The firing distance of a polespear can be divided into two ranges.

One would need to take all the attributes into to account before firing a polespear towards a target.

A hybrid polespear combines aluminum with a more flexible material such as a fiberglass rod.

Some more serious hunters will equip the polespear with a slip-tip (tip removes from the end and tethers to a fixed point).

A polespear (hand spear or gidgee) is an underwater tool used in spearfishing, consisting of a pole, a spear tip, and a rubber loop.

Depending on the polespear's attributes such as mass, drag, band strength, band stretch, etc., the penetrating range can be from a scant few inches to several feet.

The more mass a polespear contains, the more band power it will require to move the same speed as a polespear with less mass.

It actually requires about 8-feet of polespear, measured from the rear, to do this because the stretch doesn't start till the band begins to provide tension (typically, about 2-feet loop length on a 10-footer).

However, it occupies a middle ground between the two; the sling is somewhat more powerful than a polespear and offers a much more comfortable grip, but is less powerful than most spear guns.

A Hawaiian sling is akin to a slingshot or an underwater bow and arrow, since the spear and the propelling device are separate, while a polespear has the sling (rubber loop) attached to the spear.

The spear is operated by placing the rubber loop in the crook of the thumb, then reaching up the spear shaft to stretch the elastic band and grabbing the polespear to hold the band in tension.

CRAY CLAW Turns your handspear into a cray tool.

Fish sampling and underwater observations are carried out at selected sites on scuba and snorkel, primarily by using rotenone ichthyocide and handspear, supplemented by angling with rod and baited line.

Kev Deacon- Grew up body surfing on Manly Beach from the age of 4 & rock fishing with my dad, started snorkeling in Sydney Harbour and saw all these fish so I made a handspear and started shooting them.

But you might take a hand spear in case something real inviting shows up.

Rick hurried to the shed and got two short hand spears.

Catch them with a net, rod or hand spear.

He longed for a weapon, even a hand spear.

The animals were then killed with hand spears.

Mochi yari (hand spear), a long spear used by ashigaru and samurai.

Fish that are common and can be taken with a hand spear include Flounder, Flathead and Garfish.

Pole spears, or hand spears, consist of a long shaft with point at one end and an elastic loop at the other for propulsion.

Te yari (hand spear): a small version of the yari suitable for use in confined spaces.

The hand spear slid over the hip bone of his opponent, past the vulnerable kidney, and crashed into a wooden coat rack standing alongside his assailant.

A polespear (hand spear or gidgee) is an underwater tool used in spearfishing, consisting of a pole, a spear tip, and a rubber loop.

When they drew nearer he saw that the band consisted of a score of men-at-arms, clad in bright armor and bearing in their hands spears and battle-axes.

In addition to the fines, the department successfully secured forfeiture of a large quantity of abalone, an aluminium dinghy, a 15 h.p. outboard engine and fuel tank and two hand spears.

Learned folk might say that is a good sign, but only 100 years ago, a local aboriginal in Sydney was seen to be walking with four 20-pound Snapper over his shoulder and a hand spear in one hand!

His right hand had already retracted to his hip, and without stopping had fashioned itself into the classical hand spear and was moving forward toward the left kidney of the man Remo had not yet seen.

Seldom watching this play have I been so persuaded that here were warriors, rather than actors impersonating warriors: capable with their thews, sinews and deftly handed spears – simple wooden poles, really – of carrying out mighty acts of slaughter.