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Haa haa...Craash called Armondo a mexican again!

Since you been away chris...we now call him "Baby Castro"! Hes like a ruthless dictator! Hes oughtta control!

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MY UNDERWATER SPEARFISHING VIDEOS

stichrunner

i have a Riffe mid handle Hawaiianand it is quiet and shoots like its on a GPS trail. When i first got my riffe i did not like it,it is a little harder to load due to the shock cord attached to the bottom of the shaft witch you have to load threw the bands of the gun. you then have to use the shock card to hold the spear in place so it wont move around on you i have used it about 10 times now and I'm getting pretty good at loading it under water for taking more then one fish at a time. i have been told that a riffe is a one shot one kill gun but if you learn how to use and reload it you will love it. AS FOR ME IM SURGICAL WITH IT:moon

I have been inMBT one time and i cant complain the service was great i have also been in bay breeze once and i cant complain either. That's just my opinion. The gentlemen at MBT gave me a price on a full set of dive gear for a buddy of mine and i could not believe how cheap he was, I had to work on my guy for like 2 mouths and buy like 5 setsto get that price, i was very impressed with the service.

Evensplit

If you shoot a Riffe regularly, you should be able to load it just as fast as a biller or jbl. It just takes pratice.

craasch210

Let me second the idea of the getting away from the spear tips. Some people use a break away tip. Break away tips (I think that's what they are called) are great for keeping fish on the shaft, but they didn't seem to be as easy to get out fo the fish underwater. I think they are the standard for big blue water fish though.

I recently switched to the sea hornet/spearfishing specialties tip and love it. It is similar to the riffe tip with the exception that it has a retaining ring on the barb to allow you to pull the shaft out easier. In my experience, when I switched to the tips with the longer barbs, I had much better luck at keeping the fish on.

Sniperspear it uses a similar tip, except that it is all one piece. There is no removable tip, the whole thing is just one piece of steel, sharpened at the end. I honestly have never seen a fish get off that rig since he began using it. I guess a disadvantage to that tip would be that if you severely damage the tip, you would have to replace the whole shaft instead of just the tip (but he's been fishing with it for a while now with out any problems. He just resharpens the tip and good to go.)

I hope some of this helps. I'm sure you can tell by the responses that there are many different preferences on types of guns. I will post up the next trip we take and you are welcome to come if there is room. I have three different guns ranging from 48' to 63'. You could come give them a try before you purchase one if you would like.

Chris

craasch210

Hey. I apparantly got the names mixed up when I posted about "Josh" from Bay breeze. Josh is "Fender" on the forum and also used to work at bay breeze. It was John I was speaking with (who is also a good guy). I have dove with both of them and got their names mixed up. Just wanted to post that in the interest of clarity.

Sorry about that Josh. Dont know how I got that mixed up, except that you guys are both young surfer type duded.

Chris

FenderBender

Thanks Chris, I was reading and confused because I didn't remember that happening when I worked there. Preciate it