Spear Guns for Home Defense?
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- Home defense is important for many people. Those who live in the US have the advantage that they can easily obtain firearms for the purpose, but in most other countries that is a not an option, due to strict weapon laws.
Spear guns are usually seen as a sports instrument rather than a weapon, and therefore they are legal even in some of the most restrictive countries. Well, what can kill a fish can probably also be effective against human intruders - so spear guns might be a viable option for self defense.
This video is a (non sponsored) review about two different models, both about 50 cm long. Both are made by Cressi, one of the leading manufacturers. One model is powered by rubber, the other one by compressed air.
How will these devices perform against an archery mat and ballistic gelatin? What is the effective range? Can they be "souped up" for more power?
This video has the answers.
A "The Slingshot Channel" production.
It's funny that people often claim that Jeorg isn't very safe with his tests, but the dude doubles up on the rubbers every time!
+John Dough lol
John Dough He is very safe, he has his safety t-shirt
After 9:00 min i just GOT the joke...😂
Condom . . .?
😂🤣😂🤣😂😜
Due to shortage of Ammo, THERE WILL BE NO WARNING SHOT!
Sorry for the inconvenience...
Its the truth ruth
der pudding wird aber noch gegessen oder?
Should have said " say in Germany accent" lol
@@teetywoo3156 laughed way more than I should have
have you got a link ware you got the air powered spear gun
Handy if you ever get burgled by a rogue tuna
Wordsmith Gobshite I'm dead xD
Wtf is burgled?
Keeps loan sharks at bay also.
XD
Wordsmith Gobshite A man killed his family with a spear gun look up the Sharpe Murders
all it's going to take is 1 person successfully defending themselves with a spear gun and they'll get added to the restricted list buy while you can
+madbully1 lol.
Well then. I'm leaving my doors unlocked so I can kill an intruder with my tv licence!
They would even ban bread if someone managed to defend theselves with it from an assailant because it's all about the culprit's rights
No matter the gun laws criminals will always get black market guns. Gun control just stop non criminals from defending themselves. Anyone who is for gun control is extremely uneducated
March 13, 2019, two students entered a school in São Paulo, Brasil, with a revolver and a crossbow, machetes and throwing knives. They killed 10 peole, all with the gun, bought ilegally with the numbers ground out. One of them was 17, the other 25 years old, minimum legal age to buy a gun. But the media is bitching about the fact that "crossbows can be bought from the internet by anyone". They didn't care much for the fact that one of those kids was raised by his grandma, had no father and a drug addict mother, and was been bullied spitless in the school. I don't know about the other, didn't pay much attention to that actually, i have more important stuff to do. But yes, if you write a hate message on a wall, they want to ban spray cans. They're that bright.
"It takes 200 strokes to get harder"
+matias hejsan Oh Mann
believe it or not but i was looking for this comment
This is the hardest thing ive ever done
I'm sure that isn't what he meant.
Do you think a scuba diver fishing under water takes 200 strokes every single time to shoot?
Nice video but the pneumatic spearguns don't need pumping up every time, they use the compressed air like a spring and no air actually escapes, you simply re-compress it after each shot!
yes!!
Shit!! I was just in the process of hiring a bunch of fish to break into your house and now that whole plan is out the window!! Thanks!
Joerg, the air powered one doesn't need to be pumped every time, it's a piston that fires it, the air is just compressed in it. The speargun it selves doesn't let out any air what so ever, so to load it all u need to do is push the am spear in it
Thats absolutely true 👍
most likely blew the seals by firing it out of the water and will no longer hold pressure.
Yup. And it can be kept like that. In fact, my dad found such a speargun in the late 1980s, presumably pumped up as it fired then. I found it 4 years ago after 30 odd years of storage and it still fired!
200 strokes and it gets succesively harder...
+goblinad1 hahahaha please
+goblinad1 yeah and i didnt know doubling up the rubber increases penetration a good 4-5 cm
@@Wehra96 Only on your mother.
@@Dynitios200 strokes, clearly more penetration 😂
I absolutely love that you are unapologetic about home defense weaponry and blatantly skirting the stupid laws many of us have to deal with. Your home is your castle, only you can defend it.
health and safety laws are pretty over-zealous, but i think it's wise to have restrictions on firearms. anything else is pretty fair game though; slingshots, crossbows, catapults, scimitars, battleaxes, i think the line should be if it's non-concealable, and requires a certain amount of skill and ability to use (such as the strength needed to cock a spear gun), since firearms are pretty easy to accidentally kill someone with.
