pneumatic or rubberband spearguns???

[alexanderXP]

Is a SEAC SUB ASSO 130 strong or not??


and acctualy are pneumatic stronger than lets say a 100cm speargun with 16 mm rubber???



Which have a longer range???rubber or pneumatic??

 

[Gazz]

I have a Seac Sub Asso 115. it is very powerful.

I have compared it(when it was standard) to a Rob Allen 100cm spear gun,(The Asso 115 is the same length as the 100cm Gun) and it had faster spear speed, longer range, and definatly more power.

I have now put a mamba kit on it and it is much more powerful.

the Asso 130 is a very big gun, what will you use it for?

 

[miles]

Hiya

Size for size, the pneumatic gun will be more powerful than a single band euro type gun. How-ever, fitting another band to your euro-gun, will level the playing field.

I'm not able to say how a mamba kitted air-gun would compare to a double banded euro type gun. Maybe Foxfish can shed some light!!

Regards
miles

 

[JPPLAY]

Just on a side note remember pneumatic has more moving parts so if you can't get replacement parts easy or can't carry spares parts go with bands. Remember rubberband guns are build on the KISS principle: Keep it Simple Stupid.

 

[Amphibious]

Just on a side note remember pneumatic has more moving parts so if you can't get replacement parts easy or can't carry spares parts go with bands. Remember rubberband guns are build on the KISS principle: Keep it Simple Stupid.

+2


The Young Grasshopper is learning! oh it makes me all warm and fuzzy inside

 

[GreekDiver]

Just on a side note remember pneumatic has more moving parts so if you can't get replacement parts easy or can't carry spares parts go with bands. Remember rubberband guns are build on the KISS principle: Keep it Simple Stupid.

Ive shot thousands of pounds of fish on my Cyrano. They don't break down often. All they need is new orings every so many years. How many slings do you replace?

I live in south Florida now and I'm looking to get a long airgun around 110-130cm. I was using my airguns ( Cyrano 700 & 850 ) in Virginia beach and i was shooting sheepshead, cobia, spanish mackeral, tautog and flounder. Those airguns where perfect for the diving conditions i was diving. PERFECT! You couldn't get anything better. They had plenty of power and loaded quick as hell. The vis is usually about 4-10ft and most of the diving is along the Chesapeake bay bridge tunnel around pilings.

 

[spaghetti]

Yes, a 130 pneumatic is a very powerul gun, more than a 100 bandgun with 16mm band. But it's a gun I would pick ONLY to shoot big fish in open water. So, if you like it and gonna hunt big AJ's or wahoos or other tropical giant fish, I say yes-yes. But for mullet and sargo on reef it's a no-no.
(about mainteinace of pneumatics, on my Mares I never needed any kind of servicing or spare parts replacing in 13 years of hard duty...For sure some of these days I should give a look to the o-rings, but by now they're still the original ones since 1993...)

 

[Fondueset]

I hunted with a pneumatic for several years when I was a kid. The gun was at least 5 years old when I got it and had, if anything, been thoroughly abused with zero maintenance. Depending on the trigger mech pneumos have maybe one more moving part.

They still freak me out, however. And I don't own any

 

[foxfish]

The mamba conversion kit uses additional O rings to seal the spear into the barrel. I have replaced mine once this season, took about 30 seconds.

 

[freediver7]

What the f**** now I figure out that pneumatic are stronger or as strong as band guns. I gave away all my found the pneumatics’. I recently heard of some Russians shooting 30-40 lb yellow tail with medium sized pneumatics in Mexico.

 

[jimqpublic]

...I recently heard of some Russians shooting 30-40 lb yellow tail with medium sized pneumatics in Mexico.

Maybe it's just Baja, but my understanding is that the law there allows spearfishing only freediving (not SCUBA) and only with band guns or polespears, not pneumatic. Supposedly Jay Riffe lobbied them to allow band powered spearguns instead of banning all spearguns.

Just the rumors I've heard.

 

[Shadowkiller]

Quite right Jim,

in fact the ban on multiple rubber guns (the way the law was written you could only use a single band) led to the development of roller guns!