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I was ordering an Omer Cobra, but the Riffe Euro was in my local shop staring at me, and the Omer order wouldnt come through for 3 more weeks due to order lmitations (our shop, aquasmith needs large orders before omer will ship [means I couldnt get a special order on a 500.00 US gun if I wanted to within 2-3 weeks! really annoying!!]), so I wasnt going to wait anymore to go fishing, and decided to get the RIFFE.
I am going to ROTA this weekend in the CNMI islands, fishing just off shore at the many drop offs around ROTA, and this gun is the Inbetween Machine that I need.

Fortunately the shootout results from Skindiver magazine placed this gun as being more accurate over the Cobra, although after shooting the cobra and reading their comments, I wonder if their opinions were not a little slanted towards domestic products, as I feel the Cobra was seriously accurate. My Omer Cobra 100mm was used extensively for 1 year and 4 months till I lost it in high current!!!

I will only know after shooting the Riffe Euro if the accuracy is similar or even better, but lets say I am skeptical untill proven wrong.

I will update you on my findings.

best regards,

TBG SUB.

P.S. the old omer shaft, and all Omer shafts still work with the New Riffe Euro, so If you are not too jazzed on the Tahitian flopper you can always for Hawaiian, or Vis Versa, which is kind of nice! I am also wondering if the flopper placement affects spear drop significantly enough to change the accuracy ratings in the 1007 skindiver magazine shootout results. might be worth looking into, you know shoot each gun with both flopper setups and see what goes where.