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Another positive review - this from spearboard. Only bad I found there was a bit about the line snapping - fixable by riggage.
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Hello friends,
I ‘ve got airbalete 100 5 days ago, I will stop using band guns J.
Loading is so easy , that I loaded the gun twice without loader .
Power with stock pressure very good , the spear pull the monofil (which is 2 wraps about 3.60 m ) and bounce back for about 1 m making my monofil ( 1.4 mm) like bungee.
About accuracy , I am hunting in Black Sea where visibility is usually 2-8 meters and fish are 0.3 to 2 kgs ( usually hunting 0.3 to 1 kg) , I found it very good but I still have to make some test because the fish I shot was in bad visibility.
Here is a photo J
I ‘ve got airbalete 100 5 days ago, I will stop using band guns J.
Loading is so easy , that I loaded the gun twice without loader .
Power with stock pressure very good , the spear pull the monofil (which is 2 wraps about 3.60 m ) and bounce back for about 1 m making my monofil ( 1.4 mm) like bungee.
About accuracy , I am hunting in Black Sea where visibility is usually 2-8 meters and fish are 0.3 to 2 kgs ( usually hunting 0.3 to 1 kg) , I found it very good but I still have to make some test because the fish I shot was in bad visibility.
Here is a photo J
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I was just looking at the video again. Don't you think there is too much air bubbles after the shoot? What could that mean? Or the gun was loaded out of the water or it loses the air?
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You did not see the bubles because Taimen comes with Mamba kit built in. I personaly know people that shoot this gun.
Check out this failure of a "Cayman" handle on an Omer band gun! Similar handle on the "Airbalete"!
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Scary, but it does not mean much to me, honestly speaking.
I'd hate that to happen to my gun. But come on, they've really sold thousands and thousands of Cayman bandguns. So far it's only one case like that on many thousands, and we don't know how the gun had been treated or mistreated before snapping that way.
And anyway....
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If you read my comments on that post then you will see that I agree with you, however I would like to know why this handle has broken, especially as the dimensions of the rear grip to stock attachment are very reduced in the area above the trigger making the trigger finger guard more of a load bearing element than it would be in a conventional handgrip. The "Airbalete" seems to have a bit more thickness above the trigger than the "Cayman" does, so should be stronger, but if there really is a potential weak spot here then I would like to know about it.
Well, the gun is assumed to be in good condition going into the bag. Damaged coming out of the bag. It never suffered impact? I am not buying that. Maybe he does not know of any impact, or does not recall it. It would take quite a smack to break that in such a way. Especially with the shaft in place. My guess, it was on the boat and someone jumped in and the loading pad/grip was on something with no support under the center section of the gun.
Just my untrained opinion, but I don't think it was a defect. It would not magically break in the bag without significant impact.
Just my untrained opinion, but I don't think it was a defect. It would not magically break in the bag without significant impact.
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Pete of course I was not advocating Omer (I have no interest), and indeed that part of the Cayman/Airbalete handle looks very thin.
But, again, I personally don't think that Cayman accident reported above to be much relevant, as it's just one on thousands. That's what I only meant to say.
There are many comments from Airbalete users on italian forums, and nobody has yet reported about structural failures or about a sense of fragility. Nothing of that so far. What some people have been complaining is that the Airbalete feels muzzle heavy in their impression, some guys said they expected it to track (swing) better, some guys said they expected it to shoot more powerful shots. But nothing got reportedly broken so far, not that I've come to know.
It's about time that someone of Deeperblue buy the Airbalete now (!!!) so we can chat about our own first hand impressions......
But, again, I personally don't think that Cayman accident reported above to be much relevant, as it's just one on thousands. That's what I only meant to say.
There are many comments from Airbalete users on italian forums, and nobody has yet reported about structural failures or about a sense of fragility. Nothing of that so far. What some people have been complaining is that the Airbalete feels muzzle heavy in their impression, some guys said they expected it to track (swing) better, some guys said they expected it to shoot more powerful shots. But nothing got reportedly broken so far, not that I've come to know.
It's about time that someone of Deeperblue buy the Airbalete now (!!!) so we can chat about our own first hand impressions......
I was going to get one except for two problems:
A: I don't hardly never spearfish.
B: I gotta use the money to go to the Bahamas and take Will Trubridge's master class.
I've handled caymans though - either that one got stomped but good or there was a defect.
A: I don't hardly never spearfish.
B: I gotta use the money to go to the Bahamas and take Will Trubridge's master class.
I've handled caymans though - either that one got stomped but good or there was a defect.
I don't see where is the problem:
A: we, the people, we don't buy new spearguns for spearfishing (we have the old ones for that). We buy new spearguns for intellectual curiosity.
B: Bahamas are posh.
Just my 2 cents.