+Mikail Elchanovanich Dude, there are about 500 lethal accidents in the US per year, and they have 100 Million gun owners. That whole "oh my god, the gun accidents"-thing is totally overblown. It's like the "attack-dog" panic or the fuzz about the next virus of the year.
Passing gun control and anti-gun laws because of gun accidents or even crime is like banning vaccines because you don't like the sting of the needle. Guns are used to PREVENT crime almost infinitely more than they are used in crime, not counting the innumerable other peaceful uses of guns.
WestcoastWheelman
i'd like a source for that, and really there should be no accidents at all, but in any case it's not just about the accidents, it would make intentional deaths much less common also, it's a lot harder to use other means of weaponry to kill someone than it is to just shoot them with a gun. i didn't say anything about bans, i said restrictions are wise, the US is much too liberal with their gun control. for guns at least i would say Germany is very fair with it's gun laws, it allows people to have basically whatever they want, but doesn't lack safety protocol like the US.
@@WestCoastWheelman
Inumerabe ? Peaceful ? Use for guns ?
Ok, here goes .. flowerstand , doorstop , flyswatter , fishing weight, pastry stamp, cigarette holder, hammer, paperweight, musical instrument, juggling gun, , pendulum, novelty water tap, erm.. lampstand, crib mobile , er.. ok that's me.
Let's have your innumerable peaceful guns . Boy, you must be a genius..
10:18 Thanks for catching me joerg! that would have sucked!
(-_-)
+Mr Spoopy i was a bit high
+DazmoTube lol
Kuhl
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LMAO Joerg YOU DON'T HAVE TO PUMP IT UP TO RELOAD IT WTF!!!!
The air does not escape when you fire it. When you put the spear in, it pushes back a piston which moves forward again when you shoot it. The air slowly leaks out over a very long time, you can fire it hundreds of times without having to pump it.
I'm worried that you overpressurized that speargun, I can't imagine the pressure in there when you pumped it up when it was fully pumped from the beginning.
more pressure =more power
more pressure = boom you have no hands those guns are dangerous
The Cressi SL start to spray hydraulic oil around 43 bar of preload pressure... and already at 35 bar it takes some technique to reload it... this test has been made with some of the less powerful spearguns on the market: try a real one for grown-up and you'll see
I own one wich need like 120lbs to reload it, under water its like a shotgun..the smaler fish just cut off in 2 parts if you hit them.. )))
He seem to be no knowledge about speargun... The rubber one can just add another rubber or use shorter or bigger diameter band.. and the phenumatic one are pump one only for hundred shoot
Every time you say "Let me show you its features!" it makes me extremely happy.
Dude, I totally get that too.
Yessss
If you're going to fire a speargun when you're not underwater, make sure you remove the tether that attaches the spear to the speargun. If you don't, the spear can come back at you when it reaches the end of the tether.
Thumpert the Fascist Cotton-tail that takes all the fun out of setting the barb and yanking them back if they try to run.
Joerg, apart from these videos, what kind of job do you do? Are you an engineer?
Criticalperspective2 he is a fulltime youtuber
The pneumatic speargun should b able to fire repeatedly the by just reinserting the spear shaft. Something is wrong here. Maybe he simply doesn't realize this! My Mares gun shoots forever. It would be useless for spearfishing otherwise. I'm sure that his is the same.
Yeah 8 to 10 shots before it begins to slow down, then it will still go another 15 or so before it gets to be too slow.
Yes,you can fire at least 50 shoots before pumping again...
+Scott In Colorado i wonder if that specs has different result of under water vs above water. and maybe cheapers has some effect too.
+Tyee Cambrón umm. ... this isnt hunting spear gun ...
this is home defence speargun
hunting speargun usually for underwater really
ariq45
There is no such thing as a home defense speargun you mental midget, he repurposed it.
Holy shit TH-cam is where intelligent comments go to die.
While I'd personally prefer a handgun or shotgun for home defense, I think a spear gun would be pretty effective. If I was a criminal, and I saw a huge spear embed itself in the wall next to me, I'd be like "Fuck this! This guy's crazy!"
Firearms are illegal in most of Europe, so this is not a first choice.
+Io They're not illegal, just difficult to get. Varies country by country though.
Io same with Australia, you can buy guns, but are restricted to clip size, amount of shots, rim fire or centre fire, etc.
DrivenByDiamond even more terrifying for the criminal if the spear embeds itself into his stomach
"HAW HAW HAW HAW"
Something no mugger or burglar ever wants to hear in the dark.
