As you see my friends it's mostly personal preference: Marindiver doesn't feel comfortable woth the Seatec handle, while Badlander loves it. Meshari had bad experience with T20, while I am okay with them. And so on, and so on.
But what kills me is that all european gunmakers are running towards the same direction: in a couple of years the classic french style arbalete will disappear, and all newly designed spearguns will look
the same, being the only difference in the quality of materials, the stiffnes of barrells, the strentgh of trigger, but still all in the same design.
Actually, almost all the last two or three years new european guns show the same features:
-a handle similar to the C4 Monoscocca (Pathos, Effesub, X-Fire, Thunder, Cayman: all the same concept)
-a barrell that is a mix of old Omer master and SA raiguns (bigger mass and full length rail)
-A Totem style muzzle (which means: no muzzle, just a couple of holes for circular bands and two hooks to fit the line loop).
This standardization does not necessarily mean a technical improvement: it just means to me tha gun builders are following a fashion, just running behind a standardized taste of a globalized market. Let's see some examples of recently designed handles:
--C4 Monoscocca (the reference point)
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effesub:
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Cayman
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Pathos
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X-Fire
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Thunder
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As you see they all look the same. Comments...?