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More mamba mods!
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my fun this weekend was painting a faded Beuchat canvas bladder type float with flourecent orange paint for a comp. the coming weekend! Off topic BUT it worked! Paint those faded floats with Flourecent paint!
You are in a different league foxy!
You are in a different league foxy!
Nope it has been kept very quiet, maybe he is the only competitor and will anounce proudly on Monday that he is the winner rofl Sorry dude
to be honest i'm not expecting to do too well, no bicycling to work in the past 3 months, murky waters at the beach so not much diving, and a nasty reverse squeeze in my sinuses to boot... I'll be competing against guys who dive every other day and spearfish >20M....
I was competing in first division, but I think I'll start this year back in 2nd...
there: excuses out the way, I will report how I do on Monday.:martial:martialWISH ME LUCK!
Hi T2k, you dont give much info on your profile, where are you from?
If you have ever owned a mamba you may be one of the lucky ones who find they can shoot fish straight out of the box? If not you will understand how frustrating it is to own such a powerful gun & not be able to hit a barn door?
The main bulk of the design has been added to the rear of the gun - that wont really effect the maneuverability but it will make the gun more stable in the water?
If you stick around db long enough you will soon discover I will use any excuse to mod a gun - normally because I like to make them look good!
If you have ever owned a mamba you may be one of the lucky ones who find they can shoot fish straight out of the box? If not you will understand how frustrating it is to own such a powerful gun & not be able to hit a barn door?
The main bulk of the design has been added to the rear of the gun - that wont really effect the maneuverability but it will make the gun more stable in the water?
If you stick around db long enough you will soon discover I will use any excuse to mod a gun - normally because I like to make them look good!
So practising you breath holds to go deep then mate? Otherwise its just going to be bright red, but maybe the fish will think "whats that cool red thing?" and come closer for a look at the funky object! rofl
Does that poor test gun actually still work after all you've put it through?
Does that poor test gun actually still work after all you've put it through?
Red camo is cool. I didn't notice any adverse effects whatsoever when using mine. Apparently most fish aren't sensitive to red light so they will only see the shade given by it's colour temperature, very similar to kelp. So while the gun is bright red to us it is kelp coloured to fish. Proven? Well no but every test seems to bear that out.
Red is one of the first colours to be filtered out by light passing through water. Cut yourself at more than about 15 foot underwater and your blood flows green. Just an optical effect of the redlight being filtered out but looks soooooo weird. Finishing off big ray caught commercially on scuba in 100 foot I was always fasinated by the little puff of "black" blood from a knife to the brain.
I get a really strange effect with my orange SMB line. On the surface its bright and clearly visible but if you peer along it as it goes down in the water to an anchor weight or whatever it changes colour. In fact in 25 foot it goes mainly grey making it very hard to see.
Camera will not record any red much below 10 foot in UK waters without a flash. Would be interesting to take a natural light pic of a red cammo gun at say 15 foot deep.
Here endeth the physics lesson (I need to get out more)
Dave
I get a really strange effect with my orange SMB line. On the surface its bright and clearly visible but if you peer along it as it goes down in the water to an anchor weight or whatever it changes colour. In fact in 25 foot it goes mainly grey making it very hard to see.
Camera will not record any red much below 10 foot in UK waters without a flash. Would be interesting to take a natural light pic of a red cammo gun at say 15 foot deep.
Here endeth the physics lesson (I need to get out more
)Dave