virgili---that is a great looking flasher sir. Excellent research and design. :thumbsup2:
Good luck with your sales sir. 
Posts by hau
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monster slayer---I ALWAYS used Riffe Euro spears in my Caymen ET. (with a loading tab for those LOOONG 2ft shots on the elusive Florida hog fish
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IMO, the SAFEST bet is to contact Mark of OMER USA. Mark has always been very helpful to me.(GREAT pictures and nice write up about the ET. Thanks for taking the time to share your knowledge sir
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The one thing I like about a flopper shaft on a big fish is the fish is more subdued with a thick shaft stuck in it. More so then with a slip tip cable.
IMO, I have found this to be true also, which is VERY important in sharky waters.
Where I am now, in Guam, there are TONS of sharks to take your fish every second they can. We pass up MANY "good" shots waiting til a STONE shot presents itself, otherwise a nice fish is wasted if it is hit poorly and the taxman takes it. For me, it is a sickening feeling watching a nice fish, helpless with a spear in it, get totally destroyed by sharks. Of course, your situation may vary with your location.
Generally, I save my floppers for the reef and use my slip-tips out in the blue where the only thing my $85. slip-tip hits is the side of a fish. Slip-tips vs rocks/wrecks/coral is not economical, IMO.
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seal's roller guns are beautiful
I've been the roller route years ago.
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Hau. You are aware that the ulusubs are measured in total length. So my 150rh is the same length as a 130 rob allen.
Just making sure you knew. They are incredible guns
Yes sir, I have spent months and months researching which gun I wanted to buy. I actually had DABEERs Ulusub 140RH in my hands AND it went down the hatch, inside my scupper :laughing and I could not believe that that gun floats. I swear, DABEERs140RH must weight 20-25lbs. :@
Thanks for having my back LunkerBuster :toast2:
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When is your Ulusub arriving?
I do not know sir. As soon as Behslayer can get one produced and sent to me I guess.
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Ooooooooh boy, guess what I just got in the mail today, :excited1:
Wood Guy---my 2 new Combination Spike / Line Anchors are beautiful sir. Thank you for another perfect product. All I have to do now is to get a bluewater gun to mount one onto. REALLY looking forward to inlaying this beautiful spike into a new bluewater gun ASAP.
Please let me know when I can send payment for 2 more of your CSLAs designed to fit my Riffe Euro 130. Thank you for ANOTHER quality product sir :hail1: -
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monster slayer---nice fish brother:D GREAT picture
AND perfect wife to buy you this gun "as a token of appreciation" :thumbsup2:
I am now shooting a 130 Euro gun and JUST switched to 3 X14mm X 27inch small id bands from FreediveStore.com and this set up ROCKS for me. I do not know about other spearos, but the hardest thing (for me) about chest loading a gun is the stage in the loading process that I call 2nd stage of the loading process. (For me the first stage is to grasp the grip in one hand, the band in the other hand and throwing the gun up into my chest.) Then comes the HARDEST and most limiting 2nd step for me, which is reaching around with my grip(handle) hand to grab the band that I am holding onto. This, for me is THE hardest part of loading. Once I get both hands on the band I can crank that band all the way back to the furthest fin/notch no problem. Longer guns or shorter bands made this 2nd step hardest for me before I switched out my bands to 14mm. Before, any gun that had a 55inch or longer pull was limited by my ability to get my second hand on the band. An example of this is my last gun. It is a 130 that is 59inch from the back of the band slot to the butt. Before, it was my limit to pull the 2 factory 32inch 16mm bands. After changing to 3--14mm bands, I can pull 3--27in band with 2in wishbones. I am not good at math, but I can tell you that my 7mm spear is noticeably faster now, that the bands lay REALLY flat/tight to my barrel, that the recoil FEELS smoother, accuracy is increased now AND I do not dread loading the gun each time. Check it out yourself, 14mm FreediveStore small id is not expensive and ties up really great and will really power up your rail/euro gun. (Just my opinion)
Sorry this got so long,
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phantom 110 railgun.
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Welcome to THE best freedive spearfishing forum ever.
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LunkerBuster----"You need to get these cats on the forum hau' ----I know LOTS of great spearos that never or almost never post or join ANY forums or social media. Some spearos are just not interested in social medias.
