Spring loaded spearguns - Page 2

Josediaz · 02-18-2012, 07:32 PM

Spearguns amazing

popgun pete · 02-19-2012, 03:29 PM

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Originally Posted by popgun pete

The details are locked up in my old computer, but the guy listed it at a starting price of $14,000! I sent him a message about what it was (he never had a clue how it worked) and told him that he was out by a factor of seven, even at the most optimistic price. He relisted around ten grand, then gave up and we never saw it again. I wondered how he came by it, where were the receipts and instructions? Had it been acquired by honest means or was it liberated from some old-timer without permission? I guess that we will never know. Pay that sort of price and you want provenance, not something from "Midnight Supplies".

Out of curiosity I searched on "Siama Roma" and found another one here COOL OLD GUNS - Page 2 - Spearfishing Planet

This gun is assembled, so you can more easily see how the parts in the timber box go together. "Brevette" means patent, not brand, as the poster has suggested there.

LunkerBuster · 02-19-2012, 05:45 PM

That is cool info Phil. I was thinking that tension springs are a lot more dangerous too

Sadot · 02-20-2012, 02:37 AM

Well, thanks very much

I always wonder, how these spearguns work/performe, here in the main Acapulco Avenue the "costera" in more or less in the center of the bay is a statue of a local "hero" he was a national swiming champion an he command the navy dive guys "comando submarino" in the early days of Acapulco.

The statue has a speargun like the one posted by MARCO the cressi, in one hand, a pair of fins open heals in the other and a mask in the forehead, he die in the rescue atempt of the bodies of a couple that were kidnaped, that in theory were in a place that has 50 to 60 mts. like 164 / 196 ft. of depht.

popgun pete · 02-25-2012, 05:34 PM

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Originally Posted by Sadot

Well, thanks very much

I always wonder, how these spearguns wok/performe, here in the main Acapulco Avenue the "costera" in more or less in the center of the bay is a statue of a local "hero" he was a national swiming champion an he command the navy dive guys "comando submarino" in the early days of Acapulco.

The statue has a speargun like the one posted by MARCO the cressi, in one hand, a pait of fins open heals in the other and a mask in the forehead, he die in the rescue atempt of the bodies of a couple that were kidnaped, that in theory were in a place that has 50 to 60 mts. like 164 / 196 ft. of depht.

The spring guns must have been reasonably effective weapons as Cressi-sub built a range of different models for different jobs. There were varying lengths and diameters of barrels and the power of the propulsion springs also varied. Some shot tubular steel shafts and others had aluminium shafts for higher velocity shots at more rapidly moving fish. The "Saetta" was for hunting around reefs and had a slightly pre-compressed spring even before you loaded the gun. Most guns had springs that were "loose" in the barrel as they just sat with their front ends at the entrance to the muzzle after the shot.