I actually use LEGO bricks as home defense. I have them placed around my home, and only I and other residents of my home know where they are. I've installed X-Acto blades and other sharp spikes into them to provide a bit of puncturing power if the intruder wears boots or shoes. Without the blades or spikes, LEGO bricks are still powerful items for home defense, but they don't just get the job done without them.
+Kale F. calm down, Satan
Just wait til someone breaks in and legos are banned because they hurt the criminal :D
I use my bow fishing kit for home defense, a convenient string is attached to the arrow so I can simply reel in the bad guys.
Bro, you don't pump it every time you reload!
PeculiarMovement someone was saying he probably blew the seals on it from firing it out of water. I assume some kind of lubricant or grease meant for pneumatic spear guns would make it so he wouldn’t blow the seals. Doesn’t seem like he knows what he’s talking about much at all with these weapons so I doubt he had the sense to grease an air gun.
@@twilightzone39 yeah, keep greasing your air guns, keep them well oiled too
Nice! Some people make spear guns out of teak wood! They are pretty expensive and are considered high end quality! So I would say that it politically correct to use wood for making something like that! In any case, your videos are really awesome, I really enjoy them! :)
Its used for hunting not just home defense asshole
When you are defending your family there should be no warning shot. You don't know what kind of weapons the other person has. The first shot should be the kill shot.
Some people fire the warning shot after the kill shot though...
Why would you kill someone if you had the opportunity to end the situation without violence?
+PF UL Because there's less of a chance of one's family being harmed if the assailant is killed.
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I guess it really depends on your personal experiences, especially in regards to crime, but I would probably do everything I could to deescalate first.
Then again, gun violence is very low in my home country, so especially if you're armed yourself, you're kinda used to the thought of having the upper hand...
+PF UL I guess so. But if it were my family, I wouldn't take any chances.
Mr. Sprave,
The compressed air speargun you used is sealed, in other words it does not loose air pressure when shot. It works by compressing a piston when the spear shaft is loaded. These type of speargun usually ship pressurized from the factory and I think that's why it was difficult for you to pressurize again using the hand pump. I think that you may have doubled the safe working pressure of the speargun. This is a very dangerous situation and I recommend purging all the pressure out of the speargun and pressurizing it again to the manufacturers specifications. I own these types of spearguns and I use the pump maybe once a year as some air may seep out due to heavy use and old seals.
+Derek L.C. Yes, many people commented this already. I will clear this up in the next video. This explains why I could only push the spear in with my entire body weight and strength - both are considerable.
you do realize that you only pump up that spear gun every like 10 or so shots, you just put the spear back in and fire it again and again and again FYI
agree with Daycee.
I've have been using different types of air pressured spearguns and even after 10 shots you still dont need to pump again. i have got my cressi sl 40 and have used it about over 4-5 years now and only have changed rubber gasket once, but only have pumped twice in all time and have been shooting 250-300 times both under and over water with it without losing pressure.. so therefore rubbish about pumping after every shot.
they really need to let you all have firearms again.
Can you make a video that shows us how to shoot/aim with a slingshot? :D
+jørgen kvamme he has mentioned it in a few videos. he said he doesn't really aim because he is an instinctive shooter ,but for aiming you hold the slingshot sideways and line up whatever you are shooting at underneath the top fork.
Finally! I can now defend my home from being attacked by schools of tuna or maybe the odd marlin here or there.
No offense Joerg, but it's quite dangerous to condone warning shots, both legally and "tactically".
Legally--
1.) In many countries/states, firing a weapon as a threat is illegal unless you are in direct fear for your life. Your ability and decision to fire a warning shot can legally put this direct fear in question. In the US, classes teach not to use your weapon unless you mean to kill, because anything less does not require it and will become increasingly more difficult to defend in a court of law. That's not something you want trouble defending. Everyone should know their local laws and learn what they mean in practical situations.
2.) It's difficult or impossible for many people to fire a warning shot in a safe direction in their living situation. You are legally and morally responsible for the warning bullet you put into the baby's crib down the street, or shot in the air and landed in someone's yard.
Tactically--
You've now missed on purpose, and Johnny-meths-a-lot might just start shooting with HIS gun. Now you're in a gunfight, maybe with your family in the house on top of it. You've also wasted ammunition, which is catastrophic in a weapon that has low capacity. If you use 1 out of your 2 shots to warn someone trying to hurt or kill you, you're in for a very bad time. You should ALWYAS have a flashlight to ID the person, and know whether it's the drunk college kid walking into the wrong house, or Johny-meths-a-lot with a .45 in his hand. Option A. doesn't get shot at all, while option B. doesn't get a warning shot at all.
