Random thoughts

I have been guilty of necro posting (but not lately) so I ALWAYS check the date of the last post.. I have seen posts 3 years after a comment on waiting for laser to be delivered etc and some (mostly new) asking if the laser had come --do you like it etc etc.
good Lord-- I hope it had arrived!
problem is-- the new post will be dated as new but the one before was way too old to revive.. so one needs to read a few more older posts in order to be NOT be contributing another necro .sssssssss
It would help if members would ALWAYS follow up and not leave us hanging-- if it was important to post then it is equally important to follow thru-- this can be especially annoying when it is a FS thread-- once sold and gone most good members would add SOLD to the parent post as well as adding SOLD or GONE etc to that posts title .. you must use 'Go Advance' to edit the title of thread.

''=='' one more thing(if I may) the better intro thread (in WELCOME) has a title like 'hello from Houston' etc instead of just 'Hello.' especially if the poster failed to add location into their profile. I am far from the anti=social type-- I have pride about having met in person >100 forum members--how many have you met??.. (w/o LEMS that number would be small)

hak

hakzaw1 said:

I have been guilty of necro posting (but not lately) so I ALWAYS check the date of the last post.. I have seen posts 3 years after a comment on waiting for laser to be delivered etc and some (mostly new) asking if the laser had come --do you like it etc etc.
good Lord-- I hope it had arrived!
problem is-- the new post will be dated as new but the one before was way too old to revive.. so one needs to read a few more older posts in order to be NOT be contributing another necro .sssssssss
It would help if members would ALWAYS follow up and not leave us hanging-- if it was important to post then it is equally important to follow thru-- this can be especially annoying when it is a FS thread-- once sold and gone most good members would add SOLD to the parent post as well as adding SOLD or GONE etc to that posts title .. you must use 'Go Advance' to edit the title of thread.

''=='' one more thing(if I may) the better intro thread (in WELCOME) has a title like 'hello from Houston' etc instead of just 'Hello.' especially if the poster failed to add location into their profile. I am far from the anti=social type-- I have pride about having met in person >100 forum members--how many have you met??.. (w/o LEMS that number would be small)

hak

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I am still debating about posting in this thread about jet laser yamataka series stun gun. While there was significant thread drift some questions that were of interest to me were never answered. There does not seem to be any review of the yamataka and a rather dated review of a similar JetLaser dazzler (due to photobucket changing it's policy). Also some hint (that I can find no confirmation of) that JetLaser is no longer shipping these to the US. Also a lot of interesting stuff about how a stun gun makes sounds that alert birds/animals. Not to mention thread drift about interesting topics. In any case I am torn between posting in that thread (suppose to use the search function) and starting a new one.

Also wondering if there are other folks like me who don't live on dirt and have a boat that moves in any direction the wind blows. What do we do about location.

ragebot said:

Also wondering if there are other folks like me who don't live on dirt and have a boat that moves in any direction the wind blows. What do we do about location.

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Just use the location of your shooting range where you lase, you know I have never seen a shooting range with boat parking.

Laser dazzlers don't have a great reputation here. My thoughts are a laser should never be used as a weapon and that's what dazzlers are. Nonlethal, but still dangerous. If you feel you must use light to defend yourself, there are always high power LED flashlights. Those don't bring unwelcome publicity to lasers which is something we try to avoid here.

afaik only one other here owns a JL 'Yama' -- no reviews were done- I can guess it =had to do with the laser and exactly how 'legal 'it is to carry.. I have never carried mine in public..

there are makers of similar designs just not all the 'parts' and not so powerful.
I can try to answer any Qs via PM please..

paul1598419 said:

Laser dazzlers don't have a great reputation here. My thoughts are a laser should never be used as a weapon and that's what dazzlers are. Nonlethal, but still dangerous. If you feel you must use light to defend yourself, there are always high power LED flashlights. Those don't bring unwelcome publicity to lasers which is something we try to avoid here.

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Yeah.. and the bigger ones make a good club...
(police).

Jerry

paul1598419 said:

Laser dazzlers don't have a great reputation here. My thoughts are a laser should never be used as a weapon and that's what dazzlers are. Nonlethal, but still dangerous. If you feel you must use light to defend yourself, there are always high power LED flashlights. Those don't bring unwelcome publicity to lasers which is something we try to avoid here.

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Good comment, thanks. To a great extent that clears up a lot about the questions I had related to that thread.

Back in 1966/67 I was at Ft. Ord for AIT training and became aware of the US Army weapons research facility there, and the research they were doing on lasers as weapons. Even today, as far as I know, there are really no lasers the military employs in any number after well over 50 years of research.


While plenty of sifi stories seem to portray lasers as effective weapons my personal view of lasers as weapons is similar to that of 'flying cars'; something that have been promised longer than lasers as weapons yet still not a reality. I have no intention of using a laser for personal defense based on my understanding that there are much more effective choices to defend one's self.


One thing that a couple of posters here noted was that the stun gun function seemed to produce a noise that alerted/frightened animals, and maybe even people. Also included was a fairly bright flashlight with a flash mode, along with the dazzler. On a boat with limited storage multi function items are favored over single use items. So the Yamataka seemed like an item that could be used to scare birds off my mast head with both noise from the stun gun and the dazzler function, use as a stun gun as a last resort, use as a stun flashlight, and provide some signal function in an emergency situation.

Note I said 'seemed like'. It may be true, or more experienced folks might be able to shoot down the functions I attribute to the Yamataka. Perhaps my initial attraction to the Yamataka started with the first word in it's description; waterproof. But again as a boater I have seen many things described as waterproof that did not live up to their billing.



I had so many questions about the Yamataka that were not answered in the other thread and still do. But the bottom line is that all this may be moot if JetLaser does not ship this item to the US.