Sights on pneumatic spearguns

[Marulken]

Hi

My bakgrund as Hunter and Sports shooter makes the lack of sights on spearguns in general make it a challenge for me!
In fact I see there are some who make their own sights on the guns.

Iron sights like the one on the pic works extremly well on land. Does anybody know the reason why there is no sights on pneumatic spearguns?

 

[popgun pete]

Speargun shooting is mainly “point and shoot” once you get your eye in which means you know the spear flight trajectory and can in a sense see it in your mind’s eye as a fish crosses into the flight path. However sniper shots at sitters and target shooting guns for underwater marksmanship contests do use sights, although these are often add-on’s. Pneumatic guns often have a front sight and sometimes a bump or groove in the rear handle to align with it, but many people just use the tank silhouette to line up their shot and at times “seeing” through the back of the guns works as you obscure the target with the circular rear end of the gun. Using this latter technique I have drilled many sitter’s right between the eyes, or slightly rearwards and straight through their brain.

Recently speargun sights have been discussed here: https://forums.deeperblue.com/threads/fiber-optic-sights-for-pneumatic-speargun.106583/

 

[Marulken]

I have read the fiber optics sights thread.

I think the major problem with aim with out sights is that the Brain and Eye needs to learn a sights picture that is a bit not clear and hard to make consisten shoots with a tipical Iron sights as soon as you know how it work you do can easy take aim.
And se of you are off or Not.

And the other thing is aim att moving target with proper sights you align them and ad your lead. This is more easy with good sights then without.

I think that the longshots would do better with good sights then just the barrel to aim with.

But I wounder why the industry dont make sights?

 

[popgun pete]

Spearguns are long if you are shooting any distance and the guns therefore have a long sight radius. I have been shooting them for 40 years, so I think I know what I am talking about. Fancy sights could get knocked around, so hunting weapons don't have much in the way of sights, but competition target spearguns do and for those you need to look at the Eastern Bloc countries. Even there they have different categories for weapons that have simple sights and some that have very elaborate sights. The glow sights we discussed on the other thread are for the occasional sniper shot. Most spearfishing involves convergent line shooting for which you do not even have to look along the gun.

 

[popgun pete]

A hunting gun that does have optional sights is the Russian "Neptune", however getting one out of Russia is nigh impossible and I have tried 3 times over the years to buy one. The elevating sight is in the mid-handle, but for long range shooting a rear handle gun is best.

 

[Marulken]

Do you have a link for the neptune?

 

[popgun pete]

There is an entire thread on the "Neptune" here: https://forums.deeperblue.com/threads/russian-neptune-speargun.101352/