somebody call?
no kidding murat...:hmm
Anyway fuzz, you're right that the only way a hybrid, at least as far as I know and with my own, is going to make 20' is if I drop it down a 21' cliff. It's design is primarily to utilize the benefits of the euro and lumber styles. The euro stuff, (Ok, I can't help it, Jay...:girlie ) is great as far as being quick and easy to swing around owing to it's reduced cross section. The lumber guns give you great triggers and the mass to reduce the recoil from the heavy bands that you can load them with.
Even with all that, by combining the two you're still sacrificing. You could go all lumber and make that 20' with a bit of luck or you could go euro and have to stalk and pray...
My hybrid is a mix of Wong/AimRite and Icarus Design Solutions and by that mix I hope to have an edge with the quick and the stiffness of the titanium while having the bouyancy and mass in the ass of the gun of a Riffe. I'm in Santa Barbara now and spent a good portion of the afternoon yesterday ballasting and balancing a couple of guns, always a show for the strolling tourists, with me bent over the dock with a gun and some weights and tape...
My feeling is that the 42" and 50" sizes are a great length for the stuff here in So Cal and in the kelp, for the free swimming stuff. I've got to figure that having an additional 5 inches in the 55"er will be handy for the Keys and the Islands. I' trying to score 60" or so of titanium tube so I can complete my KK03 quiver. What I lack in experience with the area I hope to cover a bit with hardware and humility.
sven