+bbroogs good point!
Johnny-meths-a-lot is also a really funny name!
The warning shot doesn't have to be the first one
You get way more street cred shooting burglars with spear guns, glock 9mm are for lightweights! Hahahaha..
Turning up at A&E pinned to a door would be most embarrassing.
The slingshot channel has always been one of my faves just so entertaining and very interesting.
I know people have used this joke before, but “Let me show you it’s features” would be the last thing an intruder heard before meeting a gruesome death 🤣
Cops: "Do you always keep a loaded speargun in your bedroom?"
Joerg: "Do you always let criminals break into people's bedrooms?"
Is youtube your job or do you have an other job ?
+Marco Ligon I have another job, but switched to part time a few months ago so I have more time for TH-cam.
+JoergSprave thx for the reply, great videos !
+JoergSprave And we've never been happier for it :D
I think he's retired, but he does sell slingshots and supplies
Jack in Black where ?
I love it if he says Let me Show you its Features!
It just makes my day 😂😂😂😂
hahahhah yea .. i love it
1:34
same haha I had to check
I thought my phone had a alert
I want to see someone break into Joerg's house
I would buy tickets and popcorn for that show
Let's set up a GoFundMe page and pick straws ..
warning shots are a mistake. if someone is in your house and stealing or intending to do harm, they're fair game. two shots would be better for the chance for a follow up shot in case the first missed or was ineffective.
+Samy If you are in America. In Germany, you are not allowed to kill an unarmed intruder. Your property does not count as much as a criminal's life.
...if the intruder is armed, you can make mincemeat of him, of course.
Here in Germany consists of protection against perpetrators and no protection of victims. If a burglar in your apartment injured, because of stumbles, because you have your lumber left standing around, you can be held liable.
Ineffective being the key word here. I doubt that that spear has sufficient stopping power. The invader may have a mortal wound but because of the thin wound canal, it'll probably take a while for them to go down.
@@ausnahmenwerfer5570 well actually you are allowed to shoot at him in germany.
Der §32 StGB Notwehr sieht keine verhältnismäßigkeitsprüfung im solchen Sinne vor. Es wird lediglich geprüft, ob die eingesetzte Gewalt theoretisch ein geeignetes Mittel darstellt, den gegenwärtigen rechtswidrigen Angriff zu unterbinden.
10:19 That mini heart attack lol. Beep = Scheisse?
Joerg, the pneumatic speargun can only be puped once to desired power, and then used for 100+ shots. The air is compressed by the piston while you reload, so it does not escape, after some time you have to check the seals and add a few pumps :) Cheers from the coast of Slovenia :)
is there anything more badass then a harpoon that works on 12ga blanks for home defense?
Joerg you don't have to pump up the air powered spear gun every time. The air stays inside the gun and it can be reused hundreds of times.
+Giovanni FUCKING THANK YOU!!! Why did I have to scroll so far to find this. How the hell would that be practical to shoot fish with, especially underwater. It would make a huge air bubble. I'm disappointed that he didn't even read the instructions.
Hello there ! İ am a big fun of slingshots and catapults and watched all of your videos, told my friends about your channel too:) so as i can see you are very open to your subscribers demends and ideas; so i've came up with and idea. My idea for you to test is a slingshot that shots a second slingshot which is preloaded that releases its load at end of the first slingshots muzzle when it is at its highest speed by a mechanism which i am sure you'll figure out how, in order for the second slingshot to shoot correctly the 2nd slingshot should be going in some sort of rail mounted on the largest slingshot. İ am sure that it'll be interesting to see on slow motion a slingshot shot by an other larger one reaching these high speeds and also shooting maybe a marble or bb, and theoreticaly since the small slingshot will already be at a high speed right before it shoots its load the acutal shot of the bb from the 2nd slingshot would be super fast and powerful ! Looking forward to see it!:)
+Zagros Ozkan th-cam.com/video/qYi9F2F2QoE/w-d-xo.html
He already did that :)
+JoergSprave Hot damn, that's competence.
+JoergSprave Joerg, I have a challenge for you. As you said in the "slingception" video, it could theoretically be possible to break the speed of sound, with a "slingception slingsho". So now, a couple of years later, I want you to do exactly that! Break the speed of sound with a slingshot, and I assure you that you simultaneously will break the internet!
