I really like my little Riffe and Cobra - and my stalking skills are good. But when I get close to fish I prefer to photograph them - so I need a longer range gun so I don't develop a personal relationship with the fish before firing.
I was looking at a mamba 90 but am not sure how much farther it shoots than what I have. My little riffe shoots a 1/4 inch shaft with two 5/8 bands and almost no recoil. It is quite difficult to aim if you try to hold it on target and works best when I don't really aim but quickly point and shoot - then its very accurate.
I used a mid-handle pneumatic way back in ancient times when coelacanth's and pleseasaurs roamed the teaming waters of Lake Michigan . Pteranodons would try to pluck us from the surface during breathups as we evaded the groping pseudopods of deadly carnivorous clamasaurs . Those were heady times and all that stood between a man and almost certain danger was his trusty pneumatic and the clawhammers we used to pry off squid tentacles. If you stayed to long in one place barnacles would swarm you like metal filings on a magnet. Man it hurt ripping those off - but it was the kind of pain that makes men of boys.
