Not sure about stun batons ; but many farms use battery operated cattle prods ; and if a cattle prod can deter a bull , it can deter a coyote for sure....
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Not sure about stun batons ; but many farms use battery operated cattle prods ; and if a cattle prod can deter a bull , it can deter a coyote for sure....
I can't resist:
Last weekend I saw something on CGN that sparked my interest. The occasion was our 22nd anniversary and I was looking for a little something extra for my wife, Toni. What I came across was a 100,000-volt, stun baton. The effects of the baton were suppose to be short lived, with no long-term adverse affect on your assailant, allowing her adequate time to retreat to safety.... WAY TOO COOL! Long story short, I bought the device and brought it home. I loaded two triple-a batteries in the darn thing and pushed the button. Nothing! I was disappointed. I learned, however, that if I pushed the button AND pressed it against a metal surface at the same time; I'd get the blue arch of electricity darting back and forth between the prongs. Awesome!!! Unfortunately, I have yet to explain to Toni what that burn spot is on the face of her microwave. Okay, so I was home alone with this new toy, thinking to myself that it couldn't be all that bad with only two triple-a batteries,... right?
There I sat in my recliner, my cat Gracie looking on intently (trusting little soul) while I was reading the directions and thinking that I really needed to try this thing out on a flesh & blood moving target. I must admit I thought about zapping Gracie (for a fraction of a second) and thought better of it. She is such a sweet cat. But, if I was going to give this thing to my wife to protect herself against a mugger, I did want some assurance that it would work as advertised. Am I wrong? So, there I sat in a pair of shorts and a tank top with my reading glasses perched delicately on the bridge of my nose, directions in one hand, taser in another.
The directions said that a one-second burst would shock and disorient your assailant; a two-second burst was supposed to cause muscle spasms and a major loss of bodily control; a three-second burst would purportedly make your assailant flop on the ground like a fish out of water. Any burst longer than three seconds would be wasting the batteries. All the while I'm looking at this little device measuring about 5" long, less than 3/4 inch in circumference; pretty cute really and loaded with two itsy, bitsy triple-a batteries) thinking to myself, "no possible way!" What happened next is almost beyond description, but I'll do my best..... I'm sitting there alone, Gracie looking on with her head cocked to one side as to say, "don't do it master," reasoning that a one-second burst from such a tiny little ole thing couldn't hurt all that bad.... I decided to give myself a one-second burst just for the heck of it.
I touched the prongs to my naked thigh, pushed the button, and HOLY MOTHER, WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION@!@$$!% !@*!!! I'm pretty sure Jessie Ventura ran in through the side door, picked me up in the recliner, then body slammed us both on the carpet, over and over and over again. I vaguely recall waking up on my side in the fetal position, with tears in my eyes, body soaking wet, both nipples on fire, testicles nowhere to be found, with my left arm tucked under my body in the oddest position, and tingling in my legs. The cat was standing over me making meowing sounds I had never heard before, licking my face, undoubtedly thinking to herself, "do it again, do it again!" Note: If you ever feel compelled to "mug" yourself with a taser, one note of caution: there is no such thing as a one-second burst when you zap yourself. You will not let go of that thing until it is dislodged from your hand by a violent thrashing about on the floor. A three second burst would be considered conservative. SON-OF-A- ... that hurt like hell!!!
A minute or so later (I can't be sure, as time was a relative thing at that point), collected my wits (what little I had left), sat up and surveyed the landscape. My bent reading glasses were on the mantle of the fireplace. How did they get up there??? My triceps, right thigh and both nipples were still twitching. My face felt like it had been shot up with Novacaine, and my bottom lip weighed 88 lbs. I'm still looking for my testicles. I'm offering a significant reward for their safe return. Still in shock...
Now THAT was funny.
We used to zap ourselves with 100 000 volt taser in high school, it hurt, a bit, longer you held it more it would hurt. but in a fight i think it would just make the bad guy mad.
if that was my dog being attacked the Stun baton would be going up the Pit Bulls ass.Originally Posted by cyberspace
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Man, speak of what you know. We didn't use them to deter bulls, that's damn near stupid as I've ever heard. They're used to herd cattle in pens and chutes. A bull with free range would walk through one of those batons like nothing.
Junkies have tracks and that's icky.:
Sometimes you see a thread and just before you click the link you "ho, this is gonna be good...". This is one of those thread.
A friend of mine once tried a 1,000,000 volts system that was installed on a briefcase. The handle could become electrified with a remote control if you got your briefcase stolen. So he tried it on himself. According to him, every muscle in his body got tense, so he clenched to the briefcase handle while doing a nazi salute, but the funny part is allegedly his saliva gland compressed or something so he spit what seemed like a gallon of saliva.
Unfortunately, most animals have much, much different pain threshold than mens. Their fur also protect them a bit from the discharge of a taser/stun baton. I wouldn't rely on something like that to defend myself against a bear, that's for sure. A pitbull, a rotweiller or some other kind of attack dog? Neither. The pain area of their brain kind of shuts down when they engage in a fight; some animals won't ever feel any pain at all until they're dead. Or at least until the fight is over.
Fortunately for you, coyotes are wimp. They mostly run away from humans if you just yell at them.
Maybe you should speak of what you know ; we have used cattle prods to move bulls many times ...maybe you should get a bit more farm experience before commenting on something that you obviously know nothing about...
That boiled my blood watching that. I was taking care of my brothers schnauzer one weekend, and some dip#### pitbull owner was walking his dog off its leash, and it charged like mad at my brothers dog. I immediately picked my brothers dog up and turned my back on the pitbull as to not let it get its hands on the dog. The owner comes waddling over and says to me "it's always the little ones causing problems eh?" If I wasn't afraid of putting my brothers dog down, I would have punched him in the throat, and continued doing so until he stopped moving. I tossed a few expletives at his fat ass and waited until he was out of sight before I put my brothers dog back down.
I also had a nice huge tear in the back of my goose jacket that I only noticed when I got home. 250$ down the drain...
And no one in that crowed had a knife? I would have GLADLY stabbed the #### out of that thing...
My Jack Russell was attacked last summer by a Pit Bull, nearly killed him. He had to get 30 stitches and I think the only thing that saved him from dying was me getting in-between my dog and the Pit bull. I hate the dam breed and they should be banned outright in Canada.
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