Making Your Speargun Shoot Further
Posted on April 4, 2011 | No Comments
Kyle Inglarda asked:
Most people start out with a speargun that can shoot a few meters, and that will go through fish up to around the 8kg mark (from a reasonable distance). As they learn and progress the desire to make their gun fire further and faster becomes more and more attractive, and eventually they decide to do something about it. The one thing limiting how far your gun shoots is the line that is attached to the spear. Most guns are able to take more than one wrap of this line around the gun, so you simple get rid of the old line and replace it with an extra ‘wrap’ around the gun. In most cases this will give you an extra 2 meters as a minimum.
Be aware that this makes it much more awkward for diving in shallow water, but if you want to shoot further then this really isn’t an issue. The next point is that by adding extra line you need your gun to shoot that whole distance. Having the extra length is a waste of time if your spear doesn’t have the momentum to travel through a fish. There is nothing worse than shooting a fish in a good location, only to see that the spear bounces off it or with a few thrashes the fish is off!
To ensure that your spear shoots further you can either add more rubbers, or increase the thickness of the rubbers that are on the gun. Most guns are designed for one size rubber and a set number of places that you can put a spear, so take that into account when you get the gun. I have found with two rubbers that are 16mm in diameter, and about 6 meters of line you can get most fish. Of course, you can always go bigger if you want, and many people do for Blue Water hunting.
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Most people start out with a speargun that can shoot a few meters, and that will go through fish up to around the 8kg mark (from a reasonable distance). As they learn and progress the desire to make their gun fire further and faster becomes more and more attractive, and eventually they decide to do something about it. The one thing limiting how far your gun shoots is the line that is attached to the spear. Most guns are able to take more than one wrap of this line around the gun, so you simple get rid of the old line and replace it with an extra ‘wrap’ around the gun. In most cases this will give you an extra 2 meters as a minimum.
Be aware that this makes it much more awkward for diving in shallow water, but if you want to shoot further then this really isn’t an issue. The next point is that by adding extra line you need your gun to shoot that whole distance. Having the extra length is a waste of time if your spear doesn’t have the momentum to travel through a fish. There is nothing worse than shooting a fish in a good location, only to see that the spear bounces off it or with a few thrashes the fish is off!
To ensure that your spear shoots further you can either add more rubbers, or increase the thickness of the rubbers that are on the gun. Most guns are designed for one size rubber and a set number of places that you can put a spear, so take that into account when you get the gun. I have found with two rubbers that are 16mm in diameter, and about 6 meters of line you can get most fish. Of course, you can always go bigger if you want, and many people do for Blue Water hunting.
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