RAILGUN TEST:

ROB ALLEN SHANTI 90

I had the pleasure to test a speargun from Rob Allen, a South African company well known in many countries with a long spearfishing tradition like USA, Australia and Portugal.
It was established over 20 years ago by the two founders Rob Allen and Jeremy Williams and with its products it has supported a lot of champions while catching their world record preys all over the world.
The railgun I have tested is the “Shanti”, a 90cm ocean mimetic carbon gear.

THE BARREL
Lightweight and extremely handy it allows you to easily aim the fishes and to shoot instinctively. It is provided with an integral rail guiding out the 6.6mm spear the gear is equipped with.
The barrel is available with green or blue water camouflage or without any so carbon coloured.

THE MUZZLE
The plastic muzzle allows to put in place a circular band although it is a “closed” one. The gear is provided with a 16mm blue coloured circular band with line ogive, however the muzzle allows you to mount an extra circular band on.

THE SPEAR
The spear the gear is originally equipped with has two main features that are not so common among local products: the tip and the notches.

The spear tip is a tri-cut one that ensures its integrity and penetration power even after hitting several times the rocks. In regards to the notches this spear has just one of them near the shank in order to eliminate a weakness point.

THE SETTINGS
The setting of this gear is clearly destined to a different conception of spearfishing, more oriented to big the tropical preys.
This is far evident in the spear features as in the bungee and the big snapclip with swivel to link the spear to the buoy.
However this difference does not represent a problem but a proof this railgun was designed to endure a greater stress and that is destined to have a great success in our waters where there are very few 50kilos monsters.

EURO SETTINGS
Before use you need to make a few modifications that are even suggested by the Rob Allen Portuguese website.
First of all you need to drill twice the barrel near the handle in order to screw the reel mounting part in. Then you have to drill the muzzle to screw in an inox ring or eyelet to pass the mono line through.
Just to find myself at my ease I removed the snapclip and the bungee as its function was performed by the reel. At the end my opinion about this railgun is definitely positive.