just a quick post on breakaway rigs and slip tips

[stalker']

im buying a sliptip soon
and i want to know how they attach to my shaft i have a springbok steel shaft with a threaded tip and a pelaj threaded shaft as well

cheers

and oh yeah got me new pelaj gun (y) sabre

[Bill McIntyre]

Sliptips have a slide ring that fits over the shaft, an adaptor that screws onto the threaded shaft, and the tip itself, which sits on the adaptor. The adaptor is slightly larger in diameter than the shaft and slide ring, so it prevents the slide ring from coming off of the shaft.

The slide ring has a little hole on the side for cable or Spectra, and a crimp (for cable) or a knot (for Spectra) keeps the end of the cable or Spectra from coming out of the slide ring.

When you shoot the fish, the shaft pulls back out, the tip comes off of the adaptor and toggles on the far side of the fish or inside the fish, and the cable or Spectra pulls through the slide ring until it is fully extended, permitting the shaft to come back out so that it is not being used as a lever to enlarge the hole in the fish.

[stalker']

ah i see

do they fall off when you decend tho?

i can see how they attach now, just the photo of the one im buying didnt have the adapter tip included in the photo


cheers

[Bill McIntyre]

Originally Posted by stalker'

do they fall off when you decend tho?

They fall of if they are not restrained. Most people tuck the cable or Spectra under a band after the gun is cocked.

[stalker']

ah thanks for that