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Old August 4th, 2008
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Re: Laser sights for spearguns

I have a laser that is waterproof to 60M, it is red, would rather have blue or green but that is 200.00US upgrade for green and 700.00+ US for BLUE, (I am not going to pay anymore for this idea) it is mostly the cost of the diode with exotic materials than installation.

I believe that it is a waste of time actually, the range of even a bad gun is 10feet, a good gun 19-20 feet.

You would most likely need a laser during dusk and early morning, in which case it may be ok, but a flashlight is more practical.

however, if fishing in a cave, better to swap out the laser for a flashlight that will actually get you a large ULUA or Napoleon Wrasse.

Myself I dont shoot Napoleons.

If you shoot for Dinner for small family, Laser is pretty useless, and money could be spent on better gun, or bouy for stringer.

I dont imagine after 2.5 years of fishing every weekend, that a Laser would help much at all, it is just an excuse to have some high tech piece of crap under water and feel cool about it. camo suits dont get you much closer than good technique, I have seen better fisher men in swim trunks and t-shirts where I live, but the tech gear seems to get noticed and purchased as if it is necessary even by locals. I believe that proper skills aquired from fishing and learning from elder spearos is worth more than any tech products dreamed up from any spearing company.

I also previously mounted an Omer Cobra with the laser, and estimated the drop at 15 feet for the dot to be level with the gun at 12. wasnt such a useful thing in bright sunlight, couldnt see the dot at 10ft or even 5ft, at dusk may be different story.

set up looks kind of stoopid when you youre getting in the water with a laser mount and cammo suit next to a kid with a sling in shorts and a t-shirt, and your getting out with one or two decent fish, and he has a full cooler of reef fish!! (kid in t-shirt with sling feeds his family, tech nerd geets a couple fish and not because of the laser.)

of course we are fishing very differently, so it may be apples and oranges, but I guess that means I am picky.

in all I think laser on speargun is a waste of time, better to use high power LED flashlight on small backup gun, and fish with medium to long reef gun most of the time.

current gun is a Riffe 110 Euro, no reel, on riffe 70ft float bungie and 2Atm float bouy with flag in 40-60ft of water, or in mixed drop off reef areas looking for Doggies at 50-70ft.

fast fish in bluewater may mean that a laser is a waste of time and one more thing to think about over just lining up the shot and letting instinct take over. if it is a long distance shot, you should have the drop shot technique down, otherwise you probably shouldnt be shooting large game in open water. shooting reef fish is easy without a laser, so shame on you if you kill reef fish at night with a laser, when you can do it with a flashlight faster and better.

good luck and safe hunting.
"Conserve da resources, only take mature fish, no juveniles"

TBGSUB
in Saipan.

really what good is a laser again?
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