhere you go
Hawaii? Unreal. I went there for a visit in 1977, before I was going back to .....this is true....Ohio State to finish an agronomy degree.
I was there about 5 days when I decided I was going back to Ohio, sell anything I had and get back to Hawaii. It was kind of hard finding a job at first. But then I lucked into this shrimp farming career and it all worked out.
Not sure how old you are....but man, to be young again and off on another adventure. Go for it dude. 
Jake and Hank: Just make sure there is top to bottom visibility when diving so deep.
Dive safe!
I'm gonna pull the trigger on at least one Terry Maas vest. Even at 60 feet sometimes the vis isn't so great. I've lost Jake from view a few times. And if he stays down for a minute and a half or more, there's a bit of a .....alarmish feeling that arises.
I ask myself sometimes...same when I was surfing...."why the hell am I doing this"? 
But then that 35 lb cubera comes up to you.....or that perfect set....no one out and you're all over it....That's when we realize why we're out there. Only two things are better in life. Making kids....and waking up with them in the morning.
I'm on the list. Jake needs one more than I do. but maybe we'll get two.
Many thanks my friend.
How does one go about getting one of these Don? I am very interested in doing so. This little guy needs me to come home for the next 20 years or so....until I get him through medical school haha His face pops in my head a LOT when I'm in the water.
thanks marco, we are being really carefull actually as intense as sounds. i would never do dives like that without Dad or another certified safetydiver wating for me on the surface watching my back. im lucky i got a badass buddy like dad. happy safe diving!!
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decrepit old fart buddy is more like it. <img src= " height="23" srcset="https://spearfishing.world/forum/images/smilies/emojione/1f606@2x.png 2x">
I did some diving off a friend's zodiac when I lived in Kuantan, Malaysia. Badass boat. We went out to some of the islands offshore north of Tioman...open sea out there. ...well, the South China Sea anyway. Very stable.
Yes, it does. I found an online manual and Jake started pushing buttons on his D4 last night.
Pretty amazing piece of gear.
You can go into the history and not only see the depth and time, but you can see the whole profile. As the dive starts you can see how deep you were at how many seconds into the dive. How much time on the bottom. Unreal.
And yes, the alarm was set at 102 feet. Why? Not sure. But at 103 it went off.
Sorry for the dumb questions. I'm really dumb about all this new tech. I didn't send a text until last year.
Thanks.
One question. Jake is using an D4 Suunto computer. On his third dive (103 feet it started beeping at depth and scaring the fish.. I can't find the manual. ?? What is that?
thanks for response ,now,i want know wath is the distance between loading butt and the andle in a mid handle daryl wong ,sorry for my insistence but a need to know this for build me hibrid,thanks spearos
I have Rear Handle Plus hybrids so I can't help you on that one. So, without calling Daryl, and actually he probably would be very helpful if you ask him these questions, I would measure the gun on the screen on his website and do the algebraic equation to figure out that measurement.
(if pic is 100 millimeters long and handle is 25 millimeter from end then real gun is 55 inches long so .25 of 55 inches would be the distance) I think....I took Algebra a Loooooooonnnnng time ago. <img src= " height="23" srcset="https://spearfishing.world/forum/images/smilies/emojione/1f606@2x.png 2x">
Regarding overpowering Wong hybrids, I've tried it a few times.
I've put three 9/16 band on my first 55 Wong that he put two on when he gave it to me. I couldn't hit anything. I don't think it's shaft wobble because it's semi enclosed track. But it was probably the recoil lifting the muzzle a bit making me shoot low.
I went back to two bands, which looking back, I should go back to 9/16 also. With the original setup, one of the first fish I shot here was a 43 lb cubera. Long shot too. I was on top of his hole and had chummed it. I came back and there he was, looking out into the channel. I hit him near the lateral line going forward. The shaft came out through the gill plate. Solid shot.
Now, Jake the muscle man has convinced me to use 5/8. He even shorted his to 24 inches from the 26 and 27 that Daryl puts on them. I guess I'm getting used to it but I'm going back to thinking that the smooth shooting 9/16 may be the best. I think I actually tense up right at the trigger pull anticipating the recoil.
I'm not a gun expert by any means. I've only shot Riffes and Wongs since I seriously started spearfishing. But that's a little I've learned.
I find that diving in water less than 78F cuts down on my bottom time. <img src= " height="23" srcset="https://spearfishing.world/forum/images/smilies/emojione/1f606@2x.png 2x">
Thicker wetsuit, more constriction.....brrrr. I dive best with a thin suit in the summer time.
Nice pics Aaron. Beautiful spot.
There are a lot of models. Which one are you asking about?
Hybrid - Wongguns.com
A GR 55 hybrid stock is 69.5 cm long including the butt plate.
It's 4 cm wide and 4.8 cm deep at the butt end. It slightly tapers to the muzzle end (where the carbon or kevlar barrel starts) but not much. I would guess less than half cm on each side.
Got a few nice fish yesterday despite the semi shitty weather. We went to Glovers last Sunday to Wed for wahoo but had no luck. We did get some reef fish there but no pics.
These are from yesterday. Went out to one of the cuts. Lot of current and wind. We were dropping outside and coming in and got a few. The grouper are always there. I was hoping maybe a cobia or two would show up but not to be.
So, I went all the way out to the drop and found the resident school of dogs. There were a couple of the commercial spearos on their canoes just north of us so I think they had been there earlier when the dogs were still inside the cut. They must have charged them and spooked them. When Jake and I saw them, they were on the bottom and scattered a bit.
We hung on the surface and waited. Soon they started schooling and moving up in the water column. I did a few dives down to 60 and hid but they wouldn't come in. They would just move off into the blue.
From where I was the wall slopes down a bit and there's another rock/coral formation that's about 85-100 feet. Jake was in a groove and he went to the bottom. Three dives, three fish. Two were over 100 feet.
It was weird. At 60-65 feet, the fish didn't want anything to do with me. But when Jake got to 90-100 feet, they would come right into him. I could see it all from the surface. I was amazed and really feel old today. I can't keep up with him but I can safety dive him. I was meeting him at about 25 feet and swimming up with him....and his fish. Pretty unreal.
Over and over I tell him, "Jake, this ain't no contest. You don't have to impress me". But he's just pretty gifted so .....who am I to hold him back? He's going to do it so better with me because I'll be his best safety diver. Shit, I have two more stepsons diving and Willy is 3. I guess I'm going to be a life long safety diver? Could be worse I guess. 
Have a good one.
They're lucky the boat with the guy taking the pictures was so close. Look at the guy in the last pic. He's not too stoked. Shiiiiiiiit.
I live in Belize so trying them on wasn't an option. But I emailed Dan my foot measurements based on that he recommended the Omer Millennium pockets. Perfect fit.
My son just did the same and got the Picassos. He says they fit perfect also.
CONGRATULATIONS !!! [']fricken fracken crabble frassen lucky bum....... <img src= " height="23" srcset="https://spearfishing.world/forum/images/smilies/emojione/1f606@2x.png 2x">
Welcome and Don called it. Nice place.