I live in the US and of all the firearms or weapons that we can obtain, I would rather be shot than stabbed. and the thought of a spear gun going through my chest vs a bullet...ya, no thanks.... now i want a spear gun to add to my home defense collection.
Hate to tell you this, but a bullet does much more internal damage.
Greg Pecaut lol no it doesn’t dude a massive spear is going to mess you up a lot worse than any bullet lol
@@savannahnoelle1649 Regardless. Either one can be very lethal
I still prefer guns for home defence
pneumatic doesn't require pumping after every shot, it doesn't lose pressure when you shoot. The air inside does not escape. The pump is for times when you bleed air out of the back valve for a lower pressure or maintanance (changing worn out o rings) which is about maybe once every other year. On the other hand you will wear out the o rings very quickly if you shoot it out of the water. There are some pneumatics that are designed to shoot out of water but they are very rare like the mares bazooka.
I think a crossbow would be a better choice because it has more penetrating power and ist legal too it is also legal to carry what surprised me. Well, the german laws are not the most reasonable laws
Joerg,
I love this channel. Your exuberance and presentation bravado, infectious laugh, and the outrageous stuff you get up to have me laughing so hard I nearly pee myself. Always great fun to watch! Keep up the great work.
An Israeli friend I worked with said this of his time in the army, "First, you shoot the man, then you fire a warning shoot to explain him you shot him"
hahabhaha
Ok....That explains the civilian shooting and bombings in the middle east.
1:44 It has no fletching because its meant to travel THROUGH WATER, not air. Fletching would be a major source of drag for a projectile in water: the water flow along the shaft stabilizes the projectile - no fletching needed.
6:00 You could add one of the CO2 canisters with a valve to the gas operated one. Open a valve, equalize pressure, close the valve, load the spear, a helluva lot faster than manually pumping the damn thing.
no need to repump each shot! the air chamber is sealed and act as a spring
If we here in Australia used that on an intrude in our home and killed that person we would be charged with murder. That is how well we are protected by our government!!!
Thank you for sharing I never thought of this as a home protection
I never knew this is for home defence. I use it for spear fishing...
I don't think it is I think he just wanted to customize it
+silent555 that's cool. But I never really hunt eels. You must having sushi for breakfast I guess xD
+Not Vince Offer seriously I'm just that idiotic.
The Screaming Goat Production Wha
+Not Vince Offer I mean this thing should be for home defence, but idiotic me use it for fishing
My friend, I really appreciate this video. Everyone has the natural right to defend their home and their family. The spear gun is a good option to be honest. It will certainly stop an intruder, and may have the advantage of being less lethal (thereby shielding the defender from prosecution). Only problem is it takes a while to reload, so your first shot has to count. I just hope that the megalomaniacs in government don't get the idea to now ban spear guns in your country.
As an American I will say that the ability to defend your home and family is a consequence of the 2nd Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. However, that is not the primary purpose of that amendment. Really, it is to hold the government always at the risk of revolution if it tramples on the natural rights of the people.
WHAT IS THAT BEARD
+DJ SuperCharge It's the next crop of re-enforcing fiber for a resin sling-shot frame.
1tulip seems legit
"It takes about 200 strokes and it gets succesivelly harder." Hmmm.... sorry just still not recovered from your viagra video.
that psi powered one is a monster though. i wonder if you could attach a compressed air canister to it and make a crossbow pull lever style loader for it. and just make it a beast.
ok idk why but it looked like there was a green screen behind you this entire video...
xD
+SouperCow xDD lolrawr /)~(\
+Tr1gg3r1911 The shed is just a set on stage
Hi Joerg,
I am hunting with a spear guns for many years and I also prefer the one with rubbers :) , but I'm pretty sure that you are able to reuse the air gun without repumping it again, it would be useless for spear fishing! I'm sure you already realised that! :)
Also you can use additional single rubber (use the hole on the tip of the gun and load it to the second slot available on the spear). That way you have much more power, because you are loading each rubber separately. I would like to see the penetration difference! :)
Regards Dionysios
"welcome to the sling-shot channel, HAHA HAHA! "
I love this guy :)
Hey Joerg, Dein Englisch ist ja richtig stubenrein! Kompliment!!! Bist ein echter Hecht!
If you're going to take someone out with a spear gun you have to decide whether to say "GET OVER HERE," or go oldschool and quote Dirty Harry by saying "you're shit out of luck."
