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Topic: Need a north coast gun  (Read 1237 times)

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Sharkie

  • Salmon
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  • Location: Blue Lake, Ca
  • Date Registered: Dec 2012
  • Posts: 165
Hola divers, I am looking for a norther coast spear gun. Been diving Salt Point and north with a few 20 year old guns. Looking to update.  Checked out the Freedive shop in Sacramento, looks like they have...everything!. Thanks for any ideas, Ron


divenfish

  • Salmon
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  • Location: North Coast
  • Date Registered: Jan 2006
  • Posts: 850
You will find a wealth of information by using the search function. Search for "speargun" or "best speargun".
I believe the overwhelming majority of the divers on this forum would agree that a 75cm euro/rail gun is the way to go for NorCal spearing, if you were to have only one gun.
Overall a 60-80cm railgun/eurogun would do. On a rare occasions you wish you had that 90 for the fat blues hanging out at the edge of the school, but after all it's not the arrow it's the indian.
There are some divers out there, still on the dark side, preferring pneumatics (55 -70cm)...


KayakJames

  • Sea Lion
  • ****
  • Yes it is good
  • Location: hayward
  • Date Registered: Jan 2006
  • Posts: 1900
I use a double wrapped mako rail gun and never ha a problem with it.
Rob Allen rail guns are awesome too.
Where did he go george


Mienboy

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  • Sea Lion
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  • America, if you don't love it leave it
  • Location: Oakland-Pinole,ca
  • Date Registered: Jan 2012
  • Posts: 4016
I use a 70 hammerhead.I like the shorter gun cause I'm not in much open water.I'm also around the point arena area and I'm in kelp a lot

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My biggest worry is that my wife(when I'm dead)will sell my fishing gear for what I said I paid for it


pclark707

  • Sand Dab
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  • Location: Santa Rosa
  • Date Registered: May 2013
  • Posts: 14
I got a rob allen 70 and I love it.
Very easy to take apart and clean,
and its a very common gun so getting parts is easy.



caldiver

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  • Date Registered: Nov 2010
  • Posts: 16
I have an older 75 cm Picasso and love it.  I prefer a 6mm-6.5mm shaft over the thicker ones for norcal.  I also have a 90cm Rob Allen (which has a thicker shaft) and also I found that it was more gun than I needed and I only use it as a backup gun in socal. 

I prefer having a floatline over a reel up here because if I spot a ling or something else in a hole toward the end of my dive, I just drop my gun to mark the spot and follow my line down on the next drop.  For abalone, I prefer to do the same thing where I connect my ab iron to the floatline and use it to mark a spot.

Good luck, dive safe.


 

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