• Welcome to the DeeperBlue.com Forums, the largest online community dedicated to Freediving, Scuba Diving and Spearfishing. To gain full access to the DeeperBlue.com Forums you must register for a free account. As a registered member you will be able to:

    • Join over 44,280+ fellow diving enthusiasts from around the world on this forum
    • Participate in and browse from over 516,210+ posts.
    • Communicate privately with other divers from around the world.
    • Post your own photos or view from 7,441+ user submitted images.
    • All this and much more...

    You can gain access to all this absolutely free when you register for an account, so sign up today!

Roller gun, Rubber speargun, band speargun, arbalete

Thread Status: Hello , There was no answer in this thread for more than 60 days.
It can take a long time to get an up-to-date response or contact with relevant users.

chiarina

New Member
Oct 4, 2021
1
0
1
27
S.O.S! Hello everyone!
I am trying to understand what is the most common term in English to define an ARBALETE (in italian): a speargun that uses bands. I found roller gun, rubber speargun, band speargun, rubber-powered speargun, band-powered speargun.
I would like to know which one is the most natural to english native speakers.
Thank u.
 
just speargun may be pneumatic. speargun with rubber bands commonly means arbalete or rollergun
 
  • Like
Reactions: chiarina
I would say banded too. Because if this is a roller, it is always mentioned that we are talking about roller.
 
I guess it depends on locality, but in Southern California pneumatics are so rare that its not necessary to say "banded" in order to exclude them. So its "speargun" unless you mean "roller gun" unless you are talking about pneumatics, and then you should say so. In the last 25 years I've taken a lot of spearfishermen on my boat, and I've never seen a pneumatic. But then there are rear handled guns and mid handled guns and wood guns and carbon fiber guns and aluminum rail guns. So I think its a stretch to even try to come up with one term. Just say enough to describe the particular type of gun you are talking about.
 
Last edited:
DeeperBlue.com - The Worlds Largest Community Dedicated To Freediving, Scuba Diving and Spearfishing

ABOUT US

ISSN 1469-865X | Copyright © 1996 - 2024 deeperblue.net limited.

DeeperBlue.com is the World's Largest Community dedicated to Freediving, Scuba Diving, Ocean Advocacy and Diving Travel.

We've been dedicated to bringing you the freshest news, features and discussions from around the underwater world since 1996.

ADVERT