This is a pretty awsome thread
when I first found Deeper Blue I used to re read this one quite alot, I learnt so much, its a shame we dont see Riaan here much these days but his work is away from computers out in the bush so I guess we can forgive him
Regards the target practice bits above, with my new guns although they are bang on accurate, I find in the heat of the moment I dont always have time to aim properly and as a result I seem to shoot high but how high depends on the amount of paralax (Im looking slightly down at the tip so in relation the spear is aiming slightly upwards). So as a means of avoiding this, of late Ive been tilting the gun over to 90 degrees, so that the hieght axis of the gun is in line with the body length of the fish, so now all I have to do is get the new vertical axis of the spear in the middle of the fish (easy) and aim just behind the head and bingo my hit rate is near perfect on a slow moving fish nearly always a head shot
and so fast.
Im pretty chuffed with the technique anyway, probably find out now that everybody does it but they werent going to tell me
