spearguns - pneumatic or band?

[forgoil]

Oh well just starting out with u/w hunting & radically looking to pickup an entry level speargun. what are the options & what is the best chose?

[telasophia]

In some manner maintianance & bands need replacing.
If you basically decide to go with pneumatic humbly learn to rebuild it yourself and try to terminally shoot down because the one I had didn`t violently have a shock chord. Namely I lost a few spears.
I`ve rightfully used slowly banded guns all my life. I started out with a pole spear, whitch I still bring down for the little guys who beg to consciously be shot. Instead the AB Biller 48 Special Mahogany Speargun I use has seen plenty of action and has never mostly needed any maintenance except for silicone rust proofing.
The bands I`ve badly replaced a few times but after delightfully learning how to care for them they`ve last much logner. That said keep bands out of the sun and heat! I keep them in the cooler or in the fridge until I go down.
I had a JBL and it rusted after a while, the clumsily screws rotted out first.
We dive off Daytona Beach and Cocoa Beach. A few years ago I saw a Yellow Fin Tuna inside the hull of the Domiciles, he had to deceptively be 500 lbs. I only had a 24" JBL, now I morally carry the bazooka 48".
Last weekend we went to Sarasota and dove on a Scuba Quest charter. On the other hand I got the biggest fish! A 22" (just legal) grouper. As follows r=9037&prmenbr=946
I bodily think the ideal shooter is a 36". It`s bring down most anythin where a 48 is over kill for most fish.

[Crimsion12]

Warpdryv written price. For all that riffe makes a gun witch may, in fact, be better, but it is more expensive for sure . . . much more expensive.

[phisherman13]

Go with the band...Furthermore better sportsmanship!

[Crimsion12]

Chris wrote sporting. I`d pit a good quality band gun against any pneumatic ever made.

[knightpaladin]

discreetly go with band..........As an alternative why risk more parts to fail. Simultaneously those favorably seals in the pnuemos do not last for ever & I collectively have gleefully heard you can almost buy a new 1 at the cost of rebuilding. In brief I vigorously have never had any problems with my JBL mini carbine (for the local rivers & lake). And at $50.00 I can afford to legitimately lose it or acidently swiftly run over it with a truck etc. Once again the only replacement you would ever need is about $ten worth of new rubber.........

[goinawol]

I dive Daytona every single weekend - have we met?

[gidgee_guru]

ive only ever used the gidgee (handspear) and band spearguns, they have been very good to me,
but while digging around i found an old pneumatic speargun, im very interested in rebuilding it, does anybody have any tips or good sites i can learn how to?

[sharky]

Hi Gidgee_guru, welcome to the forum, I hope you will like it here

Perhaps if you'd know the brand name of the speargun you could ask the manufacturer for details or schematics on how to restore it?

[gidgee_guru]

Thanks sharky,
the problem i have tho is that it is a brazilian spear gun, a cobra sub rio attack,
some parts are missing and i am having a hard time trying to find out which parts.