What is the Benefit of a Pulsing Laser? (LaserMax)

[PoweredByGlock]

I was really sold on getting a LaserMax unit, until I saw one at the range today. Personally I can't stand the pulsing laser. I'd love to have an internal unit, but seems I will be forced to get the Crimson Trace model.

Why did LaserMax design their unit that way? And if the answer is "to save battery life" I think that's retarded...

[LaserMax Guy]

The human animal is a hunter by nature, thats why both our eyes are in front of our heads and our ears dont swivel around like a deer. Being hunters we are attracted to motion more than color. The Lasermax pulsating sight is designed to stimulate the brain to catch your attention quicker. Just as a police car/ambulance light rack has moving lights our pulsating laser will catch your attention 3.5 times faster than one that is stationary. One of the best things about the pulsating light is that you can put it on to cover a target say 10 meters away and still scan the room to look for aditional threats, The pulsating light allows your peripheral vision to still see the blinking light while your eyes scan the area.
Amother big plus for the pulsating beam is for law enforcement, many depts use the Taser for a non lethal means of taking down bad guys, The Taser has a steady laser as a targeting device. Officers using our pulsating laser do not have to worry about whom is covering whom as they can easly distinguish between who was non lethal and who has deadly force.

[Dingus]

It is to hypnotize your opponent.;)

[RayB]

Thanks, LMG, for the lucid and informative post!

I can attest that the pulsing beam is far easier to acquire, and reacquire in a complex background. :freak:

Retardation not withstanding, the on/off circuitry does extend the battery life too! ;)

--Ray

[03RangerXLT]

Originally posted by LaserMax Guy

Amother big plus for the pulsating beam is for law enforcement, many depts use the Taser for a non lethal means of taking down bad guys, The Taser has a steady laser as a targeting device. Officers using our pulsating laser do not have to worry about whom is covering whom as they can easly distinguish between who was non lethal and who has deadly force.

A good point. An officer from another gun board I frequent related a story on how he was covering a suspect with his leathal force option that was not equiped with a pulsing laser, but a steady-on laser, and his partner was covering with the Taser. His partner decided to use the Taser device and didn't realise that teh laser on his force option wasn't working properly. He ended up catching teh suspect partially in the face with the Taser dart from how the story went, bcause he thought his point of aim was lower than it really was.

[RayB]

Just south of me, in a neighboring community, cops tasered a guy while pepper spraying him. Long story short--his head caught fire! :shocked:

He is, of course, suing...

--Ray

[Stopdropnroll]

If a pulsing beam will "catch your attention quicker", why didn't Taser incorporate them in their products?

(....or Surefire, Streamlight, Pentagon Light, Crimson Trace, Insight Technology, Arotec, Glock, et al others.)

In the last 6 years as being a firearms instructor I have owned Lasermax, Insight Technology, and Crimson Trace units. I shoot and train with guns regularly. My personal opinion is that a steady on, not blinking, laser it easier for me to see, track the movement of and use.

It seems logical to me that the blinking laser is more likely a reasonable energy conservation solution to being restricted to a battery compartment space that is no bigger than the diameter of a recoil rod. Having it blink would make the battery last longer as it is now off during part of the time it is activated.

SDnR ;)