Its making me look for my old sap. Got about six months of use out of it before being told to stop carrying/chatting with it.
I sure could have used it the day I busted my hand all up on the side of that drunk's head…:(
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Luckily I got several years in with them. Best LE impact weapon out there-period. Luckily, even after the saps went away, we could still use full size metal flashlights as impact weapons. They were very effective. The biggest difference was the saps tended not to draw blood while the lights made a huge mess when you zapped a dude in the head.
Saps we're quieter than kel lights and there was no bulb to break.
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That was something that nobody (in authority at my agency) could ever explain to me- why was a sap bad but the aluminum flashlights or a PR-24 okay-... and I asked more than once.
Like you say, cracking a miscreant across the gourd with an SL-20 or equivalent ALWAYS left a big cut that many times required stiches; PR-24s or straight sticks not so much, but often enough. But the saps usually left just a big bruise; particularly the ones without the leather "slap pad". These were referred to as a "cosh", I believe. But the "slap pad" version was easier to tuck into one's hip pocket...;)
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The SL-20s and -35s were pretty hardy in that regard... as long as you remembered to turn the thing OFF before impact. If you left it on, the lamp was gone, every time. I blew several lamp modules this way (two in one night, on several occasions) before I figured it out... and at $20 a pop, it was an expensive lesson.
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The poly version was almost as tough as the aluminum but didn't have the tendency to open someone up when you gave 9 from the sky.
Bulb? Years back, we had one of the local hot heads all sauced up on a Friday night giving grief to the LEOs and as they were trying to put him in the back of the squad car he started acting out and one of the guys gave him a tap on the noggin and broke the head assembly clean off the tube. The drunk was just stunned for a second or two and went back to fighting.
Guilty pleasure: still sometimes slip a slapjack in my pocket when I go to Wally World. Took a few years for our patrol pants w slapjack pockets to be phased out.
I need a svelte .45 Mountain, too; our BUG/OD approved list doesn't include .44-cals sometimes pack the 57-2, but like the way the 255 STs smack things from my big fat Vaquero.