Even if you get a fatal shot, very rarely do people die instantly. I feel like you are better off with a bow and a set of fixed blade broad heads (or even field tips). This way you can fire multiple times, and reloading can be done much smoother.
Makes sense. I imagine that a fixed blade broadhead would cause the target to bleed out quicker as well. But I suppose a speargun is better than nothing.
Saving up for a new beard slingshot? ;)
That speargun seems rather unpractical - how about a nice pair of flint or wheel lock pistols, one with birdshot or just powder for warning and one with ball for the real deal (ok and hearing protection) and with nice I mean the ones which have a nice pommel for striking / clubbing )
+KuniCross still illegal for civilians in most countries.
NuclearHeadshot Maybe on the road - but at your home both is quite legal to own at last in Germany and the USA. (Black powder is a bit of a problem here in Germany but I think there are kind of pressed together cartridge for muzzle loaders you could own without a permit / license - to own open black powder legally you´ll need a permit for explosives which should be atainable as long as you have a clean criminal record...)
If I recall it right you even could carry a muzzle loader openly here but not 100% sure (if the design is from before 187something at least) (also does not apply for multi shot weapons like percussion revolvers, that´s a gun as much as a new one legally - not quite sure about multi barrel stuff...)
+Was wäre wenn? do you know how it's with that binded powder stuff (Pulvetlinge?)
I would say it's probably easier to obtain a license for black powder or do you also need to regularly show your continued need as when in a shooting club?
You could use a compressor or c02 cartriges to load it
+Hastalavista Baby Warning: DO NOT MACHINE BERYLLIUM COPPER, DUST IS TOXIC TO HUMANS!
Copper has a higher density than steel, and beryllium copper is one of the few materials used to make springs.
The mammalian dive reflex is so awesome when freediving.
PS two spears, +/-V
Hello und whalecum tuh teh shlungshut chennal
Bcuz sefty is noumba won pryorijdb
I live in America, in the mitten state of Michigan, I don't have to improvise for a firearm, but as a recreational device I could have fun impaling things with one.. As always great video Jeorg!
What about a version that uses compressed air cartridges, so reloading is quicker?
I don't know of it's practical, because the spears are quite heavy. it's a good idea though :)
That's what I was thinking
+Riley Trussell Could use gunpowder xD
+Corbyn Jacobs ahah think that would then class as a firearm😂
+Riley Trussell They won't know that ;)
When youve just finished building a rubber band powered harpoon gun and a robber breaks in
*_LET ME SHOW YOU ITS FEATURES_*
looking big joerg, what is your training/diet like?
+skeochJ1 My routine: Work out a lot, never go hungry, try to go easy on the beer (in vain for the most part) :)
Haha sounds alot like myself
Actually the pneumatic gun is the best option by far - but only if you know how to properly load and use it.... You don't ever really need to pump it unless its leaking. It should hold the pressure after every shot. Leaving a rubber gun loaded for a very long time - weakens and breaks the rubbers. Do the same with a pneumatic and nothing gets damaged - even if left loaded for a year. Also when not is use - Rubber bands need to be removed and frozen in order to prevent deterioration. Pneumatic is by far the most reliable, dependable, powerful, has the heaviest gauge spear (=MORE MOMENTUM), easiest and safest to load without any risk of hurting your own fingers or breaking of bands or gun muzzle while loading (which could be fatal to user if loaded out of the water) plus a thousand other advantages. And by the way... the spear end on a pneumatic is not airtight. It's the piston inside the barrel that's airtight. The thick washer at the end is to prevent the spear scratching the internal bore, which would result in a leak, by centering the spear in the muzzle.
I don't need home defense, I have a dog.
Good luck with that.
mdoe8 Thanks.
+JustIn sert (Theowner428) unless you get robbed by koreans.......
+JustIn sert (Theowner428) I have a cat. It's not like it's going to get fed if I'm not around so that's all the motivation it needs to protect its master.
***** Pretty unlikely where I live, but thanks for the heads up. I'll buy myself a nice 50 bmg for home defense
I do spearfishing allot and have to say:
1) You don't have to pump pneumatic gun after each shoot, but shooting it out of the water is definitely damaging the gun.
2)There is much better ways to do sling speargun stronger:
a)There is special hole in front of the "barrel", throw that hole you can add another sling.
b)Existing sling can be made shorter, or replaced buy more powerful sling (20 mm sling)
1:33 why is that beeb there?
+Sledner Because I used an inappropriate word.
