Home-made inshore guns of my past

Shown below are the type of spearguns I used as a boy exploring the shallow reefs on the Big Island of Hawaii.  The gun shown on top is the second gun I built when I was about 14 years old and was a replica of my father's gun shown below.  My dad's gun is older than I am and was modeled after what he had used as a boy in the muddy rivers of the Phillipines.  The first gun I ever built I have since lost.  Both these spearguns were shaped from hickory axe handles using a simple wood rasp.

 

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Rusty old welded steel version

My father, a skilled welder, made this gun on his lunch break one day.  I remember him bringing home from work quite a few "experiments".  Needless to say, this one had a corrosion problem.

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