Popgun Pete
Contributor
It has been many years in development, but finally this very different type of speargun has emerged as a carbon fiber speargun that looks and operates much like a band gun, but has no rubber power bands, only thin woven cord cables. Essentially it is a pneumatic energy accumulator that you use muscle power to charge up and is a high speed winch that launches the usual projectiles towards fish with power and precision. A pneumatic storage system is much more energy efficient than rubber bands and the CVT aspects allow the user to draw back the wishbone against force levels that would not otherwise be possible. Acting as a torque manipulator an axle mounting an inner and outer set of winding drums adjusts the force profile as the gun is cocked so that it is reversed in that dropping the wishbone in on the shaft tab is done at a lower force level than what will be produced as the wishbone drives forwards once the trigger is pulled.
Nothing like it has ever appeared before and the operating principle is covered by International Patents.
Nothing like it has ever appeared before and the operating principle is covered by International Patents.