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I posted a bit over on spearboard about this - but anyway. Got my Little mt0 the other day - after talking with Iyadiver and vacillating between it and an omert20 mimetic - probably 90 or 100cm.
I opted for the riffe but it was a real coin toss.

I went out to shoot pictures of Lake Trout (best one is #70 in my gallery below) and it was a great day! Sunny, calm - viz was at least 40' - with some variance in the thermalclines. Got some great pictures. I wanted to test out the MT0 but had no plans to spear anything. Put only two bands on it just to get a sense of how it shoots. I went down along the breakwall in about 22' of water and a school of Lake Trout came by at a good clip. Since I was allready down there and not moving they kept right on going by - they were about 15' away - probably 9-12 from the muzzle so I figured it was safe to shoot - out of range - plus they were tracking pretty fast and I hadn't held a speargun in 30 years. Fish were around 20 inches. Well, of course, I hit the one I was aiming for exactly where I was aiming - right behind the eye on the gill plate! The shaft was right at the end of it's energy so the fish was merely stunned for a few seconds. Shooting lake trout is..er.. frowned upon in these parts so I felt lucky to have all my questions answered with one shot! (there is one trout in that school with a lamprey eel latched onto it - I wonder if I could pick it off....)

Very nice balance on the MT0 - I have a 36 inch 9/32 shaft on it and the extra length gives a nice feel. The gun was quite transparent in use and tracked effortlessly. My concerns about range were also abated - with a third band it'll be perfect.

check my gallery here, or the one in the link below for some pretty good pics of these beautiful fish. here's my fav so far.