Tyler

I got hold of the Shotgun halfway through our first beachie session and it felt really refined compared with the thicker boards we’d been riding. Sliced through turns rather than bouncing and you got speed in a different way – sort of by drawing lines instead of just from tail width.

Nick

I had expectations of finding a real defined drive spot or sweet spot on this board thanks to the way the concave is placed, but that’s not how it felt, instead there was just an overall ease of control throughout the board’s lines. The board also felt quite slim and sharp, a narrower feel than the width measurement would suggest, and I think that might have been the chamfer on the underside of the back end rail. The board felt like it got from rail-to-rail back there very quickly – almost a narrow single-finny feeling. There’s something a bit rock hard about it – fun to play around on in two-to-three-foot beachies, yet it clearly has down-the-line point or reef tube-riding potential. More to it than on the surface that’s for sure.

Shotgun Surboards, Tully St. John.

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Tully St John
Noosaville, QLD

Tully’s call: “A lot of this board has come from what my dad worked on through the years. (Tully’s dad is Noosa-based surfboard-making legend Mike St John.) He did single concaves in the ’70s with singles and twin-fins, even tried them on longboards before that. This one has a single all the way through, then a double inside it, giving it a fast bottom; the single straightens the stringer, the double breaks up the single, and the rail champfer just helps to tip the board up on to a rail in turns. I’ve tried to listen to a lot of the old blokes about design – they went to extremes back in the late ’60s and they can tell you what happened when they did. Then you can bring old ideas forward and match them with the new. I try and customise everything and look after everyone individually – if you run a tight ship and do good quality then the business will do well.”