+JoergSprave 4:49 - 5:03 ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
+RektSkrubs i know what you mean xD
+Sledner Like Bieber or barb ? the BARB is so you can pull in the fish after spearing it
Joerg the hole at the muzzle end is to add another round band for added power. So the other notch on the shaft is for the second band. That's why there's two notches on the shaft. The wishbone that hooks to the shaft from the rubber band doesn't need to be metal. We here in Hawaii don't normally use metal wishbones because they are to loud under water. We use a strong cord of about 4 inches long with a knot tied at each end. Push the knot into the band far enough so you can tie a holding knot with something similar to dental floss but thicker and also waxed like dental floss. Tie about 15 to 20 knot to hold in place.Also can't wait to see what you have in store for the next video.Aloha, Nate.
I think that your best bet for a double shooter would be using both methods (rubber and air). For instance, you could encase the air one in a chassis that allowed for a rubber shooter up top
The air is in permanently, about 290 psi. When u push spear down it compress's the piston down barrel increasing pressure even further. Some ones not reading manual...roflmao thats funny
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Great reviews thank you. The air spear gun can fire more than one shot without needing to be pumped up again. Pumping it 200 times would give you enough in reserve to fire 3 decent shots. Each one a bit less powerful than the one before, but still very effective. I think one crucial thing with either gun as a home defense weapon, is to have a couple of extra spears for reloading.
I always thought that powerful air weapons with reservoirs could be easily reloaded if one used a leg pump rather than arm pump.
Also, I wonder if there are CO2 versions of spear guns. That way they could be reloaded very quickly.
HOME INVADERS DONT TAKE SPEARS AND ARROWS SERIOUS THEY THINK A KNIFE OR GUN IS MORE DANGEROUS , WHEN YOUR MORE LIKELY TO SURVIVE A GUN SHOT , THAN AND BOW AND ARROW SHOT , SO TO THE HOME INVADERS YOU SEE A SPEAR GUN YOU BEST RUN AS YOUR UNLIKELY TO SURVIVE THE IMPALEING !!!
Yeah ill stick to the Remington 870
Spearguns are a mediocre replacement for the real SPEARS. My whole family is trained in the art of the phalanx formation
I think people are going to start rethinking harpoon guns after seeing that ballistics test...
Problem with self defence in many countries is no matter the tool you use, if you kill the guy, you'll go to jail... Self defense or not...
No Joerg you are wrong. When you pump it up you can shoot with it many times, not just one... otherwise even for the spearfishing it would be impossible to use it.
Second thing, you forgot to say an important thing. Outside of the water you MUST always remember to take off the cord attached from the gun to the aluminum bar otherwise the bar will come back to you after shooting. You did it of course but people may forget to do it or underestimate the issue.
And third, it's just a curious fact, the difference underwater between the two guns is that the one air compressed shoots faster but has a problem, it makes noise and it will cause the fish to go away even if they're meters away from you. The one rubber based is less powerful but it doesn't make any noise and fishes will not know that you are in the area.
By the way great video as usual, sorry for my english. Take care Joerg have a nice day!!!!
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Jorge a pneumatic speargun loose its pressure after houndreds and houndreds of shots.Not each single one....the reason the pump was so hard (and the shot so powerfull) was the fact you pumped in other 200 Times and brought the full pressoure to double the recommended value (also a very risky thing).Once full pumped up the charge lasts for something like 40-50 shots and Only take a couple of pumps to get it back to full power
+Bigbosos Yes, many people commented this already. I will clear this up in the next video.
Well, as we learned from Demolition Ranch, speed is preferable to mass when it comes to penetration. Just get something flying fast enough, and it'll punch through anything. The space shuttle Columbia broke up after a bit of foam came off and hit it at hypersonic speeds. Frigging _foam._
Also, that spear lost all its accuracy because it's tailheavy. Things tend to fly straighter when they're noseheavy, which is why arrows are typically wood or aluminum with a steel head.
+frobie54 My findings are completely different. Speed and mass are equal in the equation for momentum. A train at 30 mph will destroy pretty much anything. Weld a spear at the front of it and there is NOTHING that spear would not penetrate, at that low speed. Of course fast AND heavy is best :)
These arrows aren't tail heavy. They are in fact a bit nose heavy due to the hooks, otherwise they are just straight rods.
Those spears are basically designed to be the ultimate penetrators, since they're meant to be fired underwater. From a physics standpoint, the spear is penetrating the water just like it is your archery mat, so to get good range, they have to optimize them for penetration. The energy behind the projectile matters much less than its geometry and density for penetration.
