New Seatec Gabbiano 2009!

The history of the Seatec factory is pretty amazing, and if you're curious I'll tell you some bits.
The first relevant thing to notice is the location, in the northern italian Province of Brescia. That's the historical firearms district, where some of the most prestigious firearm factories are located, some of which have been there for 5 centuries: Beretta, Perazzi, Bernardelli, Tanfoglio, Breda, Franchi, Gamba and countless others.
For those who don't know much of the firearms scene, just one hint: at the last 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, fifteen medals (15 Olympic medals) in the various shooting sports have been won by shooters using guns made in the Brescia district (Perazzi, Beretta and Gamba in the order). This says it all.

How does Seatec relate to this reality? Seatec factory employs people who have been in the firearm crafting for generations. And even now that thay make spearguns, they're still the same poeple who have been crafting some of the world's best firearms for centuries.

The current Seatec's chief engineer, Valerio Grassi, has put it clear: "our spearguns are real weapons, not toys".

He himself used to be a contractor for Beretta, making triggers and other stainless steel microfusion gunparts for Beretta rifles in Grassi's family small factory, named Officine Meccaniche Rezzato (O.Me.R.).

Being an avid spearo too, Grassi started making his own custom spearguns in the early 60's, by modifying the bulky Beuchat's available at that time (who looked like JBL's: thick spears, feeble bands and rocky triggers). Initially it was only a hobby, while making firearms parts remained the core bussiness. But then Grassi's first custom modified spearguns were so much better than the standards, that he decided to make a business of it: he founded a new branch of his Omer factory, named Omersub.
Yes, it was the actual Omer: the current designer of Seatec guns used to be the founder and owner of Omer.
In a relatively short time, Omer spearfishing gear became a world wide success between the 70's and the 80's. It is said that at one point the small factory was no more capable to manage such a bigworld wide success, to the extent that, in the 90's, Valerio Grassi sold Omer to a big conglomerate, the Beta group.

Grassi's "unemployment", though, lasted only a couple of years. At sudden he founded a new society together with the Marcelli brothers, owners of a small metal craft factory near Brescia (they had been making shafts/spears for Omer in the previous years), and with another ex Omer employee, who had started his own business with a patent for polyurethane coated alluminum tubes (the actual Gabbiano barrels). That's Seatec.

Started from nothing, just from the skills of a few small craftsmen, Seatec is now slowly gaining positions in the spearfishing gear market.
And here the music starts: "Pump and circumstance". paaaa pa pa pa paaa paaa :friday

Milkman, the Trb open muzzle is the same I use and it's okay with sharkfin shafts.
But note well that the Trb muzzle is ONLY for screw-in bands, not circular.
The muzzle that works with loop (circular) bands is the Snake muzzle.
In facts, the Snake is the same gun as the Gabbiano Trb, with the only difference in the muzzle: the Snake an open muzzle with holes for loop bands, while the Gabbiano Trb (open or closed) mounts the Trb articulated muzzle for screw-in bands only.