Bob Carter wrote: > I am thinking of going with the pistol type flare system though where I will > store them on me while I paddle I have not figured out yet. A couple of years ago, I found a neat design for a 12g flare launcher that was a folding tube design rather than a pistol. It was slightly larger than two pencil flares, so well suited to a PFD pocket. That was the good news. The bad news was that the company was bought by Orion (or their parent company) and they decided to scrap the product in favour of their old, bulky pistol design. So, I never was able to get one... though I looked through a bunch of marine shops hoping to find one in their old stock. I just looked to see if anything new is available and - no luck. However, I did find the following - a CSI's view of a flare gun. If nothing else, it shows that the Skyblazer flares are better than the Orion flares when used in the Orion flare gun. http://www.noedelscientific.com/user/Flaregun1.pdf Mike *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Mon Jul 23 2007 - 05:43:42 PDT
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