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Forum: All About Guns 03-19-2024, 12:15 AM
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Posted By popgun pete
Re: The Soviet version of the Cavalero Champion Arbalete

This is the R2 speargun, it has a white nylon socket head muzzle with two band strands and nylon rear ferrules to match with a wire wishbone. The trigger has been anodized as well as the barrel tube,...
Forum: All About Guns 03-18-2024, 07:42 PM
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Posted By popgun pete
Re: The Soviet version of the Cavalero Champion Arbalete

Close up images of the sear lever locking onto the shaft tail and the safety cam which is a pivoting eccentric used to immobilize the trigger after the gun is cocked to shoot. Note the quirky...
Forum: All About Guns 03-18-2024, 07:29 PM
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Posted By popgun pete
Re: The Soviet version of the Cavalero Champion Arbalete

The Soviet R handle is quite well made, although the design appears to have been mainly changed to avoid accusations of being a direct copy. The handle has been made wider to accommodate the line...
Forum: All About Guns 03-18-2024, 04:22 AM
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Posted By popgun pete
Re: The Soviet version of the Cavalero Champion Arbalete

This is the Mares Juni which appears to be based on a chopped down rear ended version of their Mares Bess spring gun handle, but with a new trigger mechanism similar to the French Champion Arbalete,...
Forum: All About Guns 03-18-2024, 02:32 AM
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Posted By popgun pete
Re: The Soviet version of the Cavalero Champion Arbalete

The internal layout is very similar, however there are detail changes in how the sear lever connects to the trigger and there is the line release lever/pin. I expect this feature was borrowed from...
Forum: All About Guns 03-17-2024, 07:43 PM
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Posted By popgun pete
The Soviet version of the Cavalero Champion Arbalete

After WWII spearfishing underwent a growth spurt in the fifties and sixties as more equipment became available, particularly with swim fins, masks and snorkels that previously did not exist in any...
Forum: General Spearfishing & Diving Discussion 03-07-2024, 08:18 PM
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Views: 364
Posted By popgun pete
Site certificate expiry

Getting an ongoing notice that the Spearboard certificate has expired and connection is advised against. Only by overriding that restriction have I been able to get on to post this. For a short...
Forum: Recipes Here! 02-06-2024, 03:06 PM
Replies: 8
Views: 68,567
Posted By popgun pete
Re: Carp Burgers?

The photo is just taken from post #4 reference, I have not tried them, but it looked interesting. A fish cake basically.
Forum: Recipes Here! 02-05-2024, 05:43 PM
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Views: 68,567
Posted By popgun pete
Re: Carp Burgers?

If you can't beat 'em you might as well eat 'em. A plague that displaces more worthwhile fish.
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Forum: All About Guns 01-16-2024, 02:05 AM
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Views: 4,239
Posted By popgun pete
Re: Inverter roller Spearguns extensive write up.

No such thing as terminal velocity, but there is an acceleration limit on shafts that are being tail driven unless the shaft is bound on all sides by being surrounded by a barrel tube. The shaft...
Forum: All About Guns 01-09-2024, 06:19 PM
Replies: 29
Views: 30,691
Posted By popgun pete
Re: Voit Swimaster Speargun

It is instructive to note that when Fred Biller made his changes to the Sea Hornet trigger mechanism he made a point of stating that the new sear lever was made of heat treated stainless steel to...
Forum: All About Guns 01-09-2024, 05:44 PM
Replies: 29
Views: 30,691
Posted By popgun pete
Re: Voit Swimaster Speargun

If we compare the wear on the nose of the JBL to the Voit Swimaster trigger it is obvious that the older gun has a much better contact with the sear lever which in turn lowers the contact pressure...
Forum: All About Guns 01-08-2024, 08:00 PM
Replies: 29
Views: 30,691
Posted By popgun pete
Re: Voit Swimaster Speargun

