Targets for spearguns?

[Hypersquid1]

hi everyone,
i was just thinking about how to make a target for a speargun... has anybody ever done this? is it even possible? im talking about a target that goes about a foot down in the water, not one on land. any feedback would be great. thanks a lot,

hypersquid1

 

[Alison]

rofl are you spying on me? rofl
erm! Funilly enough we were doing something along just those lines a short while ago!
We used a foam swimming pool float (not polystyrene) with a weight tied to it so that it would sink, painted a cross on it and shot away.
If you read back through the forums I seem to remember someone saying they used some plastic mesh, that would work to I think, it wouldnt leave a hole but you could see how far out you where by where the shooting line went through

 

[icarus pacific]

Speargun targets? I dunno... fish always worked for me. :thankyou

Find a scrap of the plastic netting used around the construction sites to warn off the passersby. Tie it to a piece of string and a rock, boom done and cheap. If you want to get faaaancy :girlie attach the netting to a wood frame and fire away.

The netting won't get all buggered up like a solid float, it's easy to paint or weave an outline of a fish on, it floats and the spear is easy to retrieve.

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[AB Diver]

Well I just tie a baloon to a peice of string and then a rock. Throw it over board and shoot away. It is pretty simple other than you have to dive down to get the string/ballon peice after all is said and done. But hey that makes good practice anyway so its a no loose situation. Not to mention ya don't have a target to store and baloons are cheap. Just don't get the big baloons (too easy to hit) then it makes a lot of work of the cleanup later.

 

[Murat]

sand filled small water bottle.

 

[Chad Carney]

Aluminum cans.
On the bottom at first, then pick them up and drop them for motion shots.
Good for multiple shots.

Chad

 

[Hypersquid1]

ok thanks for the support!!! i have some ideas about how to make a target so i might show some pix on here... any other feedback would be great!

 

[fuzz]

Check these threads out:

[ame="http://forums.deeperblue.net/showthread.php?t=42865"]Practice targets underwater?[/ame]
[ame="http://forums.deeperblue.net/showthread.php?t=42951"]Target Practice[/ame]


For shot evaluation, use construction netting. For fun, use foam/cans/plastic bottles/etc.

Here's a few pictures I took in my pool of our target-shooting sessions a couple years ago:
http://pokesquid.com/gallery/pool/index.htm