Hello everyone;
So after trying out the rabitech guns at the hands of my buddies, I completly fell in love with them and decided to add it to my collection of spearguns (90cm Imersion concept, 100cm omer cayman HF, 110cm beuchat marlin, and 120cm riffe euro) so I went on yesterday and got a 140cm rabitech stealth carbon.
I initially intended to get the rabitech apex carbon, but the longest one they had here was a 110cm and what I was looking for was more of a blue water gun, as my 120cm euro riffe seemed inadequate in certain situations. I will use this gun mainly when hunting in blue water where we can get visibility of 20m+ and big pelagic fish such as giant king mackerels (40kg+), baracudas 2m+, and amberjacks (50kg+) !!!! YES we get those in the territorial water of qatar, in addition to a 5m tiger shark I swam with 2weeks ago !!!!!
Anyway, initially the gun came with the standard closed muzzle, but I changed it to the open muzzle (same head piece that comes with the apex). I had to do some work in order to fit the muzzle piece, as the open muzzle piece was approx. 1mm larger to fit into the barrel so I had to sand paper it, I also had to drill 1 hole in order to fit the pin that will hold the muzzle piece into the barrel. The main reason I changed to open muzzle is because I am used to open muzzle with all my other guns, and also I will be initially intending to use the gun with twin 16mm rubbers.
Now sorry for the long introduction, but I have couple of questions in head
1- I have read from other threads here on DB and other forums about all sort of stretching length ratios for 16mm bands etc..., but what would be the best optimum power length for twin 16mm bands on my gun keeping in mind that I am using a 7.0mm shaft and not 7.5 or 8mm (those also were unavailable)!!!! and Btw I am pretty muscular so short bands aren't much of an issue... But i am looking for a setup that will give me optimum power ratio but without causing considerable loss of accuracy and woobling, and keeping in minds that most shoots will be taken at a distance of a minimum of 5 or 6m !
2- Is the single pin to hold up the head muzzle piece into the barrel adequate enough for the rabitech stealth? As this muzzle piece that is originally intended for the Apex is supposed to be held in place with 2 pins that run horizontally on the lateral side (versus a single pin that runs vertically on the median bottom side to hold up the muzzle piece of the stealth).
3- Reel vs float? I have always used reels and only use floats to tie the gun up, keep an extra gun, and keep fish on... I bought the gun with the rabitech reel and with 70m of 300lbs dyneema line. The reason why I would rather use reel is that I will be spearfishing around oil rigs (and in some places depth is 100m+ and I only free dive up to 30-35m max depth) and dnt want to risk the gun to be lost and deeply tangled around the oil rig pipes where its impossible to retrieve it... whereas with reel, I can always resort to the last final option of sacrificing reel line by cutting it if I feel its impossible to retrieve the fish as there is too much line tangling.... Or instead, what I was thinking of doing is using both reel and float line; that is with a float lagging 30m behind the gun (for safety just in case I get to shoot a large fish that takes all my reel line and start dragging me down; which happened many times!!!
Also I am planning within the next few weeks to get a 120cm Rob Allen carbon to use mostly in reefs (15 to 20m deep) in clear water conditions Any word on this gun?
Finally sorry for the many questions and the long thread !
Thanx all in advance blackeye:blackeye
So after trying out the rabitech guns at the hands of my buddies, I completly fell in love with them and decided to add it to my collection of spearguns (90cm Imersion concept, 100cm omer cayman HF, 110cm beuchat marlin, and 120cm riffe euro) so I went on yesterday and got a 140cm rabitech stealth carbon.
I initially intended to get the rabitech apex carbon, but the longest one they had here was a 110cm and what I was looking for was more of a blue water gun, as my 120cm euro riffe seemed inadequate in certain situations. I will use this gun mainly when hunting in blue water where we can get visibility of 20m+ and big pelagic fish such as giant king mackerels (40kg+), baracudas 2m+, and amberjacks (50kg+) !!!! YES we get those in the territorial water of qatar, in addition to a 5m tiger shark I swam with 2weeks ago
Anyway, initially the gun came with the standard closed muzzle, but I changed it to the open muzzle (same head piece that comes with the apex). I had to do some work in order to fit the muzzle piece, as the open muzzle piece was approx. 1mm larger to fit into the barrel so I had to sand paper it, I also had to drill 1 hole in order to fit the pin that will hold the muzzle piece into the barrel. The main reason I changed to open muzzle is because I am used to open muzzle with all my other guns, and also I will be initially intending to use the gun with twin 16mm rubbers.
Now sorry for the long introduction, but I have couple of questions in head
1- I have read from other threads here on DB and other forums about all sort of stretching length ratios for 16mm bands etc..., but what would be the best optimum power length for twin 16mm bands on my gun keeping in mind that I am using a 7.0mm shaft and not 7.5 or 8mm (those also were unavailable)!!!! and Btw I am pretty muscular so short bands aren't much of an issue... But i am looking for a setup that will give me optimum power ratio but without causing considerable loss of accuracy and woobling, and keeping in minds that most shoots will be taken at a distance of a minimum of 5 or 6m !
2- Is the single pin to hold up the head muzzle piece into the barrel adequate enough for the rabitech stealth? As this muzzle piece that is originally intended for the Apex is supposed to be held in place with 2 pins that run horizontally on the lateral side (versus a single pin that runs vertically on the median bottom side to hold up the muzzle piece of the stealth).
3- Reel vs float? I have always used reels and only use floats to tie the gun up, keep an extra gun, and keep fish on... I bought the gun with the rabitech reel and with 70m of 300lbs dyneema line. The reason why I would rather use reel is that I will be spearfishing around oil rigs (and in some places depth is 100m+ and I only free dive up to 30-35m max depth) and dnt want to risk the gun to be lost and deeply tangled around the oil rig pipes where its impossible to retrieve it... whereas with reel, I can always resort to the last final option of sacrificing reel line by cutting it if I feel its impossible to retrieve the fish as there is too much line tangling.... Or instead, what I was thinking of doing is using both reel and float line; that is with a float lagging 30m behind the gun (for safety just in case I get to shoot a large fish that takes all my reel line and start dragging me down; which happened many times!!!
Also I am planning within the next few weeks to get a 120cm Rob Allen carbon to use mostly in reefs (15 to 20m deep) in clear water conditions
Finally sorry for the many questions and the long thread !
Thanx all in advance
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