Hardline---"Hau I demand more photos from such a beautiful place like Guam to go with these reports....Clear blue waters, fish, beach bunnies, etc."-----Yep, I'm just glad I got here when I did. I now realize that I wasted years and years before I finally left. I'm sure that there are many other places in the world that offer a better place for each of us. You just have to decide what makes you the happiest, whether it is staying where you are or venturing out like I did.
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Go TEAM GUAM :thumbsup2:
Our own Guam spearfishing team won 1st place in the July 22, 2014 Micronesian Games spearfishing championship.
Team members Ray Flores, James Borja, Mike Cassidy and Stephen Meno took the team gold medal AND individual silver medal in freedive spearfishing in this years Championship. Congrats to a great bunch of guys and champion spearos. :toast2: -
No report, but there is a GREAT video of what happens when these 2 fish and many others meet the "Leagues Deep" freedive spearfishing team. :laughing:
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fish from today
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Disregarding the whole scuba vs freediver thread objective, (back in the day a good freediver could take more fish than a scuba spearo, ask Don Paul). ONE of the main factors of spearfishermen being targeted is that spearfishermen are an easy legislative target. Meaning we are small in number, we are not organized, we do not pay off the legislators, we are highly visible, we are frequently targeted (and fined) by FWC and others, we have no voice in DC. Shall I go on? City polluters and commercial fishing organizations are NOT "easy legislative targets" for legislators to attack.
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I'm familiar with the omer Cayman ET. The gun is well designed and built, all the components fit and work well together. It's a nice looking gun.
But I feel it fails to occupy any necessary niche. The whole purpose of a pipe speargun is to be light and maneuverable with good power and range, and be relatively inexpensive. The Cayman ET is heavy (hard to track), cumbersome (inconvenient to swim with) and expensive. At the same time adding nothing to power and accuracy, only the convenience of not having the shaft fall off the track as you load it. The latter can be achieved with a deep track.
This ^^^^ is perfect information.
I was given one of the first Omer Caymen ET 105s to test years and years ago and I really enjoyed shooting it, even though it was just a 105. At that time I was in Ft. Lauderdale waters and preferred at least a heavier 110 length gun for those reefs. At that time, the Cayman ET was THE first PRODUCTION near pipe Enclosed Track guns. Not a true pipe gun, as it has a cuttlebone shaped alum barrel. The Omer Cayman was soon followed by the first TRUE Enclosed Track pipe guns (ETPG). The Cayman ET never let me down and after I shortened the bands it would really spit that 6.75mm spear with no spear whip. I bent several spears on fish but I was not surprised by that and I was even using the shortest spear possible.
IMO, a 130 Cayman ET could be a VERY fast spear, but I would make sure to have at least 1 or 2 spare spears AND wishbones. I seem to remember that I went through wishbones often. I LOVED the CAYMAN grip and removable loading pad and the fact that the Cayman ET recoiled straight back into the web of my hand. I might caution any Enclosed Track users about taking close shots in the reef or hard surface with an Enclosed Track gun. If the spear tip hits the reef or hard surface and the rest of the spear is still in the gun. You won't break out the top of the Cayman ET track like on a wood enclosed track, but you will bend the 6.75 spear and just a slight spear bend will stop you from being able to reload the spear into the enclosed track.
Conclusion---the Omer Cayman is a nice gun but it has its limitations, like any other gun.
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Check this CSLG (Combination Spike Line Guide) application that I'm planing to use. If things work out, there will be NO drilling needed on my Riffe Euro 130. I am hoping to simply remove the Riffe factory muzzle screw and the factory line guide screws and use those same holes to attach my Wood Guy CSLG.
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Your friend is a REAL fish assassin
Nice to watch him work
Great video
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I use it to brain fish.
Just be mindful if you find yourself handling the shooting line in front of the gun with a powerful fish on the shaft. If the fish makes a rush the gun can come up behind you and stick you with the spike. Ask me how I know
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100% agree
To increase safety using a spike, I simply keep a rubber tip protector on my spike at all times until I need to use the spike. I take a 1 1/2in piece of 14mm band, tie a constrictor knot in one end, lick the untied end of the protector and slip the protector on the spike--just like I do my spear. I ALWAYS keep spear/spike protectors on my guns.
(used to use wine bottle corks but I quit drinking )
hope this helps
