Cave gun setup

[SeanButler]

Hello

I have recently picked up a nice assortment of heads to mount to my seac sting 75 band gun and i was wondering what head would be wize to use for cave and general 1-2 meter shots on small fish (around 30 cm long and most)

Also see the attached photo to see the heads

 

[foxfish]

Depends on what you intend to shoot?

 

[SeanButler]

I intend to shoot stuff like western rock blackfish and morwong and the odd silver trevally

 

[Mr. X]

I use a regular spear for everything so cannot say. Maybe the trident - although being plastic you might break it if you miss (I think spearodave suggested all metal multi-point spears for that reason). Alternatively perhaps the paralyzer tip at the bottom, being all metal?

Try them out & let us know how you get on.

 

[SeanButler]

Will do.

 

[CCspearo]

I would go for the pranger/clusterhead (the bottom one) spears with floppers often get caught in caves and the wide profile on the trident is liable to catch more rocks than fish. I use a 60cm rollergun with a 5 barb pranger for my cave gun. The spear has no overhang at the front so that it can get into tight places. I find the shorter spear is less prone to bending when shooting those powerful rockblackfish/drummer. A 3kg specimen almost turned the spear from my 80cm gun into a pretzel.

this is my cave gun. even though it looks small, because of the roller setup it has the same power as a 90cm conventional gun on the highest power setting and it is equal to a 80cm gun if the rubber is preloaded to the first pin on the underside of the gun. I use 1mm dyneema (180kg breaking strain)shooting line 2 wraps is plenty for cave shooting. I hope this helps.

 

[SeanButler]

Haha wow what brand is that gun and also i have another question about where can I get some decent pranger heads because whenever I buy the land and sea ones from the dive store there issually buggered after a single use and always rust in my dive bag in about an hour?

Cheers

 

[CCspearo]

the trigger mechanism and handle is from a old seahornet gun I picked up at a garage sale all the rest is made by me. I like the seahornet setup because the shooting line goes underneath and keeps away from the rollers. I turned up the rollers from acetal bought on the net on an old drill press i converted to a lathe. The stock is a piece of meranti I had laying around the garage. the metal for the rollerhead was scrounged from a piece of stainless pipe and some 4.8mm stainless rod I bought. I bought a length 8mm stainless round bar for making spears and axles for the rollers.I make my own prangers out of stainless mainly because the shop bought ones don't last long. here is a link to my pranger making exploits. https://forums.deeperblue.com/threads/3-barb-cluster-head-has-anyone-used-one.104031/#post-952732 you need a welder and quite few other tools ie angle grinder, drill press, taps and dies and maybe a dremmel tool if you want to do this sort of work.