[Billyboy]

Strangelove and Ted

Thanks - I really appreciate you replies. I've been onto the Aquamar web site and just need some help from a Portugese speaker to help place my order for the valve (have someone in mind). I don't think the Cobra will become my main gun, but a nice curiosity. How the hell do you get them up to 300 psi?

I've just come back from 2 weeks on the Great Barrier Reef (the Keppel Islands) where we get lots of coral trout around 3 to 5 kilos, as well as the occasional big cod. We generally use long, rubber powered guns with pretty heavy spears. Always the chance of getting a good mackeral as well. I think the Cobra may be good to have in the boat for the occassional crayfish we come across. Mine is called a "junior" which I guess suggests it's a beginners gun, but it seems pretty heavy duty compared to the modern stuff that's available. I doubt whether it's even been fired - the spearhead is like new.

Thanks again

Bill