laser pointer on gun?

[Almostafish]

Right.. What..?

Sorry guys.. Its Soap box time.

First of all if your going to chastise people for bad grammar, sort your spelling out! I cant spell or punctuate to save my life, but I don't have a go at other people for it. Relax a bit.

Your seem very touchy about this subject bud, People are allowed to disagree with you and have their own views you know! If you need to work on your aim then, in my view, lasers are not the way forward. Nowt to do with the sporting argument that some my use, but just pointless as spears dont fly straight and laser light is diffused by all the particles in seawater so much that it becomes useless at very short range. This is not a scientific fact by the way, I don't know why lasers are bad underwater, its just an idea about the particles.


If your using thinking about the problems of using a palm trigger for a strobe or camera and the problems you may have fitting etc why not just loose the gun and use the correct unit for you job in hand? Save all the problems of fitting a camera to your gun.. Just use the camera?

Looking Cool, with your cool speargun and your cool tactical laser sighting system might well float your boat bud but.. And this is only my view.. I think its a little.. Well.. Odd. I shoot fish to feed my self and I freedive to relax myself, its not for anybody else and i don't give two stuffs if people, who I have never met, think I am " cool" or not. My kit is fit for purpose and does its job well.

Want to shoot fish? Use a gun. Want to photo fish? Use a camera. Want to photo a fish being shot? Use your camera with a buddy doing the fish shooting.

Again just my views.

Chill baby its all good!

[jtkwest]

[quote=Almostafish;695718]Right.. What..?

Sorry guys.. Its Soap box time.

First of all if your going to chastise people for bad grammar, sort your spelling out! I cant spell or punctuate to save my life, but I don't have a go at other people for it. Relax a bit.

Your seem very touchy about this subject bud, People are allowed to disagree with you and have their own views you know! If you need to work on your aim then, in my view, lasers are not the way forward.
there was a good portion of this thread , that was deleted and i was banned as a result. it seems that this is a very touchy subject, for some reason, the subject, to me is just a subject for discussion, but to others, comes with moral dilemnas that i dont fully understand, (or give a crap about, honestly) and led to some direct personal insults to me , that got me heated, so that is the reason for my semi/ hostile, and sarcastic tone, SORRY<

[Agar4Life]

I'm gonna attach a 10x Schmidt and Bender scope to my gun so I can shoot fish out to 100m.
Also, I'm gonna get night vision goggles to go in my mask.

[Marwan]

Originally Posted by Agar4Life

I'm gonna attach a 10x Schmidt and Bender scope to my gun so I can shoot fish out to 100m.
Also, I'm gonna get night vision goggles to go in my mask.

cool!, now all you need is an earpiece and large wetsuit sticker that says "SWAT" on the back of your wetsuit

[Mongrel454]

[ILDiver]

A laser is not a totally dumb idea. I would not use one, but it does not mean I think it's dumb or bad. But unless every fish you shoot is sitting still, then it may not be too practical imo.

As far as the learn to shoot your gun...it's a good comment, but could be taken as an insult. But yes, learn your gun, where it shoots and how it shoots at various distances. It is like a hand gun or rifle on land. Good shooters, the gun is an extension of them and the aim is natural. Lasers and such make the average shooter more accurate, but they will never be the pure shooter like the guy that practices his reactive skills continually.

[octopus]

I think that half an hour spent shooting plastic bottle with new gun is not wasted.

[Daryl Wong]

Aloha Gang,

Just saw this thread. I think anything that helps divers to insure that they can harvest fish within reason is good. I'm used to crystal lear waters where I live, but I have also had the pleasure/displeasure of diving in vis from 1ft to 300ft. In some parts of the US and world I'm sure there is a need for Lasers and lights. I do know many divers dive with small hand held lights to check caves and ledges. Many times I wished I had a light on my gun to see what it was pointing at in a hole.

A good friend asked if there was a way to mount a light on my hybrid and I said sendme a light and I'll find a way. I don't want to derail this thread, but I just thought you might find this interesting. I haven't tried it out and am still awaiting a report from my friend. I made it removable and also mounted it on two guns in different places to see if one is better than the other.

Check it out.

Aloha,Daryl

[capetownguy]

I like the idea of a light too....that one is small enough and in a good position so as not to hinder your spearing....
let us know how it goes ..

[Mongrel454]

I like that idea Daryl..small, compact and looking in holes is always a problem(light wise)

[ILDiver]

Ray Oder was showing us his gun. He mounted a light very similar to Daryll's. He said the center of the light at about 3' from the fish is just as good as a laser sight on a regular firearm

[gman080788]

jtkwest ... you are my hero... i agree with what your saying exactly... the only thing i think is truly "unsporting" is scuba spearing ....

[jtkwest]

Originally Posted by Agar4Life

I'm gonna attach a 10x Schmidt and Bender scope to my gun so I can shoot fish out to 100m.
Also, I'm gonna get night vision goggles to go in my mask.

im surprised the vis is good to 100m in plymouth, i guess 50 degree water gets really clear, down in the keys we rarely get better than 40 meters vis becuse the water never gets below 72.so my laser beams only need to go 30 to 40 meters here

[jtkwest]

[quote=Daryl Wong;704171]Aloha Gang,

Just saw this thread. I think anything that helps divers to insure that they can harvest fish within reason is good. I'm used to crystal lear waters where I live, but I have also had the pleasure/displeasure of diving in vis from 1ft to 300ft. In some parts of the US and world I'm sure there is a need for Lasers and lights. I do know many divers dive with small hand held lights to check caves and ledges. Many times I wished I had a light on my gun to see what it was pointing at in a hole.

A good friend asked if there was a way to mount a light on my hybrid
what about cave diving HID lights set ups? i saw one online on ebay for 450$ us ,(1500new) where the bulbs were head mounted and the rechargeable battery packs were remotely mounted to the belt, seems to me , if you add an on off button by trigger and mount the bulbs under muzzle, and batteries could go either in the barrel, behind trigger,(for ballast)or on a detachable,(emergency)lanyrd to belt pack.this would be great for caves and holes. i know from my indoor horticulture experiments that HID lights are SUPER brite when compared to any other lights,(hence use in cave diving)

[jtkwest]

sure, now that daryl wong comes to chime in on my side, you all agree now. where are all you sh%t talkers now HA HA! thank you daryl, i was about to get virtually lynched by some pissed englishmen, i think.