Hi in reference to the pneumatic spear gun being given 200 pumps every time he has fired it. I thought it was odd when a man his size would be exhausted after pumping it the gun up from 0 psi. This spear gun probably has a 1000 psi or more in it now which speaks volumes for the Cressi trigger mechanism and seals not being blown or the way to France. I stated several hours after the video was is posted n even posted the guns manual URL but no due diligence has been shown in retracting this dangerous misinformation.
+BrettsAustralia I answered to about one million similar comments, will put things right in the next vid. BTW if you insert urls into TH-cam comments, TH-cam's anti spam bots will automatically put your comment into the "Likely Spam" folder and nobody ever sees it.
it has a slot for 2.nd rubber band that is why your spare has 2 notches.
First of all great video but as an avid spear fisherman I will have to say some information was not correct.
example 1 the rubber band gun:
The large hole at the bottom of the muzzle is for attaching a secondary band for more power.
example 2 the pneumatic speargun:
The air does not ever need to be refilled/pumped up unless it leaks out over time, basically the 200+ pumps you speak of only needs to be done once. However, the guns ship pre filled you actually don't need to do it. Unless of coarse you want to add more air to increase power :P. So the reload time of this is actually faster than the rubber powered gun because all that is needed is to drive the shaft in again and you are ready to shoot again.
All that being said owning anything for the purpose of self defense is sadly illegal in the over regulated place we call Australia.
+konklotzz I stand corrected. I have to say the instructions on the weapons were not obvious in that regard - but maybe I wasn't thorough enough. Also too bad you can't own a spear gun for self defense in Australia. But if you bought one for the next summer vacation and it just happens to be in reach?
+JoergSprave, I happen to have 3 already and they are in my closet :P
Hallo,
erstmal möchte ich dir sagen das ich deine Videos wirklich sehr gut und
interessant finde! Bei diesem Video hier ist mir nur aufgefallen dass du das
Prinzip einer pneumatischen Harpune nicht ganz verstanden hast. Eine
pneumatische Harpune arbeitet mit einer Luftdruckfeder. Das heißt die
Vorspannung der Feder, wird über den Druck, der im entlasteten Zustand der
Harpune herrscht, eingestellt. Über das Ventil am Ende der Harpune kann man
Druck ablassen und die Luftdruckfeder wird somit "weicher". Mit der beiliegenden
Pumpe kann man den Druck erhöhen und die Luftdruckfeder wird dadurch
"härter". Es ist NICHT nötig die Harpune nach jedem Schuss erneut mit
Luft zu befüllen. Das erneute Aufpumpen erhöht die Vorspannung in der
Luftdruckfeder und macht die Harpune "stärker". Die Anleitung deiner
Harpune enthält mit Sicherheit eine Tabelle, in der geschrieben steht, wie
viele Pumpenhübe die für die benötigte Vorspannung der Harpune benötigst. Das
gilt aber nur im drucklosen Zustand der Harpune. Sprich wenn du über das Ventil
am Ende der Harpune den gesamten Druck abgelassen hast. Wenn du die Harpune
nach jedem Schuss erneut Aufpumpst, kann das sehr gefährlich werden und zur
Explosion der Druckluftkammer führen! Die meisten pneumatischen Harpunen sind
für ca. maximal 30 Bar ausgelegt. Mit den zusätzlichen 200 Pumpenhüben die du
in deine Harpune gefüllt hast dürfte deine Harpune nahe an 30 Bar sein, wenn
sie nicht schon darüber ist,
Grüße
Actually, for compressed-air spearguns (if there are not leakages), it's not necessary to reload the internal pressure with the pump each time.
Once the pressure is set it will last for dozens of shots.
Still I'm a huge fun of arbaletes anyway :)
Also big fun of the channel, indeed :)
Joerg, be very careful using metal wishbones on spearguns. The wishbone is the part that connects the rubber to the spear. Metal wishbones give little to no warning when they are about to fail. When they fail they can cause serious injury, like ripping a finger off. It is much better to use corded wishbones made from Dyneema or another material. They visibly fray when starting to fail and are much less likely to cause injury.
It went in very deeeep...
That's what she said.
Who would be stupid enough to try to invade your home? I mean honestly.
Slingshot is good for home defence? Answer please, great vid😊
i have the cressi air one with mine you dont have to pump it up everytime cause the air is compressed when you force the spear down the barrel . Ive pumped it once in 2 yrs.