It is interesting to note that all the Voit triggers which I have had out of their respective clamshell handles are punched out from metal plate as on the right side you can see the curved edge as...
Forum: All About Guns 01-08-2024, 07:58 PM
Replies: 29
Views: 30,691
Posted By popgun pete
Re: Voit Swimaster Speargun

Here are the photos, any differences will be in the detail, if there are any.
https://forums.deeperblue.com/attachments/voit-rhs-cocked-r-jpg.59507/...
Forum: All About Guns 01-08-2024, 07:56 PM
Replies: 29
Views: 30,691
Posted By popgun pete
Re: Voit Swimaster Speargun

As a matter of interest I was sent parts of a Voit Swimaster Magnum by Ron Mullins when some POS stole the muzzle of the JBL Travel Combo, the short two band version of the muzzle. Now in recent...
Forum: All About Guns 01-06-2024, 01:50 AM
Replies: 111
Views: 39,675
Posted By popgun pete
Re: SEA HORNET Clone from CHINA!!

The last day or so the site was completely off air, at least from here and it was about 24 hours with nothing loading. Thought that it may have been undergoing a denial of service attack, these...
Forum: All About Guns 01-01-2024, 07:21 PM
Replies: 111
Views: 39,675
Posted By popgun pete
Re: SEA HORNET Clone from CHINA!!

Anyone noticed this website loads like treacle lately, a minor typo correction and it chugs around doing nothing for minutes before finally updating?
Forum: All About Guns 01-01-2024, 07:04 PM
Replies: 111
Views: 39,675
Posted By popgun pete
Re: SEA HORNET Clone from CHINA!!

I think the problem is that they don't have much experience with spearfishing as given the large Chinese population any wild food resources are already spoken for, to some extent that applies in...
Forum: All About Guns 12-29-2023, 11:20 PM
Replies: 111
Views: 39,675
Posted By popgun pete
Re: SEA HORNET Clone from CHINA!!

Yes Kevin, as seen here. The twin flopper tails need more of an outward bend though, the Chinese did not crimp them enough for the floppers to sit flat against the side of the speartip body and...
Forum: All About Guns 12-28-2023, 09:39 PM
Replies: 111
Views: 39,675
Posted By popgun pete
Re: SEA HORNET Clone from CHINA!!

Note that the vertical slotted shaft tail and the flopper retention cup restrained from sliding backwards by the cross pin behind it (Kevin's idea, supplied to the Chinese) allows the shooting line...
Forum: All About Guns 12-28-2023, 07:11 PM
Replies: 111
Views: 39,675
Posted By popgun pete
Re: SEA HORNET Clone from CHINA!!

Here is the Chinese clone with the blue "Shooter" sticker pulled off, it was already curling away on its periphery as water gradually got to the sticker adhesive, and the Gunslinger telescopic barrel...
Forum: All About Guns 12-28-2023, 06:55 PM
Replies: 111
Views: 39,675
Posted By popgun pete
Re: SEA HORNET Clone from CHINA!!

I swapped the safety wheel knob to the right hand side where it should be and changed it on the longer gun with a genuine red Sea Hornet knob rather than the weak brick red color used on the Chinese...
Forum: All About Guns 12-24-2023, 01:55 AM
Replies: 22
Views: 4,896
Posted By popgun pete
Re: Sigalsub nemesis handle

It looks like Alemanni think the Sigal-Sub handle is OK because they are now offering it on their website, or a very close replica....
Forum: All About Guns 12-21-2023, 01:59 PM
Replies: 94
Views: 25,522
Posted By popgun pete
Re: Rollergun Recoil and the Jerk (not the owner!)

As a quick primer for those who are not familiar with such things in physics these are the definitions. For distance x and time t we have the following.

Velocity v is the first differential with...
Forum: All About Guns 12-21-2023, 01:25 PM
Replies: 94
Views: 25,522
Posted By popgun pete
Re: Rollergun Recoil and the Jerk (not the owner!)

This is a diagram that I made for the basic rollergun energy diagrams thread, but it will serve here for the sake of explanation, If we ignore band soak, that is stretch a band, leave it and then the...
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