I have been using the Pathos Sniper Roller 95 for more than a year now and it's time to reassess it's performance. Overall I am happy with the gun and what I like most is it's performance (range and accuracy) in a relative small package. The minimal overhang of the spear keeps things compact and the fact that the flopper hangs on the muzzle is really nice too.
Loading is easy without the need for a load assist and it is also fairly light because you load in several stages. There are four fins on the shaft, one in the middle to rest and three at the back. If you want to load both bands as far back as possible you need to pull hard since the last fin is way back against your chest. I found this hard at first until the bands where broken in and became easier to load.
However the gun is not perfect out of the box. I never really liked the pull on the trigger and it is not light enough to be predictable, it has become worse over time. No worries since a new 'perfect trigger' will be available from Ermessub within a month or two, we should be able to just drop it in.
Then there is the roller head. The roller groove is eccentric which helps to avoid slippage (I think) but they do not roll on bearings. Rollers on a bearing run so much smoother and I am sure there is power lost here due to friction! I wish I could change the rollers but have not found a solution to do so without rebuilding the complete muzzle.
If you have any suggestions to upgrade the rollers and put them on bearings I would love to hear them!
The other day while doing maintenance I have noticed that the edge of the roller was slightly scratched/nicked and this causes significant friction against the muzzle. I imagine this happened while bumping into the reef.
Again this is easily remedied by cutting the burr off but it needs to be addressed because it certainly slows down the contraction speed of the bands, hence affecting performance.
Compared to the RA Tuna roller 110 of a friend of mine the band stretch is only 2cm shorter on the 95! FYI
I have also some places where the paint is coming of the barrel, more an aesthetic issue than anything else and I don't care about it at all but I wish they would have put on something better like the coating on the laser spearguns.
I would love to take this gun in the pool and run some tests but unfortunately I don't have acces to a pool that I can enter with a speargun.
Overall I think this is a good platform but could use some tinkering to make it perform to it's best potential.
Loading is easy without the need for a load assist and it is also fairly light because you load in several stages. There are four fins on the shaft, one in the middle to rest and three at the back. If you want to load both bands as far back as possible you need to pull hard since the last fin is way back against your chest. I found this hard at first until the bands where broken in and became easier to load.
However the gun is not perfect out of the box. I never really liked the pull on the trigger and it is not light enough to be predictable, it has become worse over time. No worries since a new 'perfect trigger' will be available from Ermessub within a month or two, we should be able to just drop it in.
Then there is the roller head. The roller groove is eccentric which helps to avoid slippage (I think) but they do not roll on bearings. Rollers on a bearing run so much smoother and I am sure there is power lost here due to friction! I wish I could change the rollers but have not found a solution to do so without rebuilding the complete muzzle.
If you have any suggestions to upgrade the rollers and put them on bearings I would love to hear them!
The other day while doing maintenance I have noticed that the edge of the roller was slightly scratched/nicked and this causes significant friction against the muzzle. I imagine this happened while bumping into the reef.
Again this is easily remedied by cutting the burr off but it needs to be addressed because it certainly slows down the contraction speed of the bands, hence affecting performance.
Compared to the RA Tuna roller 110 of a friend of mine the band stretch is only 2cm shorter on the 95! FYI
I have also some places where the paint is coming of the barrel, more an aesthetic issue than anything else and I don't care about it at all but I wish they would have put on something better like the coating on the laser spearguns.
I would love to take this gun in the pool and run some tests but unfortunately I don't have acces to a pool that I can enter with a speargun.
Overall I think this is a good platform but could use some tinkering to make it perform to it's best potential.
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