Bang Stick wanted

[scubamickey]

I would like to have the smaller handheld type version of bangstick to tuck away in a sheath for the "just in case scenario." For the same reason I have my concealed carry license... just in case I ever need it...not so I can go shootin up the place. Maybe I have misdjuged the questions as to why I want a bangstick but I read a couple of other old post on Bangsticks and it seems like all the liberal hearts were crying out because someone wants a "gun". They are legal items to posses and use and I should not have to explain why I would want a legal item so unless you are trying to assess what type I may need I think the question is irrelevant.

You are absolutely correct! But you know how the radicals are--all afraid of guns and think everyone else should be as well.

 

[ScubaKris]

Check the regs

http://myfwc.com/marine/Docs/Jan2008FlRecreationalSaltwtareRegsNewsletter.pdf

Jan 2008 pag 10 under spearing

the use of powerheads, bangsticks and rebreahers remain prohibited.

You cannot harverst,.. injuring so that it cannot be released unharmed is harvesting.

they don't care if you get eaten

 

[Wayward Son]

you can't use them to harvest. you can use them defensively. bunches of us do & we get checked by game & squish all the time.

 

[Nemrod]

just to be sure I'm clear:

I don't worry about sharks. I like seeing them. When I dive and am not spearing, I do not carry anything extra with me.

I don't worry about them when I am spearing unless I see one & it becomes aggressive. My goal is to not kill a shark. My goal is to get back in the boat without being bitten. Preferably with any fish I have. Since I'm not allowed to keep a shark in FL killed with a PH, I have little interest in killing one. I can't eat it, so there's no point in killing one unless that seems to be the only way to get back out of the water intact.

I again am not entering the pro or con but like you I certainly laugh when I hear people say sharks will not attack scuba divers. They have not been in low viz with a large and aggresive bull shark. Any time, rarely so far, that I have encountered a bull shark I pay close attention to him and if as at the Destin Jetty last year, we got out after he made three sneak up attempts from behind on us. He was aggressive and I did not like it. Figured it was his ocean, we gave it back to him. When I used to dive near Keaton Beach I carried a broom stick with me to poke them off. Never really had to poke them but --well--long story--another time.

N

 

[magicwanz]

Check the regs
http://myfwc.com/marine/Docs/Jan2008FlRecreationalSaltwtareRegsNewsletter.pdf
Jan 2008 pag 10 under spearing
the use of powerheads, bangsticks and rebreahers remain prohibited.
You cannot harverst,.. injuring so that it cannot be released unharmed is harvesting.
they don't care if you get eaten

You can use them for recreational and commercial harvest in Federal waters, check the Code of Federal Regulations.

Electronic Code of Federal Regulations:

 

[frogman62]

I have bang stick that has never been fired and will sell for $35.00 plus postage. Frogman62

 

[Papa_Bear]

I am a NRA Golden Eagle and Life member, so I am certainly not left of center bay a league! I have been diving 36 years this year and have been in the water without cage or bang stick with 16ft Great White, Mako, Great Hammerheads, Scalloped Hammers, 12ft Tigers, Bulls, White tips, Grays, Silkies, Big-snout sharks, Nurse, Horn, Leopard, Angel, Black tips, Sand Tigers, Lemon, and Whale! At no time have I ever felt the need for a Bang Stick! These are magnificent animals that have very little interest in eating divers! They are cowards for the most part like Hyenas and other scavengers.... They hit and run after surveying the potential meal! They can't afford to get hurt during feeding and this is why you see circling of prey looking for an opportunity, weakness, or opening! So don't look or act like food or prey and you won't be seen that way!

 

[Nemrod]

I am a NRA Golden Eagle and Life member, so I am certainly not left of center bay a league! I have been diving 36 years this year and have been in the water without cage or bang stick with 16ft Great White, Mako, Great Hammerheads, Scalloped Hammers, 12ft Tigers, Bulls, White tips, Grays, Silkies, Big-snout sharks, Nurse, Horn, Leopard, Angel, Black tips, Sand Tigers, Lemon, and Whale! At no time have I ever felt the need for a Bang Stick! These are magnificent animals that have very little interest in eating divers! They are cowards for the most part like Hyenas and other scavengers.... They hit and run after surveying the potential meal! They can't afford to get hurt during feeding and this is why you see circling of prey looking for an opportunity, weakness, or opening! So don't look or act like food or prey and you won't be seen that way!

"They hit and run (insert with your arm or leg) after surveying the potential meal," well, thats encouraging. And this is supposed to make the shark wary feel better. Well, good thing then, that certainly calms the fears of the pro bang stick group.

Pops, I got you beat in years, 42 years a diver.

N

 

[Papa_Bear]

And you haven't been eaten either! My point! Yes they do, do all the things I said, and if you face them and meet their challenges you don't look like bait or food and your survivability goes why up! With all the dives we have done and almost all of our fingers are here to tell the story!

 

[VooDooGasMan]

The only time a shark wants a diver is when you don't give him your booty on the stringer.
If your afraid of sharks, why are you a diver. bottom line you get agressive to them and they will leave. 99% of the time they just check me out, or lay ther and follow me with there eyes.

poster look harder there are bang sticks all over the world on the net.