Teak speargun build out of scrap teak

[Kracker Jack]

After doing alot of spearfishing for tautog this year in dirty water of the chesapeake bay i decided my 70cm gun was just to big to shoot these fish in tight quarters. So i decided i was gonna research and then build my own teak reef gun. The total length of the gun is 30 inchs from butpad to muzzle. 34 overall with spearshaft included. I here are the pics of the process.

Laminating the blank with west systems


Blank being held true during lam process with 4 ft level and clamps


Drawing out buttpad,fitting handle and trigger gaurd


Tenons cut and handle fitted. Getting ready to set up the neptonic reef trigger mechanism.

Handle epoxied on barrel and trigger mech and pins in place with spearshaft fitted

Shaping up! Band pockets carved out,band holes drilled, handle shaped up.

Heres how she sits now. Kinda put this gun on hold so i can finish up the boat. Shes gonna be a sweet little gun. You notice the dowel plug in the side of the gun.....definitely made out of scrap!!!! Hahaha!!

[phatdaddy]

nice, your goiing to enjoy that. i always did better in close quarters with a poke pole. don't know if you've used a wooden gun before, but they float. i found out the hard way. laid one down th get a lobster out of a hole, turned around and it was gone. buddy on the boat saw it pop up and thought i was signaling him i was in trouble. i came up as he was trying to get his gear on to come get me.

looks good!!

[Kracker Jack]

Phat when i put the gun together completely i will then float test it in water and ballast the gun as needed to make it neutral bouyant as need buy drilling holes and adding lead and plug holes with dowels to hide lead plugs. Or else your right it will float. Alot of guys like negative bouyant. Im sure i wont get it perfect but i will try.

[ssiredfish]

Lookin good man!!

One thing I noticed though that scares the piss outta me is that separate handle. You may want to rethink a dowel through the back side of it where the two parts meet. If it ever separates that butt will come screamin back at ya. Thats how Sherri Day got that permanent beauty mark under her eye. Crushed her Ocular cavity in the process I believe as well...

[Kracker Jack]

Ssiredfish this gun is unlike a pipe gun (rail style) gun. This is a 2 piece gun barrel and handle. The handle is just to serve as ...well a handle. Everything else is a seperate entity. Meaning there no band pressure on handle like there would be on a rear handled pipe gun thst has the trigger mech built into the handle and then the handle pinned to the barrel. Hopefully im not being confusing. I would love to come down and spearfish with yall sometime i always enjoy watching yalls videos on youtube. We should have a triggerfish and mahi session popping up on video soon if my buddy ricky ever starts the editting.

[ssiredfish]

Originally Posted by Kracker Jack

Ssiredfish this gun is unlike a pipe gun (rail style) gun. This is a 2 piece gun barrel and handle. The handle is just to serve as ...well a handle. Everything else is a seperate entity. Meaning there no band pressure on handle like there would be on a rear handled pipe gun thst has the trigger mech built into the handle and then the handle pinned to the barrel. Hopefully im not being confusing. I would love to come down and spearfish with yall sometime i always enjoy watching yalls videos on youtube. We should have a triggerfish and mahi session popping up on video soon if my buddy ricky ever starts the editting.

I gotya, just lookin out for ya bro!!!

Man Id love to have you down, if you ever get an opening in May-June and you wanna come wrestle some Cobia with me dont hesitate to send me a pm!!