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Old 03-30-2021, 08:01 PM   #3
Ron S
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Re: Advice for a new 70cm gun.

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Originally Posted by Marco View Post
Maybe a pneumatic, but it's not for everyone...
Yeah good guns, but not for me. Dive with a buddy and tried his out, but just didn’t care for it.

One big advantage to the RA’s is that spare shafts are easy to get and fairly inexpensive. I looked online but can’t seem to find replacement shafts for the Pathos guns, and the few shafts I found that look like they’d work are pretty expensive.

Might sound trivial but where we dive most often, (Fort Brag, CA), is a seven hour drive. The only shop in the area just went out of business due to the closure of abalone season and the pandemic, so all we have is what we take with us. I carry at least one spare mask, snorkel, light, knife, etc. And, since three of us were shooting 70cm guns that I had rigged all the same, two spare shafts that could be dropped into any gun. The new fangled fancy guns I’m looking at, like the Pathos and the newest Mako, don’t look like they’ll accept a traditional notched RA shaft, but I could be wrong...
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