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Yup. Without the spread it's not nearly as effective. It just hurts but you can definitely fight through it if you're determined.
Used as a contact weapon the best way to describe it is like touching the spark plug on a lawn mower. It does hurt like hell. To use a Taser to disable someone they have to use the probes. Then its a whole different game. When these first hit there was no fighting through it. If they made contact the person just fell down. Bunch of really high dopers died and of course media kept saying the Taser killed, which it did not. I have started to see a few video's last many years though of people actually shot with a Taser who it did not drop. I have suspected for a while that they may have "toned them down" due to the dope heads dieing. If this is what they did its a real shame. The Taser was a great tool when they first hit. You could get someone down and in cuffs without beating them to a pulp. Which was why media hated them. They wanted the video of scum being beaten to a pulp. Its been scrubbed to its hard to find but Taser did a demo video when they first hit. HUGE Brahma Bull. They tase him and he goes down, feet strait out and can't move. As soon as the juice stops he jumps up and hits the fence HARD. He is pissed off. PETA types of course were all hair on fire over it.
Gotta quote the sleepy guy, to give it the extra zing, lol.
Tasers are pain compliance in "drive stun" mode. As noted, you need the spread of barbs to have neuromuscular incapacitation (NMI). A firearm in drive stun...well, we saw that is something completely different. This is why I'm not big on the zappers they market, usually to ladies. A) you need to be too close B) they don't work against a motivated attacker
I think that was a Taseer designed for livestock. At the end of the video there is a caution about using it on two-legged critters.Used as a contact weapon the best way to describe it is like touching the spark plug on a lawn mower. It does hurt like hell. To use a Taser to disable someone they have to use the probes. Then its a whole different game. When these first hit there was no fighting through it. If they made contact the person just fell down. Bunch of really high dopers died and of course media kept saying the Taser killed, which it did not. I have started to see a few video's last many years though of people actually shot with a Taser who it did not drop. I have suspected for a while that they may have "toned them down" due to the dope heads dieing. If this is what they did its a real shame. The Taser was a great tool when they first hit. You could get someone down and in cuffs without beating them to a pulp. Which was why media hated them. They wanted the video of scum being beaten to a pulp. Its been scrubbed to its hard to find but Taser did a demo video when they first hit. HUGE Brahma Bull. They tase him and he goes down, feet strait out and can't move. As soon as the juice stops he jumps up and hits the fence HARD. He is pissed off. PETA types of course were all hair on fire over it.
That's it. I forgot it was a model they were making for things like Bear. Never have actually seen one so not sure if they just promptly stopped selling them or what. Probably afraid people would buy them and use them on people.
Sometimes the human body can take an amazing amount of punishment before its says "I'm out of here".
Something like a Carhartt jacket and other layers of clothing keeps the probes far enough away from the body that they may not make the connections for NMI (Neuromuscular incapacitation). We had a guy with MH issues who made himself a set of "medieval body armor" out of cardboard and duct tape to avoid Taser probes...it worked. It was a cross between the Tin Man, Sir Lancelot, and a refrigerator box.
This is why I carry salt, a zippo lighter and dress like a windmill.
