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Shooting Head Definition
Posted: Sat Feb 02, 2013 1:18 am
by Barrio
What is your definition of a "Shooting Head"?
Shooting Head Definition
Posted: Sat Feb 02, 2013 7:43 am
by Ré_
Head attached to a fairly thin running line. Although SA Streamer Express and other Teeny-type line can have fairly thick running lines and still qualify for being an integrated shooting head.
The more interesting question is: What is the difference between a WF and a shooting head-shooting line combo?
Maybe higher weight of the head for the given line class, shorter carries and long shooting makes a shooting head (system).
Shooting Head Definition
Posted: Sat Feb 02, 2013 7:58 am
by Lasse Karlsson
Hi Mike
The lego version of a wf, you can build to your own preferences
Cheers
Lasse
Shooting Head Definition
Posted: Sat Feb 02, 2013 9:30 am
by Ben_d
A head is something that is trimmed to fit and attached to a low mass shooting line. Lasses def is good, lego WF, I like that!
Cheers
Ben
Shooting Head Definition
Posted: Sat Feb 02, 2013 11:19 am
by Hamish
Lasse Karlsson wrote:Hi Mike
The lego version of a wf, you can build to your own preferences
Cheers
Lasse
Now that is just a cracking definition.....
Shooting Head Definition
Posted: Sat Feb 02, 2013 11:48 am
by Svend
Hamish wrote:Lasse Karlsson wrote:Hi Mike
The lego version of a wf, you can build to your own preferences
Cheers
Lasse
Now that is just a cracking definition.....
That's the best definition i've ever heard too.
Cheers, Svend
Shooting Head Definition
Posted: Sat Feb 02, 2013 12:05 pm
by Barrio
Lasse Karlsson wrote:Hi Mike
The lego version of a wf, you can build to your own preferences
Cheers
Lasse
Nice, I like it
Best wishes
Mike
Shooting Head Definition
Posted: Sat Feb 02, 2013 1:21 pm
by Marc Fauvet
hey Mike !
it's the loop connection between the head and shooting line that defines it for me. (as explained by Bernd during a shooting head course in Spain a few years back
)
otherwise, (with a spliced or whatever permanent connection) it's a WF whose running/shooting line may vary in choice: nylon, braid, coated core, etc.
"Integrated Shooting Heads" is a stupid marketing term that makes no sense...
cheers,
marc
Shooting Head Definition
Posted: Sat Feb 02, 2013 1:47 pm
by Ré_
Marc Fauvet wrote:
"Integrated Shooting Heads" is a stupid marketing term that makes no sense...
cheers,
marc
It is very far from being a marketing term. I think it comes from the evolution of these lines: the basic idea of the Teeny lines were to melting the joints of a sinking shooting head and a floating running line.
How would you call a line that has a 8-9 meter fast sinking head and a floating running line and the headweight is 300 grains suggested to use on an 8wt rod? Sink tip? That is definitely not a sink tip for me. Sinking line? No way.
Shooting Head Definition
Posted: Sat Feb 02, 2013 2:42 pm
by Lasse Karlsson
Marc Fauvet wrote:hey Mike !
it's the loop connection between the head and shooting line that defines it for me. (as explained by Bernd during a shooting head course in Spain a few years back
)
otherwise, (with a spliced or whatever permanent connection) it's a WF whose running/shooting line may vary in choice: nylon, braid, coated core, etc.
"Integrated Shooting Heads" is a stupid marketing term that makes no sense...
cheers,
marc
Hi Marc
So a DT with loops at both ends is really just a long shootinghead named wrongly
Cheers
Lasse