Popgun Pete Intro
I received an invite to come here a few days ago. Anyway I began spearfishing when I was about nineteen after years of just snorkeling around. I started off with a handspear and used it for many years, but soon got into guns. My interstate dive buddy made me a band gun, I met him out on a reef and we have been friends ever since, that was about forty years ago. We teamed up each year to go spearfishing in his home state, New South Wales in Australia, a great place to shoot fish of all shapes and sizes. I live in Melbourne, Victoria, but know quite a few divers in the States (California) and have kept in touch with the US scene over the years thanks to the Internet. I made a study of all speargun types about 10 years ago by reading all the US and foreign language speargun patents, particularly the French ones as in the early days that was where the action was at. I was going to write a book, but thought of all the remainder copies after selling a handful, so I decided to put some of it up on the web in various forums like this one.
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