Woody or Alu gun

[DANger-is]

I'm about to start making a woody for my first gun. it'll have a 1 meter enclosed track with a 7mm 1.4 meter spear. I'm planning on loading it up with 2 x 18mm slings. Total cost will be about $250-$300.

Just wondering what people prefer - a gun like the Caymer or Cressi Mohawk or a custom homemade gun like the one I've described.

Keen to hear your thoughts.

 

[foxfish]

This is not an easy question to answer, you can successfully shoot & cleanly kill fish with a pole spear that cost very little but requires a lot of skill to use.

Commercially made guns from reputable company's will do the same job but require less skill as you dont need to get so close to the fish.

However a custom made, high mass enclosed track gun is like a sniper tool - perfectly balanced, accurate, long range but slightly ungainly compared to a lightweight cylindrical alloy gun.

Hardly any spearos I know own one gun! most have at least two & many own 5 or more.

I build guns because I enjoy building them, I own stupid amounts of guns but for 90% of the time I use a 90cm dry barrel airgun because that is the gun that suits my style of hunting.

If you intend to do any blue water hunting for big pelagics then build a gun to match your targets, if you are going to hunt shallow water reef fish then a single band 100 will be fine if you want something in between then build it to suit.

You can build a woody for a lot less money if you really wanted too.