Adventure-Ocean
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A woman named Carly Hallam shared this picture. Living proof that people really do accidently shoot their fishing buddies. Twice I had spears accidently sent in my direction. Neither were too close but seeing this picture makes me realize the nightmare I could have had.
Though I don't hunt with guns on land, I can imagine a couple guys hunting together must really trust each others knowledge of gun and hunting safety. My friends and I had strict rules about loading a speargun anywhere near each other. We've all experienced mechanism problems that made our spears accidently release. We generally backed off on the buddy system and hunted an area alone. Maintaining a buddy system while hunting on scuba is not easy. It was a bit better for us because the visibility was most often over 100ft. Even still we'd get so into hunting we end up completely separated.
Perhaps this thread should be in the underwater hunting forum. I was hoping to hear from other spearfisherman on how they solve the hunting while buddying situation and at the same time share this accident. Adventure-Ocean